MADRID/MILAN: Spain checked around 200 travelers arriving from Italy at the country’s six largest airports on the first day of border controls reintroduced following a dispute with Italy over irregular migration. Spain’s Interior Ministry carried out checks on a total of 199 people on 12 flights from Italy to airports in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao, Alicante and Valencia, it said late on Saturday.

MADRID: Spain on Friday threatened Italy with countermeasures if Rome did not lift this week its suspension of the free-travel Schengen agreement, introduced after the mass…

Spain has threatened reciprocal measures against Italy over border controls. Rome imposed these checks after a migrant influx into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Spain called…