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rising Poverty

Andalusia to guarantee three meals a day for poor schoolchildren

Manuel Planelles Seville 1

Socialist-led regional administration includes help for seniors in 16-million-euro "food solidarity" budget for 2013

PP's HIDDEN FINANCES

Popular Party paid Aznar bonuses as entertainment allowances

María Fernández / Fernando J. Pérez

Monthly payments also made to other top PP officials were subject to tax

Bárcenas ‘cleaned up’ illegal PP donations in official accounts

FINANCE

Bankia has 300,000 clients locked into hybrid products

Íñigo de Barrón

Arbitration process for bank customers to take six months

Holders of Bankia hybrid instruments take huge hit

El País Madrid 1

Investors face losses of up to 70 percent as Orderly Bank Restructuring Fund unveils sharply discounted prices for preferred shares

Union calls for swap of Bankia preferred shares to be halted

EVICTIONS

PP enrages Mortgage Platform after ditching measures from legislation

Anabel Díez / El País Madrid

Ruling party uses majority to pass draft law lacking suggestions from popular proposal

The Wedding Banquet (1623) by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625).

Prado leak damages Brueghel

Borja Hermoso

An 1623 painting by the Flemish artist was among 10 works affected by dripping water in the storerooms

PUBLIC FINANCES

Andalusia is the region with the most indebted town and city halls

Jesús Sérvulo González Madrid

Madrid’s debt jumped last year as it borrowed to settle suppliers’ bills

Portuguese crisis

Portugal announces across-the-board spending cuts of €800m

Antonio Jiménez Barca / Agencies Lisbon

Cutbacks to compensate for Constitutional Court’s decision to throw out other austerity measures

Yield on Portuguese one-year bill rises

economy

Lagarde: Spain needs more time to cut public deficit

Agencies Madrid

IMF managing director points to weak growth and high unemployment as causes for greater concern

Spanish firms among the most indebted in Europe, IMF says

Amanda Mars Washington

Agency warns Spain’s risk premium could jump again if economy remains weak and reforms are not implemented

PUBLIC FINANCES

Treasury’s borrowing costs fall to levels of 2010

El País / AGENCIES Madrid

Debt-management arm of Economy Ministry exceeds issue target at bond auction

ROYAL SCANDAL

Treasury ordered to turn over Princess Cristina’s tax returns

Judge wants to determine if King Juan Carlos’s daughter may have profited from Nóos funds

Marcelo Gurruchaga, pictured with his wife, who may have died during a liposuction procedure carried out by the Alicante vet.

The grisly tale of the Alicante vet who cremated his own wife

Joaquín Gil 1

Marcelo Gurruchaga is suspected of murder, but with no body that is hard to prove

VENEZUELAN ELECTION

Spain draws line under diplomatic spat with Venezuela over recount

Miguel González / El País Madrid

Foreign Ministry statement recognizes Maduro as winner of controversial presidential election, ahead of joint EU declaration

BOSTON MARATHON ATTACK

Pressure cooker used in Boston bombings came from Spain

Yolanda Monge Boston 6

Authorities find lid of a Fagor model on building roof

Ministry sacks diplomat in Boston for closing consulate after bombings

EP / El País Madrid

Pablo Sánchez-Terán advised families to call hospitals in US city to locate their loved ones

HEALTHCARE

Laura Canabal with a photograph of her brother, Luis. / Carlos Rosillo (EL PAÍS)

Heart patient died after nine months on waiting list in León

Emilio de Benito Madrid

Luis Canabal had been wrongly classified as a lower priority case

Madrid greenlights privatization
of six hospitals

José Marcos Madrid

PP administration stipulates staff must be retained but concessionaires can fix contract conditions

Ashley Madison apologizes to Queen Sofía over risqué ad

Natalia Junquera Madrid

Dating agency claims that it “deeply regrets” using an image of the royal matriarch in a lover’s pose

Iker Rodrigo Basterretxea (circled) at the homage to ETA leader 'Thierry' last Friday. / ALFREDO ALDAI (EFE)

High Court to probe homage to deceased ETA leader in Bizkaia

El País Bilbao

'Abertzale' member bailed on glorifying terrorism charge

HALLOWEEN TRAGEDY

Lawyers of Madrid Arena victims demand promoter return to jail

El País Bilbao

New evidence has surfaced in investigation into death of five young partygoers

“I have a problem. I have to leave at 5am, whatever happens”

F. Javier Barroso Madrid

Conversations between impatient police chief and emergency duty officer initially ruled out Madrid Arena stampede and attributed reports of cardiac arrests to drugs

Madrid Arena tragedy claims fifth victim

Spanish singer Isabel Pantoja is carried by the Spanish Civil Guard and police officers to a car after she collapsed while leaving court on Tuesday. / JON NAZCA (REUTERS)

Isabel Pantoja sentenced to two years in jail for money laundering

Diego Narváez Málaga 1

World-famous singer will not have to serve time but must pay 1.14-million-euro fine

Operation emperor

Alleged Chinese mafia kingpin Gao Ping back behind bars

Fernando J. Pérez Madrid

Businessman under investigation for massive money-laundering racket represents a flight risk, says High Court

Gao Ping: the emperor and his clothes

TVE director resigns after emailing report slurring journalists

Rosario G. Gómez Madrid

Document discredited candidates for corporation's workers committee on political grounds

BANKING SECTOR

Sabadell awarded nationalized Banco Gallego at public tender

Íñigo de Barrón Madrid

FROB still negotiating the terms of the acquisition

business

Pescanova chairman lent firm just €9.3m after selling €31m of shares

Cristina Delgado Madrid

Sell-off came in the months just before seafood firm's financial problems came to light

Pescanova chairman sold seven percent of firm before crisis broke

El País Madrid

Fernández de Sousa said he made “significant loses” on shares. Proceeds were used to help resolve food processor’s “urgent liquidity problems”

Pescanova hid two costly disasters at its Portuguese plant

Cristina Delgado Madrid

Turbot factory failures caused losses worth 70 million. Company never published 2012 financial results

Pescanova to call in receivers as board fails to approve 2012 results

POPULAR PROTESTS

An 'escrache' outside the home of a member of the dictatorial regime in Buenos Aires in 2000. / INFOSIC

"I started 'escraches' when I saw the man who tortured my dad"

Francisco Peregil Buenos Aires

Paula Maroni and Carlos Pisoni founded the popular protest movement in Argentina

Universities forced to step in to fund students without means

Ivanna Vallespín / J. A. Aunión Barcelona / Madrid

As the price of college courses rises, institutions begin to assist more who are less worried about their education, and more about the uncertainty of their next meal

Rajoy hands Pope Francis a Spain national soccer team shirt / ATLAS

Pope Francis receives Spanish PM

El País / José María Bedoya Madrid

Mariano Rajoy becomes first European leader to meet with Argentinean pontiff

Más información

The silence of the wolves

Real Sociedad has reached the Champions League places with almost the same team that won it promotion

Real Sociedad's Alberto de la Bella celebrates one of the team's goals in a recent 4-1 win over Málaga. / ANDER GILLENEA (AFP)

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LATIN AMERICA

Clarín wins new round in Argentina media law battle

Alejandro Rebossio Buenos Aires

Government announces it will appeal ruling with Supreme Court

Cash-laundering charge mires president

Martin Delfín Madrid

Journalist claims Kirchner couple hid some $55 million

Mexico frees general linked to drug traffickers

Juan Diego Quesada Mexico City

Prosecutors find no evidence to back claims made under past government

Capriles warns supporters about Maduro’s provocations

El País Madrid

Supreme Court president dismisses opposition call for recount

Maduro, the bodyguard who became leader

Ewald Scharfenberg Caracas

Not long ago, the interim president was a hate figure for Chávez supporters

Capriles, a contender who knows how to wait

Maye Primera Miami

The former governor has defeated some of Chávez’s strongest candidates in past

FEATURES

soccer's burst bubble

The debt of Liga clubs with the tax agency alone stands at 690 million euros. / TOMÁS ONDARRA (EL PAÍS)

"A diabolical business"

Rafael Méndez

The administrators tasked with bringing football clubs' rampant overspending to heel speak about what is to be found in the sordid underbelly of La Liga

COAST UNDER THREAT

New fears for Spain’s shoreline

Juana Viúdez Madrid

Amendments planned by the Popular Party government for legislation protecting coastal areas could pave the way for further construction, say environmentalists