MADRID (AP) — A small sport popular in Spain’s northern Basque Country has stirred up a political controversy that triggered court action and fanned the region's long-held feelings of nationalism.

The land of the Basque people, split between Spain and France, is a "nation without a state” – left off the map when they drew Europe's national borders. Basque Country is often left out of travel ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In a victory for millions of Spaniards who speak a language other than Spanish, the European nation's Parliament allowed its national legislators to use Catalan, Basque and ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people from Spain's Basque Country joined hands to form a human chain running some 202 kilometers (125 miles) on Sunday to call for the right to hold a regional ...

Near a fishing village on the Iberian Peninsula, someone had painted on a concrete wall in big blue letters: WELCOME TO THE BASQUE COUNTRY. Below that, in even bigger all caps: THIS IS NOT SPAIN NOR ...

The Basque separatist group Eta in Spain is set to make a historic move Friday by giving up its bomb-making equipment and guns. The group has used the arms as part of a series of attacks aimed at ...

Most of the characteristics that distinguish the Basques of Spain are mysterious. In vain, linguists have studied their tongue-trilling language, still spoken by a million Basques, for similarity to ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Spain's Basque Country on Thursday adopted a declaration of self-determination, stepping up a push for more powers and potentially creating a new political headache for ...