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NÓOS CASE

Registrar’s office says properties did not belong to Princess Cristina

María Fabra / El País Madrid

Experts agree that human error in tax agency report is a possibility but a remote one

Tax report on princess’s properties may be inaccurate, sources say

Andreu Manresa / Alejandro Bolaños / Jesús Sérvulo González Palma de Mallorca / Madrid 2

Attorney general asks anti-corruption prosecutors to examine whether transactions occurred. AEAT agency data suggests that king’s daughter made 1.43 million in real estate sales

Prosecutor targets king’s daughter in fresh Nóos case angle

JUSTICE

José Bréton attends court on the second day of his murder trial in Córdoba on Tuesday. / REUTERS

Father of missing Córdoba kids tells
murder trial he did not drug them

Manuel J. Albert Córdoba 1

José Bretón takes the stand on the second day of his murder trial

José Bretón trial: jury sworn in for missing Córdoba kids case

Manuel J. Albert Córdoba

Prosecutor "in no doubt" accused murdered his two children, but defense lawyer claims he is "not capable of hurting anyone”

SPORT IN CRISIS

Unión Deportivo Salamanca soccer club folds after 90 years

El País / R. T. Madrid

Liquidation proceedings instigated at Vicente del Bosque’s first team owing to debts of 23 million euros

AUSTERITY IMPACT

Strike leaves students unable to sit university entrance exams

Antonio Jiménez Barca Lisbon

Unions say 90 percent of teachers stayed away, while ministry claims most candidates were able to take test

HISTORICAL MEMORY

Amnesty report slams impunity for Spanish war criminals

Natalia Junquera Madrid

NGO chief Esteban Beltrán accuses country's authorities of being unwilling to investigate Franco-era atrocities

Gay Costa Rican lawmaker leads the fight for same-sex unions

Álvaro Murillo San Jose

Religious groups bitterly oppose the measures before the Legislative Assembly

Business

Delivery of new stock at a Mango store in Istanbul. / KEREM UZEL (BLOOMBERG)

Mango’s metamorphosis

Cristina Delgado

Fashion retailer has designs on tripling its turnover over the next five years with new chain-store brands

INTERVIEW

Lara Alcázar: "I cannot understand a woman who does not define herself as a feminist in a political sense." / SAMUEL SÁNCHEZ (EL PAÍS)

“We are fit in case we have to run”

Carmen Pérez-Lanzac

Lara Alcázar, the leader of Femen in Spain, explains how she joined the feminist movement

Telefónica seeks to quash AT&T takeover deal rumors

El País Madrid

"No interest from anyone,” telecoms giant tells regulator

Business leader slams time off given in case of family death

EP Madrid

CEOE head of labor relations says regulations date from "the time of stagecoaches"

INFRASTRUCTURE

Prince Felipe (c), accompanied by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (l) and Public Works Minister Ana Pastor on the AVE platform in Alicante. / J.J.Guillén (EFE)

Protesters out in force to greet inauguration of new AVE route

Ramón Muñoz / Ezequiel Moltó Madrid / Alicante 1

Madrid-Alicante line launched with considerably less fanfare than previous routes

economy

Public debt level falls for first time in eight months

EP Madrid

Total amount owed down from 88.2 percent of GDP to 87.3 percent from March to April

BÁRCENAS CASE

Evidence to back defense of ex-PP treasurer cannot be found

José Manuel Romero / María Fernández Madrid

Embroiled in multiple corruption investigations, Luis Bárcenas claims to have taken advice from an unknown lawyer

Swiss authorities reveal ex-PP treasurer had another account

Fernando J. Pérez Madrid 3

Former Popular Party money man had nine million more euros stashed away than previously admitted

Police rescue Spaniards from kidnapping nightmare

Elizabeth Reyes L. Bogotá 1

Vacationing couple from Asturias abducted while driving in a remote region in Colombia

EFFECTS OF THE CRISIS

Extremadura to issue “food cards” for the neediest families

Marta Fernández Maeso Mérida

PP administration says it wishes to “bring some dignity” to the region’s poorest citizens

Charity begins in school as soup kitchens register rise in numbers

BUSINESS

Total eclipse of the sun

Fernando Barciela

Isofotón is the latest victim of the downturn in the Spanish photovoltaic market amid EU conflict with Chinese producers

BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS

Real Madrid's Sergio Rodríguez shapes to shoot against Barcelona in the fourth match of the series. / RODOLFO MOLINA (DIARIO AS)

Barcelona ensures ACB final will go to five games

Robert Álvarez Barcelona

Spain’s defending basketball champion forces a final match on rival’s home patch this Wednesday

Manel Comas. / PAULINO ORIBE (DIARIO AS)

Manel Comas, “sheriff” of Spanish basketball, dies at 67

Robert Álvarez Barcelona

Coach took charge of a series of top teams but in later years was dogged by tragedy and scandal

POLITICAL CORRUPTION

Prosecutor accuses Catalan CDC party of taking €6.6m in kickbacks

Jesús García Barcelona 1

Construction company Ferrovial allegedly funneled illegal commissions through leading Barcelona cultural association

BUSINESS SCANDAL

Ex-employers’ group chief found guilty of draining bankrupt firm

Agencies Madrid

Gerardo Díaz Ferrán ordered to cover the debts racked up by the company he jointly owned

EUROPEAN SUMMIT

Socialist leader compares pact with government to soccer rivals

Vera Gutiérrez Calvo Madrid

"When it comes to defending Spain, Iniesta and Sergio Ramos wear the same shirt,” says Ruablcaba

Minority parties claim they were “thrown out” of pact negotiations

Fernando Garea Madrid

CiU, PNV and UPyD hold off signing up to PP-Socialist deal on common front ahead of EU summit

Rajoy and Rubalcaba agree terms of pact to urge Brussels into action

Fernando Garea Madrid 2

Leaders hammer out accord to push for youth employment and banking union at forthcoming EU summit

AUSTERITY

Healthcare cuts putting Spaniards’ lives at risk, report finds

Reuters London

Austerity kills is the blunt message of a study published by the ‘British Medical Journal’

crime

A woman attends a memorial to murdered Bilbao prostitute Mauren Ada Ortuya. / FERNANDO DOMINGO ALDAMA

Silence rules the Bilbao streets after kung fu prostitute murders

Ilargi Izar de la Fuente Bilbao

Most street workers are young foreign women with family to support back home

Más información

Intense rain and melting snow bring devastating floods to Catalan Pyrenees

More than 400 people evacuated after the River Garona burst its banks

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FEATURES

Adoption Scandal

A woman who has accused the Xunta of snatching her two children. / Xurxo Lobato

A present-day stolen babies case?

Silvia R. Pontevedra

A Galician court is investigating complaints by marginalized women who say they were duped or coerced into giving up newborns for adoption

HEALTHCARE CONTROVERSY

Cancer: too costly to treat?

Jaime Prats Valencia

The government is being accused of delaying approval of expensive drugs, while the Health Ministry says it is in the process of streamlining procedures

Facing up to the risk of cancer

THE FUTURE OF THE EU

The European Commission ended up ditching its plan to insist on pre-sealed oil dispensers in bars and restaurants. / SANTI BURGOS (EL PAÍS)

Europe's great cucumber debate

Luis Doncel

Brussels' penchant for ruling on the shape of fruit and attempt to prevent oil pourers from being refilled has given Euroskeptics big drums to bang. Will next year's elections see a full-scale revolt?

POVERTY