Spain
Moroccans to protest royal pardon for Spanish pedophile
RABAT - Moroccans outraged by a royal pardon for a Spanish pedophile serving a 30-year sentence for raping 11 children in the North African kingdom are planning a protest in Rabat on Friday.
Spain's Rajoy says he was wrong to trust treasurer in party funding scandal
MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy apologized on Thursday for mishandling a major corruption scandal, but denied he or his center-right People's Party accepted illegal payments and rejected opposition calls to step down. | Video
Moroccans to protest against royal pardon for Spanish pedophile
RABAT - Moroccans outraged by a royal pardon for a Spanish pedophile serving a 30-year sentence for raping 11 children in the North African kingdom are planning a protest in Rabat on Friday.
Analysis: ECB lending revamp risks more pain in Spain
FRANKFURT - Spanish banks risk their troubles being compounded by a jump in the cost of lifeblood funding from the European Central Bank.
SEC sues ex-Santander executive, ex-Spanish judge for insider trading
NEW YORK - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a former Banco Santander SA executive and a former Spanish judge with insider trading over a proposed takeover of Potash Corp of Saskatchewan Inc on which the Spanish bank had given investment banking advice.
Spanish train driver was on the phone at time of crash
MADRID - The driver of the train that derailed in northwestern Spain last week, killing 79 people, was talking on the phone with state train operator Renfe at the time of the accident, a court said on Tuesday after analyzing the train's data recording devices.
Spain to mourn train crash victims; driver freed pending trial
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain - Spain was to hold a memorial service on Monday for the 79 people who died in the country's worst rail disaster in decades, hours after the driver of the train was freed pending trial on charges of reckless homicide. | Video
Spain's banks face uphill battle despite dramatic profits boost
LONDON/MADRID - The dramatic earnings turnaround boasted by four Spanish banks obscures the uphill battle they still face to contain bad debts, grow their businesses and increase shareholder value against the backdrop of one of Europe's most challenging economies.
Driver of derailed Spanish train charged with 79 counts of homicide
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain - The driver of a Spanish high-speed train that derailed and killed 79 people was released pending trial on charges of reckless homicide, a judge ruled on Sunday night. | Video
Spain's Socialists all but level with ruling conservatives: poll
MADRID - Spain's opposition Socialists have all but drawn level in the polls with the ruling centre-right for the first time since elections in 2011, a survey showed, as a corruption scandal erodes the government's popularity.
Central bank pro-growth policies boost oil, stocks
NEW YORK - Shares, the dollar and crude oil all rose on Thursday, with the benchmark S&P 500 stock index topping 1,700 for the first time, as central banks in the euro zone and Britain joined the Federal Reserve in keeping their easy monetary policies intact for now.

