viernes, 21 junio 2013

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Urgente

Snowden abandona Hong Kong. El analista que destapó los casos de espionaje masivo de EE UU y Reino Unido está en un avión con destino a Moscú, según el diario 'South China Morning Post'. Su destino final puede ser Ecuador o Islandia. Washington había pedido su extradición.

Última hora

CUTBACKS

Government downsizing “will bring savings of 37.7 billion euros”

El País Madrid 3

Deputy PM claims that cuts can be made with no job losses, but regions resist taking up Rajoy’s cost-cutting advice

NÓOS INQUIRY

Princess Cristina committed no tax fraud, say auditors

El País Madrid

Urdangarin’s ex-business partner faces another tax charge

Minister apologizes to Royal Household for tax report blunder

Francesco Manetto Madrid 1

Montoro avoids giving details on how 1.4 million euros in property sales were attributed to Princess Cristina

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

CRIME

Olot porter who killed 11 seniors given 127-year jail sentence

Rebeca Carranco Barcelona

Joan Vila Dilmé said he wanted to help his victims to die “to ease their sufferings”

Universities call for stricter student grant system to be scrapped

Pilar Álvarez / Elisa Silió Madrid

Education Ministry's new requirements could result in half of learners dropping out, deans warn

ECONOMY

Worst of recession behind us, says Bank of Spain chief

El País / Íñigo de Barrón Madrid 2

Governor also to leave decision on mortgage floor clauses to lenders after Supreme Court ruling

Banking

Former Caja Madrid chairman leaves prison for the second time

Íñigo de Barrón / El País Madrid

Judge signs release order after prosecutors refused to back him on reopening of Florida bank case

Messi summoned to appear in court on tax-fraud accusation

Jesús García Barcelona 1

Soccer player and his father to face probe in September. FC Barcelona and Argentina star accused of evading 4.1m euros

Soccer star Messi accused of four-million-euro tax fraud

MILITARY JUSTICE

Female captain who was sexually harassed gets pariah treatment

Miguel González Madrid 1

Women who court found suffered abuse from superior officer faces jail over disloyalty charge

Financial Scandal

Uniter chairman José González Mata is taken from the courthouse to jail last Tuesday night. / Paco Puentes

Layoff-scam judge accuses unions of complicity in massive fraud

Manuel Planelles / Reyes Rincón Seville

Workers' representatives "connived" to skim Andalusian unemployment subsidy

Crime

Police bust illegal cigarette factory outside Madrid

F. Javier Barroso Madrid

Six people charged with smuggling and illegal production of tobacco products

extreme weather

The River Garona runs through Artíes, in Vall d'Aran. / Toni Garriga (EFE)

Return to normality will be "long and hard" in flood-hit Pyrenees "

Lluís Visa Vielha e Mijaran

"The main thing is there were no victims to mourn," says Catalan interior chief

Intense rain and melting snow bring devastating floods

Lluís Visa / David García Vázquez Lleida / Barcelona

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

Ecological Disaster

Prestige oil spill captain should not go to jail, say prosecutors

Paola Obelleiro A Coruña

State argues that skipper should not be subjected to additional punishment, but ship owner may still be held responsible for catastrophe

Widow of US banker slain in Puerto Rico pressures FBI to solve murder

Martin Delfín Madrid

Bank execs accused of complicity in alleged contract killing

HEALTHCARE CORRUPTION

Catalan health department number two contracted firms he represented

Oriol Güell Barcelona

Josep Maria Padrosa's private companies billed CatSalut for over 14 million euros in 2012

AUSTERITY

Government to sell 15,000 properties to raise funds

María Fernández Madrid 1

Prime minister announces raft of cost-cutting measures

BRETÓN TRIAL

Ruth Ortiz, the mother of the two missing children, Ruth and José, arriving at the Córdoba courthouse on Wednesday. / salas (EFE)

“He was completely obsessive. The children came to fear him”

Manuel J. Albert Córdoba

Missing Córdoba youngsters’ mother testifies in murder trial

Father of missing Córdoba kids tells court he did not drug them

Manuel J. Albert Córdoba 1

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

ECONOMY

IMF calls on government to reduce wage and firing costs even further

El País Madrid 2

Officials also say Spain and Brussels should take “urgent action to generate growth and jobs”

Mortgages

Economy chief wants all banks to follow floor clause ruling

Alejandro Bolaños Santander

Reforms of small print in contracts could cost banks €1bn a year

Economy

Despite the crisis, more join list of high net-worth individuals

El País Madrid

Percentage of Spaniards with over €1m in assets continues to grow

HIGH-SPEED RAIL

A construction site outside the Pajares rail tunnel. / SAMUEL SÁNCHEZ

A less than watertight project

Rafael Méndez Madrid

The construction of the second-longest tunnel in Spain through Asturias' Picos de Europa has been plagued by leaks

Protesters out in force to greet inauguration of new AVE route

“Countries that support rail are more socially advanced”

Thiago Ferrer Morini

Award-winning engineer José Luis López Gómez reflects on his career and the importance of trains

Healthcare

Mississippi HIV baby is a miracle we should not have needed

Juan Berenguer Berenguer Madrid

Eight cases of vertical transmission of the AIDS virus were recorded in Spain in the year 2011

Business Opportunities

Rural idyll: Lucía Melet with her family in El Escorial

Finding work out in the wilds

María Comes Fayos Madrid

The Rural Entrepreneur Fair shows there are business opportunities out in the country for those keen to escape crisis-plagued big city life

SPORT IN CRISIS

Unión Deportivo Salamanca soccer club folds after 90 years

El País / R. T. Madrid 1

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

Más información

Eight terror arrests made in Ceuta

Ammunition recovered during raids on Al Qaeda sympathisers

An Interior Ministry handout of one of the arrested suspects. / AFP PHOTO / SPANISH INTERIOR MINISTRY

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LATIN AMERICA

March organizers call off demonstrations in São Paulo

Groups with other interests have infiltrated protests, says Free Pass Movement

Former leftist mayor wants debate on Pemex reforms

President says constitutional changes are needed to denationalize sector

Brazil protestors set out on victory parade

F. Peregil / El País São Paulo / Madrid

Demonstrators get U-turn on fare hikes

Argentina will end up voting for judges, vows president

A. Rebossio Buenos Aires

Fernández says battle to reform judiciary not over

Border tensions fly after Haiti bans Dominican poultry

Maye Primera Miami

Haitian officials want to keep eggs and chickens out to prevent bird flu

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