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FINANCIAL CRISIS

Murcia follows Valencia in seeking bailout

Pressure builds up for Spain to request full rescue

Markets punish Spain with record premium after Valencia seeks aid

El País Madrid 1

Region is first to ask for emergency financing from the newly created LFA liquidity mechanism

BUDGET CUTS

Popular Party stands alone in approving draconian austerity drive

El País Madrid 1

Protests mount against tax hikes and spending cuts slated to reduce Spain’s budget by 65 billion euros

"No money” to pay public sector workers without tax hike: minister

Anabel Díez Madrid 2

Spain’s risk premium jumps after Montoro says that civil servants know wages depend on tax hikes

ENVIRONMENT

King Juan Carlos poses during his Botswana safari. / Rann Safaris (EL PAÍS)

King removed from WWF post

El País Madrid

Ecologists vote overwhelmingly to remove monarch after Botswana hunting trip

Malformation of fetus will no longer be reason for abortion: minister

Gallardón plans to remove pregnancy termination on demand

HOSTAGE CRISIS

Ainhoa Fernández de Rincón and Enric Gonyalons, the Spanish aid workers freed in Mali after being held hostage for nine months, arrive at Torrejón de Ardoz airbase in Madrid. / Gustavo Cuevas (EFE)

Prisoners exchanged for freed aid workers

Foreign minister said that everything had been done "with absolute respect for national and international law"

Spaniards freed by terrorists in Mali after nine months

Miguel González / Agencies Moscow / Bamako

Aid workers were snatched last October in Western Sahara refugee camp by Al Qaeda-linked group

INDUSTRY

Spain’s rail industry set to take a new route next year

El País Madrid

Cabinet agrees to open train service to private operators

New Bank of Spain chief criticizes his predecessors

Agencies / Andrew Sim Madrid

Luis María Linde confirms that toxic financial assets will be deposited in a single “bad bank”

LONDON OLYMPICS

Gasol to carry flag at Games

Basketball star replaces injured Nadal after spurned yachtsmen refuse honor on the rebound

FORMULA 1

Fernando Alonso receives the traditional champagne dousing after his German GP win. / DIMITAR DILKOFF (AFP)

Ferrari poles apart in Germany

Alonso cruises to victory in improving car and extends championship lead

Cycling champ Sánchez unable to defend Olympic title

El País Madrid

Under-suspicion steeplechaser Mullera withdrawn vy Spanish Olympic Committee

LAWSUIT

Court overturns damages ruling for asbestos sufferers

Barcelona factory owner Uralita will not now have to pay out 3.9 million euros to 45 victims

Case finally closed on 1995 terrorist kidnap victim Publio Cordón

Three former GRAPO members detained after 17-year kidnapping investigation ends but body still missing in France

AUSTERITY SPAIN

Government cuts to dependency law "most barbaric of all measures"

Plans for 15 percent funding slash come after pension loss and budget reductions

HEALTHCARE

Doctors unite against “immoral” no-residency patient decree

Physicians’ society encourages conscientious objection to government’s rules restricting care for immigrants

POLITICS

Andrea Fabra, pictured in Congress on Tuesday. / GORKA LEJARCEGI

Foul-mouthed PP lawmaker apologizes for jobless jibe

“I made a mistake,” says daughter of controversial party boss

Madrid government delegate set upon by anti-austerity protestors

Cifuentes forced to take shelter inside restaurant after demonstrators shouted and spat at her

RECESSION

Economic crisis sparks growing exodus of Spaniards

Over 200,000 immigrants move on to boost massive outflow

Palace austerity: royal family assumes public service pay cut

Mábel Galaz Madrid

King Juan Carlos and Prince Felipe to receive 7.1 percent less

MEDIA

Telemadrid employees staged a protest against planned labor force cuts in June. / Álvaro García

Regional public broadcasters under threat from crisis domino effect

Bankrupt Telemadrid on the brink of abyss after Valencia RTV collapse earlier this week

Police corral Channel 9 studios to quash redundancy protests

El País Valencia

Workers storm building after announcement of 1,295 layoffs

HEALTH

Vanesa Pastor poses for the cameras with her newborn son, Mario, and doctors. / ALBERTO ESTÉVEZ (EFE)

Recovered cancer patient has child after removal of both ovaries

Jaime Prats Valencia

Baby boy born after groundbreaking oocyte-freezing procedure

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Spain's defense chief calls Chávez "a great friend"

El País Madrid

Minister Morenés justifies sale of arms to Venezuela, even though country “is no friend of the United States”

CRIME

Penal reform to deprive offenders of freedom after term ends

Jesús Duva Madrid

Tougher sentences being drawn up by justice minister for major crimes such as terrorism and sex offenses

POLICE

Cops versus cops on the cocaine trail

Jesús García Barcelona

National Police enters Catalan Mossos' HQ in search of recorded conversations

COAST LAW

Owners of these luxury properties on Empuriabrava's canals in Girona province were among those facing expropriation. / PERE DURÁN

Beachfront home amnesty extended to 75 years

Government reform brings relief to foreign owners but environmentalists warn of further costal damage

Más información

Gift of a lifetime: Colom hands over image archive

Photographer donates his life's work to National Art Museum of Catalonia

An image from Colom's show El Carrer, comprising photos taken in Barcelona's Barrio Chino from 1958 to 1960. /

Bologna Universities: All work and no play?

A British student's shattered illusions after a grueling year in Spain

LATIN AMERICA

A man walks past a branch of British bank HSBC in Mexico City. / TOMAS BRAVO (REUTERS)

HSBC shipped billions to US on behalf of Mexico's drug cartels

El País Madrid

Anti-money laundering controls need to be tightened, says Mexican regulator in wake of massive scandal

"I don't fear being called before the Hague court; I acted within the law"

Mexican president Felipe Calderón defends his record in office, blaming the spiraling violence in the country on a cartel turf war

Uribe, right, at Santos' inauguration in 2010. / RODRIGO ARANGUA (AFP)

Fight between Uribe and Santos splits Colombia's conservatives

Andrea Peña Bogota

Former president goes beyond regular Twitter attacks to create alternative electoral platform

Officers held for murdering father of Chile's former leader

Rocío Montes Santiago

Circumstances behind the murder of General Bachelet finally cleared up after 38 years

EDITOR'S PICK

EXHIBITION

The hidden side of anime

Javier Molina Madrid

Madrid exhibition showcases creativity in Japanese film

Making drama out of a crisis - and a dilapidated apartment

Javier Molina Madrid

La Casa de la Portera has reinvigorated the capital's theater scene overnight

GASTRONOMY

The chefs' top 'chiringuitos'

Ferran Adrià and other big names choose their favorite beach bars

Keeping 'chufa' rooted on the sidewalks of Madrid

Three shops in the city are still making traditional 'horchata'

MUSIC

"I used to be a really bad singer"

Lino Portela Valencia

Julio Iglesias can't slow down

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

More danger for the coastline

The new bill tends to the exact opposite of the “environmental protection” it proclaims

OPINION

The Stendhal vice

Our addiction to reading would not exist without the habit of perpetual writing

EDITORIAL

Rajoy’s siege mentality

Despite its poor results so far, the government refuses to debate solutions to the economic crisis

OPINION

Garden of delights

Spain’s ‘modern ruins’ will serve as reminder of human folly on a gigantic scale for decades to come

Nice if you can get it

Toni García Barcelona

A legal marijuana tasting in Barcelona serves as the stage for the Spanish launch of a Howard Marks biopic

Movie theaters will not close in protest at VAT hike

Hopes are pinned on talks with the Treasury

This week's movie releases

Nick Funnell Madrid

Christopher Nolan's latest Batman installment vies with the messy complexity of ‘Margaret’

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