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SEXUALITY

Seven years after Spain's first gay weddings, justices to approve law

Julio M. Lázaro Madrid

Constitutional Court due to decide on Popular Party appeal against flagship legislation this week

Gay Pride packs in the crowds but some ask what it means these days

Maria Comes Fayos / El País Madrid

Around one million on celebratory parade in capital but some activists argue that equality is not yet assured

EURO CRISIS

European leaders reach agreement on direct recapitalization of banks

El País Madrid

Stock market sees biggest rise since May 2010 on back of good news. The deal is a personal victory for Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Italy’s Mario Monti

Quick decisions needed to shore up Spanish economy, says PM

Miguel González / Agencies Brussels

Rajoy tells EU leaders they “must be conscious this is a money issue” but Brussels unlikely to change banking aid rule

LEGAL SCANDAL

Audit Court to open inquiry into ex-chief justice’s travel expenses

José Yoldi Madrid

European lawyers group demanding Carlos Dívar reimburse public funds spent on trips

After Dívar scandal, watchdog prepares humble "austerity plan"

María Fabra Castellón

CGPJ members spent over 800,000 euros on trips last year

Supreme Court chief justice steps down over expenses-paid weekend trips

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

Flunking students will have to return grants

J. A. Aunión Madrid

Latest austerity move will leave family-income qualification for scholarships intact but punish academic underachievement

LITERARY LEGACY

Miguel Hernández archive: a victim of politics or economics?

Ezequiel Moltó Alicante

Family of Civil War poet accuses Popular Party-controlled Elche City Hall of reneging on a deal and moving the legacy

ENERGY COSTS

Spaniards' electricity bills rise 70 percent in six years

Santiago Carcar Madrid

Companies that make up the electricity sector in Spain are running a deficit of 24 billion euros

MEDIA

Telemadrid anchor voted new head of news at RTVE

Rosario G. Gómez Madrid

Somoano will replace Fran Llorente in crucial role of setting news agenda for national bulletin

EUROVEGAS BID

Esperanza Aguirre speaks to Michael Leven (center) of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. / Sergio Barrenechea (EFE)

PP will soon have to clear smoke on whether it will change tobacco law

El País Madrid

Madrid government wants smoking ban lifted to attract EuroVegas cash cow

Final decision on EuroVegas to be announced in September

El País Madrid

Las Vegas Sands Corporation delegation arrives in Spain for new round of meetings. Both Madrid and Barcelona still in the running for 27-billion-euro site, say promoters

ECONOMY

Bank of Spain sees recession speeding up on “increased risk aversion”

Álvaro Romero Madrid

Private consumption falling at fastest rate for over a decade

Government considering hike in reduced rate of value added tax

El País Madrid 1

Spaniards could pay up to 18 percent on goods and services that fall under reduced bracket

Rajoy warns of “difficult” reforms still to come

Manuel V. Gómez Madrid

Employers association calls for further government action, but PM avoids going into policy specifics

Rajoy's jump onto the global stage

BANKING CRISIS

Bankia is not worth nothing; the reality is much worse than that

Miguel Jiménez Madrid 6

Savings bank conglomerate accounts reveal true value of minus 13.63 billion euros

Novacaixagalicia chairman throws in the towel under court pressure

María Fernández / Miguel Jiménez Vigo / Madrid

Eighty-year-old Fernández Gayoso leaves under a cloud of inflated severance packages

Moody’s downgrades the entire Spanish banking sector

El País Madrid

Agency “views positively” measures to shore up system as Santander is rated one notch higher than Spain’s sovereign debt

Madrid makes formal request for banking-sector bailout

Alejandro Bolaños Madrid 6

Letter by De Guindos does not specify total sum required, but minister accepts that credit will be channeled to state body

CORRUPTION ON TRIAL

Songbird's cash-laundering trial opens

Francisco Perez Málaga

Isabel Pantoja accused of stashing away 1.8 million euros in Marbella kickbacks

Former Barça striker Eto'o charged with tax evasion

Player thought to have dodged 3.5 million euros in taxes on earnings while at the Catalan club

Laureano Oubiña, photographed in 2011 at a jail in Palencia. / MABEL GARCÍA

Freedom for a Galician kingpin

Elisa Lois Villagarcía de Arousa

Drug trafficker and would-be country squire Laureano Oubiña Piñeiro is about to be let out of jail

CORRUPTION IN COURT

Fabra case judge turns to judicial watchdog for protection

María Fabra Castellón

Castellón High Court is pressuring for dismissal after eight years of legal delays, magistrate claims

TELECOMS

Telefónica seeking 850m euros in damages from Mexico

Miguel Jiménez Madrid

Spanish company claims decision to lower network-hiring fees unfairly penalizes its progress

THE PROSTITUTION DEBATE

Mayor Sonia Martínez talks to one of the prostitutes in her town. / PERE DURAN (EL PAÍS)

La Jonquera: A supermarket for sex

Antía Castedo Girona

The mayor of the Girona border town is fighting a losing battle against prostitution. Municipalities are seeking out creative methods to curb the selling of sex on their streets

TOWARD THE END OF ETA

Terrorist Antón Troitiño back in custody after arrest in London

El País Madrid

Authorities in Britain also arrested Lerín Sánchez Belea, wanted since 2007

"Countdown for outlawing of Bildu has begun," warns PP spokesman

Agencies / Luis R. Aizpeolea

Interior Ministry to closely monitor activities of Basque radical left parties. Bildu spokeswoman warns government not to return to "recipes of the past"

Politics or the end of Spain? Sortu ruling polarizes opinion

El País Madrid

Left greets decision with cautious optimism while Popular Party slams Constitutional Court ruling

Constitutional Court legalizes radical Basque party Sortu by one vote

SPENDING CUTS

Regions to get list of drugs no longer covered by social security

El País Madrid

Health officials advised to eliminate around 450 pharmaceuticals from state medical program

CRIME

Princess Letizia's sister targeted by data thieves, police sting reveals

Jesús Duva Madrid

Criminal network included cellphone executives and civil servants, selling information on 3,000 targets per month

SOCCER SCAM

Liga clubs duped by “fake sheikh” investor scam

El País Madrid

Getafe and Espanyol among teams taken in by promises of financial support and a Brazilian waiter

Más información

Hundreds evacuated as Valencia wildfire rages

Regional government claims it has sufficient resources to fight blaze despite cutbacks

A view of the blaze which started in Cortes de Pallás and Andilla, inland from the city of Valencia. / CARLES FRANCESC

TRANS-IBERIAN BLOG

Welcome to the Cañada

A Jane´s Walk through Madrid's notorious shanty trail reveals six sectors of complex reality

LATIN AMERICA

Paraguay ousts Lugo after brief trial

El País Madrid

OAS to send delegation to Asunción as landlocked nation finds itself ostracized

Mothers of stolen babies are terrorists, says Videla

El País Madrid

Former dictator protesting "unjust sentence" given to him

Argentina braces for transport stoppage

El País Madrid

Bolivia reaches pact with striking police officers after five days of violence

Uruguay reveals plan to legalize marijuana

Alejandro Rebossio Buenos Aires

Proposal criticized by the opposition and addiction treatment centers

Mexico readies to welcome back PRI

Salvador Camarena / Mari Luz Peinado / Luis Prados Mexico City

Peña Nieto leading presidential race

FEATURES

CONFLICT IN SYRIA

The El Príncipe neighbourhood in Ceuta. / FIDEL RASO (EL PAÍS)

Jihadist fighters sent from Ceuta

José María Irujo

Rachid Wahbi joined the Syrian resistance, following in the footsteps of men from the enclave who have spent a decade fighting for their Muslim brothers

MINERS' PROTESTS

The price of coal

Javier Cuartas Oviedo

Miners have been on strike for three weeks, protesting cuts in a sector on its last legs

Wives of miners bring demonstrations to the Senate

ROAD SAFETY

The scene of the accident that killed Marta Jorgoso. / ALFREDO AGUILAR (IDEAL)

Spending cuts that can kill

Álvaro de Cózar Madrid

Lower investment in highways sees the risk of fatal traffic accidents increase. Repair firms rail against drastic cutbacks, while government denies any great change

"We must alter the profile: seniors and women are having more accidents"

Patricia R. Blanco Madrid

The director general of the DGT highway safety authority María Seguí talks about her policies

JUDICIAL SCANDAL

Former Chief Justice Carlos Dívar leaves the Supreme Court. / ULY MARTÍN (EL PAÍS)

The injudicious judge

El País

Carlos Dívar resigned over allegations of misusing his expense account. The former chief justice was brought down by his failure to gauge the public mood