The remains of Spain's former dictator, Francisco Franco, were exhumed today 44 years after his death. He had been buried in a national monument that was built in the 1950s by thousands of his ...

The remains of Spain's former dictator General Francisco Franco have been exhumed in a controversial move that has divided opinion in Spain for decades. The Spanish government announced this week that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Forensic scientists have begun the exhumation of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War. Their bodies will be exhumed from ...

The Spanish cabinet approved a decree Friday that would allow the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco to be exhumed and removed from the memorial near Madrid where they have lain since he died ...

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If the exhumation could not be stopped, Franco's heirs had wanted his remains to be moved to the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid, where his daughter is buried. But the government feared the central ...

SAN LORENZO DE EL ESCORIAL, Spain (Reuters) - The Valley of the Fallen outside Madrid seems peaceful enough on a sunny spring day but, with national elections just around the corner, its distinction ...

Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended the exhumation of the remains of dictator Francisco Franco while it considers an appeal from his family against the move, which divides opinion in a country ...

Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the green light for the government to remove the remains of Francisco Franco from a grandiose state mausoleum, rejecting an appeal against it by the late dictator ...

Flowers lie on the tomb of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco at El Valle de los Caidos in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, outside Madrid MADRID (Reuters) - The family of Spain's late former fascist ...

Exhumation of victims of the Spanish Civil War at the 'Valley of the Fallen', near Madrid MADRID (Reuters) -Forensic scientists have begun exhuming the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War ...