domingo, 12 mayo 2013
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right-to-life debate

Deputy PM fails to clarify reforms to abortion laws

Justice minister has mooted plan to ban terminations in fetal abnormality cases

Debate "open" on abortion within Popular Party, says spokesman

Justice minister's proposals would make laws even more restrictive than in 1985

regional politics

Madrid threatens to question further self-rule moves by Catalonia

El País Madrid / Barcelona

Rajoy makes call to strengthen Spain at public function with regional leader Artur Mas

Constitutional Court nullifies Catalan sovereignty declaration

María Fabra / Pere Ríos / Miquel Noguer Madrid / Barcelona 2

Nationalist leader Mas vows to press ahead on unilateral path toward self-determination vote

CRIME

Spanish police finally get hold of slippery British robbery suspect

El País Madrid

Andrew Terence Moran had twice slipped between the fingers of law enforcement officers

Police complain of nausea caused by drugs haul

El País Alicante

Seized marijuana said to be affecting “officers and detainees” after long storage process

Aznar extends lawsuit against EL PAÍS over Bárcenas papers

Former PM denies receiving extra payments from the Popular Party after he took office

Police report confirms alleged illegal funding by PP

Financial crimes unit says illegal donations were laundered in official accounts

EDUCATION IN CONFLICT

Thousands abandon classrooms to join second strike in 12 months

Teachers and students protest cuts and proposed education reforms in 30 cities across Spain

NÓOS PROBE

Judge targets Urdangarin palace deal with top Valencia officials

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca 1

King’s son-in-law alleged to have met popular Party’s Camps and Barberá to discuss lucrative contracts

Palma court suspends Princess Cristina’s subpoena in Nóos probe

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca 13

Magistrates deliver majority ruling to keep king’s daughter from taking stand as official fraud suspect

CLASSIFIED MATERIAL

This image from 1958 shows a Spanish amphibious craft unloading supplies during the Ifni War. / EFE

Why top secret in Spain is forever

Historians are calling on the government to change the way it deals with classified documents, which are under lock and key indefinitely

Stolen-baby network also sought mothers outside Spain

Jesús Duva Madrid

Civil Guard uncovers illegal adoption ring bringing Moroccan children into country via Melilla

BANKING SECTOR

Bankia sees 150,000 clients in arbitration on hybrids

EFE Economía Madrid

Nationalized bank has already received 29,000 requests

ECONOMY

Portuguese jobless rate hits another record high

Agencies Madrid 1

The number of people out of work in the first quarter climbed by 3.1 percent

CINEMA

Spanish film star Alfredo Landa, who appeared in more than 120 movies. / JORDI SOCÍAS

So long to ‘landismo’: screen legend Alfredo Landa passes away at 80

His long line of repressed comic characters came to embody Spaniards' frustrations

Spanish court refuses to extradite HSBC whistleblower Falciani

El País Madrid 2

Switzerland wants former bank employee to face secrecy charges after stealing tax-avoidance data

POLITICS

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in Congress on Wednesday as Socialist leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalacaba turns away. / Gorka Lejarcegi

Rajoy rejects opposition calls for pact of state to tackle crisis

PM instead urges support for government’s reform agenda

New Spanish submarine has serious weight problem

El País Madrid

State shipbuilder to seek outside help to resolve buoyancy issues

Socialist youth leader Beatriz Talegón in a recent interview. / Fernando Alvarado (EFE)

Socialist youth leader claims “right could be behind” 15-M movement

Beatriz Talegón is forging her politicial path by generating headlines

Thousands of demonstrators occupy Valencia's Plaza de la Virgen on Friday in support of victims of the 2006 metro system tragedy. / JOSÉ JORDAN

Forty-three dead, six years, and zero culprits

Victims of Spain's worst subway accident are demanding that Valencia regional premier Alberto Fabra reopen the inquiry into the 2006 tragedy

BUSINESS

Telefónica net profit up 20.6 percent in first quarter

Ramón Muñoz Madrid 1

Revenues fall due to weakness in Europe

BANKING

Somber panorama for nationalized banks CatalunyaBanc, Novagalicia

State sees few advantages in merging the lenders around Bankia

Di Stéfano’s family seeks order after marriage vow

Mábel Galaz Madrid

"Young at heart" Real Madrid legend says he is planning to wed secretary despite 50-year age difference

AIR SHOW ACCIDENT

An emergency medic rushes to the scene of the fatal crash on Sunday at the Cuatro Vientos airport in Madrid. / fernando laso poveda

Only two firefighters on duty when fatal aerodrome crash occurred

Section chief at Cuatro Vientos had complained to superiors about shortages, but facility chief says legal minimums were covered

Exhibition pilot dies after crashing jet into Madrid hangar

Vintage trainer aircraft plunged to the ground during an airshow at capital’s Cuatro Vientos aerodrome

TOWARD THE END OF TERRORISM

Joint security raids net six most-wanted ETA members

Organization’s logistics apparatus “dismantled,” says minister

SPANISH CRISIS

Tax hikes were essential to avoid bailout, Rajoy tells own party

Prime minister defends himself from internal criticism by PP barons

Madrid PP leader Aguirre urges PM to cut deeper to tackle crisis

Heavy-hitting former regional premier argues tax hikes have failed

CYBERCRIME

Sven Olaf Kamphuis was arrested in Granollers for launching a massive denial of service cyberattack.

Hacker becomes talk of town

Residents of Granollers had no idea that the odd foreigner with the orange van in their midst was the Dutchman accused of launching the biggest cyberattack in history

LABOR MARKET

Jobless claims fall for second straight month thanks to hostelry

El País / Agencies Madrid 1

Economy Minister Luis de Guindos welcomes the figures as indicating a turning point

IMMIGRATION

Spaniards moved to Germany in record numbers last year

Agencies Madrid

Close to 30,000 packed their bags and headed to the European economic powerhouse

Más información

Spain’s Malian mission

Soldiers are training local forces to fight jihadists

Putting Malian troops through their paces in Koulikoro. / JOSÉ NARANJO

TENNIS

A Madrid Open full of surprises

Rob Train Madrid

Medina takes love set off Williams as Nadal sweats it out against Ferrer

SOCIAL NETWORKS

Follow EL PAÍS in English on Twitter, Facebook and Eskup

Connect with us to get all the latest Spanish news in English

FEATURES

INTERVIEW

Éric de Montgolfier. / BERNARDO PÉREZ

“Falciani’s future isn’t going to be decided in a Spanish court”

French public prosecutor Éric de Montgolfier discovered the HSBC tax evasion whistleblower’s encrypted files in a small town in southern France

RIGHT TO LIFE DEBATE

A protest calling for the legalization of abortion in 1978 in Madrid. / CHEMA CONESA (EL PAÍS)

Abortion: A trip back in time

Planned reforms to the laws covering pregnancies would take Spain back to the 1980s, say critics

PROPERTY

Your home is not a hotel

Government to change law on renting out of privately owned properties to tourists.

ECONOMY

One of the "white tide" demonstrations in Madrid against cutbacks and the privatization of public healthcare. / ULY MARTÍN (EL PAÍS)

A thousand days of austerity

Three years on from the day Europe-imposed cutbacks were first imposed, Spain's suffering has never been more acute

museums

A model of the Taj Mahal in the Museo Tiflológico. / CARLOS ROSILLO

Beyond the Prado and Thyssen

A cornucopia of oddball artifacts awaits visitors who dare to explore Madrid's other museums

Art

Dalí the artist vs Dalí the performer

A major retrospective of the Spanish Surrealist master at Madrid's Reina Sofía is likely to be the exhibition of the year

Yébenes mayor Pedro Acevedo and Olvido Hormigos. / B. PÉREZ

Exactly what constitutes privacy?

The recent case of an erotic video of a Toledo politician posted on the internet highlights the dangers of sharing private material with others

LATIN AMERICA

HENRIQUE CAPRILES / Venezuelan opposition leader

“They stole the election victory from me”

Maduro steps up “petro-diplomacy”

Maye Primera Miami

Venezuelan president on whirlwind tour to shore up support for electoral win

Brazil’s Roberto Azevêdo to head up WTO

Diplomat becomes first Latin American to lead the international trade agency

Argentina declares fiscal amnesty for dollars

El País Buenos Aires

High peso inflation has led to flourishing black market

Fernández presses ahead

Francisco Peregil Buenos Aires

Government turns deaf ear to Inflation, corruption claims and concerns over judicial reform

Violence and extermination in the lungs of Central America

Carlos Salinas Managua

Indigenous communities say government has left them at mercy of settlers

EDITOR'S PICK

Painter to complete portrait started 17 years ago

Antonio López moves to palace to finish picture of royals

EXHIBITION

From the vine to the vignette

An exhibition in La Rioja investigates wine and comic books

art

'Alice' in her new Andalusian Wonderland

Artist donates giant sculpture of Lewis Carroll character to art center

CULTURE

Lesbianism on trial

Roger Salas Madrid

A US historian's study offers a detailed account of how the Spanish Inquisition persecuted a female homosexual couple

CINEMA

"I could only think, ‘This is a joke’"

Actor Mario Casas recalls the difficulties of finishing his latest movie, ‘La mula’

Haneke wins Prince of Asturias Award

Ana Marcos Madrid

Austrian Oscar-winning director of ‘Amour’ to receive 2013 arts prize

This week's movie releases

El País Madrid

Gerard Butler does Die Hard, while The Imposter tells a remarkable true-life tale

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Not without consensus

Education Minister Wert must not impose education reforms that have been so widely rejected

OPINION

Magda has a visa

A mother will see her son graduate from a US college thanks to a warm-hearted response

EDITORIAL

Hollande’s lack of results

The president is losing public support due to his failure to keep electoral promises

opinion

Devout democrats

The future of democracy in Pakistan is of great interest elsewhere, for reasons that have to do with security

The latest in European science

Atomium brings together universities, newspapers and businesses to boost the movement of knowledge

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