Lucía Benavides

Doctors are using conscientious objection to turn down patients. Religious anti-abortion clinics are springing up. Advocates say abortion rights are under threat again in Romania.

Coronavirus cases in Spain are on the rise again. But hospitalizations are down compared with the peak of the pandemic, and patients are younger and have milder symptoms.

After mounting pressure from parents, the Spanish government announced last week that starting Sunday, children could leave the house for one hour each day.

Under Spain's state of emergency, kids aren't allowed outside their homes. Many have not been out since mid-March. Some local laws would loosen the restrictions, but need central government approval.

Despite the increase, Spain's figures suggest the rate of new infections has begun to slow, according to a spokeswoman for the government's health emergency center.

Thousands of medical workers now have COVID-19 in Spain, one of the countries hardest-hit by the disease.

The Spanish military found residents of some care homes "completely abandoned" and "dead in their beds," Spain's defense minister announced Monday. Spain has more than 39,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

When media called him one of the few actors of color nominated for an Oscar, many Spaniards mocked the term or got angry.

While many Catalans are outraged at the central government's crackdown on the independence movement, the huge demonstrations have obscured deep divisions in Catalan society.

Thousands of protesters shut down the airport and clashed with riot police in northeastern Spain after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to lengthy prison terms.