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NSA revelations: Spain also a victim of US espionage

Miguel González Brussels

The agency tracked communications from government members but officials hint that spying took place during Zapatero era

EDITORIAL: Silence is no answer

Spanish intelligence believes NSA was also active in Spain

Miguel González / Ignacio Cembrero Madrid

CNI suspects millions of phone calls were tapped, but no politicians were spied on

WINTER SPORTS

Barcelona opts against bid for 2022 Winter Olympic Games

Camilo S. Baquero Barcelona

Mayor puts decision down to lack of consensus

Spain’s Olympic skiing hope Ruiz returns to slopes

Juan José Mateo Madrid

Sochi success in sights of downhill winner at Méribel

BANKING SECTOR

CaixaBank Chief Executive Juan María Nin. / (efe) / felipe trueba (EFE)

Main Spanish lenders post big gains in earnings through to September

El País / AGENCIES Madrid

BBVA cuts cash dividend payment in line with central bank recommendation

Santander’s net income up 77 percent in first nine months

Andrew Sim / Agencies Madrid

Earnings boosted by lower balance clean-up costs But bad loans continue to advance, while interest income falls

CONFLICT OVER EDUCATION

Students demonstrating against public education cutbacks and the government's reform plans in Murcia. / Marcial Guillén (EFE)

Cutbacks and PP government’s reform plans fuel students’ strike

Elisa Silió / J. A. Aunión Madrid

Unions say vast majority of teachers stayed away but Education Ministry calls protest a failure based on “simplistic” slogans

TERRORISM AND THE LAW

Second jailed ETA member freed after Strasbourg ruling

Fernando J. Pérez Madrid

Juan Manuel Píriz released after 29 years in prison

Rajoy: European ETA prisoners ruling is “unfair and wrong”

Francesco Manetto / Carlos E. Cué / Miguel González Madrid / Brussels 1

Popular Party will finally attend terrorism victims’ rally in Madrid on Sunday, but Cabinet will not be represented

High Court receives 36 appeals for release from ETA inmates

Fernando J. Pérez Madrid

Magistrates to start considering individual cases on Friday

Two years into ceasefire, Basque left sees new hope for settlement

Luis R. Aizpeolea Madrid

'Abertzale' groups have been at loggerheads with ETA over how to manage peace

Spain bad bank reorders property sale as bids fall short: sources

Bloomberg Madrid

Sareb received over 30 offers for commercial real estate

TRAVEL

Ryanair passengers currently have to pay 40 euros to have their boarding pass reprinted at the airport. / PERE DURÁN

Court throws out clauses in Ryanair ticket terms

Judge rules that 40-euro fee for reprinting of boarding pass breaches consumer protection laws

Ryanair forced to pay up after refusing to let toddler fly

‘Y viva España’ singer dies at age 82

El País Madrid

Manolo Escobar starred in string of movies but remained best known for sing-along party favorite

LABOR MARKET

Unemployment falls due to temporary hiring for summer

El País Madrid

Number of people out of work declines by 72,800 as the jobless rate drops just below 26 percent

Bank of Spain estimates economy grew 0.1 percent in third quarter

Andrew Sim / Agencies Madrid

Country emerges from recession after more than two years

Markets already celebrating start of Spanish recovery

Foreign tourist numbers hit yet another record in September

Andrew Sim Madrid

Overseas arrivals climbed 4.7 percent from the same month in 2012 as Madrid regains its luster

Two videos reveal blows dealt to suspect by Mossos d'Esquadra.

Videos capture violent arrest that ended in death of suspect

Jesús García / Rebeca Carranco Barcelona 1

Residents recorded Catalan police force attempting to subdue 50-year-old businessman

ROCK OF CONTENTION

Gibraltar sidesteps Spanish import embargo for land reclamation works

Cándido Romaguera Algeciras

Rock contracts a Portuguese company to deliver 40,000 tons of building material for controversial resort project

A photograph of the arrested man outside Bárcenas' home. / Courtesy of @arcanil

Armed man talks his way into house of former PP treasurer

F. Javier Barroso / Fernando J. Pérez Madrid

Family of jailed former senator were tied up by intruder, police say. 63-year-old suspect, who demanded “hard disks and pen drives,” has psychiatric problems

Six haulage contractors stuck in Sierra Leone hopeful of solution

Pilar Almenar Vara Valencia

Truckers have been trapped in country for 10 months without passports

BUSINESS

FCC to reduce debt by 2015 through sale of assets

Miguel Ángel Noceda Madrid

Construction group looking to return to profits in 2015

Bill Gates becomes second-largest shareholder in builder FCC

El País Madrid 1

Move being interpreted as bet on recovery of crisis-stricken Spanish sector

BUSINESS

Ferrovial sells stake in Heathrow Airports for 463 million euros

Andrew Sim Madrid

Spanish builder and service company will remain major shareholder

AIRLINE SECTOR

IAG expects Iberia to be back in the black in 2014

Agencies London

CEO Willie Walsh confident that 600-million-euro restructuring will make the difference to Spanish airline

University of Alicante professor Mar Esquembre. / JOAQUIN DE HARO (EL PAÍS)

Law professor denounces strip search at Congress

University lecturer invited to attend debate "felt humiliated" after being told to disrobe after surname mix-up

REGIONAL POLTICS

Minister calls on regions to leave “divisions” aside

El País

“The recession will have ended in the third quarter," says Montoro

Top court sides with firm that fired pregnant worker

María Fabra Madrid

Ruling states that "[work] contract had been terminated during her probationary period"

The San Hermenegildo student residence for the children of military personnel. / PACO PUENTES (EL PAIS)

Army officers who feasted while students “starved” face jail

Javier Martín-Arroyo Seville

Seville residence funds pillaged by colonels with taste for gourmet food and fine wine

Más información

Laureates at large

From generous donations to downing Higgs Boson ale, the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award winners have been out in Oviedo in the run-up to the ceremony

Thanks for the boson!”: Technical and scientific research award winners Peter Higgs (c) and François Englert (l) raise a toast in Oviedo. / Paco Paredes

PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARDS

“Spain is a great nation and worth fighting for,” Felipe tells ceremony

Photographer Annie Leibovitz among prize winners in Oviedo

LA LIGA PREVIEW

New twists in ‘clásico’ plot line

Rob Train Madrid

First-time Barça and Real coaches will author the script of Saturday’s clash

ART

Driven to abstraction

Sergio Mellado Málaga

Remembering Hilma af Klint, the woman who pioneered modern art

SOCIAL NETWORKS

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FEATURES

Aid workers Blanca Thiebaut (left, in a white skirt) and Montserrat Serra (right, in beige pants) return to Spain in July after their kidnapping. / MEDICOS SIN FRONTERAS

Aid workers under threat

Alejandra Agudo Madrid

Increasing numbers of attacks against NGOs have reopened debates about safety

gender violence

Laura was abused by her boyfriend when she was 15 years old. She ended the relationship when his parents found out about his violent behavior. / SAMUEL SÁNCHEZ

A nightmare in shining armor

María R. Sahuquillo Madrid

New data shows that an increasing number of males in Spain are developing violent and domineering behavior toward their partners while still in their teens

Welcome to the Barcelona fight club

Rebeca Carranco

A scrap metal dealer is training young men to compete in brutal no-holds-barred bouts

new industry

The makers from Estudio Buenos Días, in downtown Madrid. / Luis Sevillano

Prepare to meet thy Maker Movement

Maria Comes Fayos Madrid

A global network of small-scale artisans, combining cutting-edge technology with design, is attracting followers in Madrid

POLITICS

Inherited leadership

Gabriela Cañas

Politicians who make the step up when their mentors step down face skepticism from the public, who didn't vote for them

LATIN AMERICA

Venezuela believes happiness should be in national interest

Maduro creates office to supervise Havana's social programs

Brazil wants to store all data by internet users

Juan Arias Río de Janeiro

Rousseff introduces bill in answer to alleged US spying activities in her country

Officials fear cholera has spread to American continent

Maye Primera Miami

Mexico reports 171 cases of infectious disease

Currency controls in Venezuela fuel dollar-shopping trips abroad

Maduro government declines to lift controls

Havana scraps two-tier peso system in latest reform

Maye Primera Miami

Cuban government introduced the scheme in 1994

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Ronaldo to Real’s rescue again

Rob Train Madrid

Messi also back to help stuttering Barça while Costa clatters on

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CINEMA

Big screen, small prices

Rocío García Madrid

The success of the nationwide Fiesta del Cine event has reopened the debate on cinema ticket costs

This week’s movie releases

El País Madrid

‘Grand Piano’ stars Elijah Wood as a star musician making a comeback from a breakdown

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Silence is no answer

El País

The United States cannot go on declining to explain its espionage practices

OPINION

Presidential parley

Initial optimism about Obama’s foreign-policy aims has given way to some hard questions, starting with the use of drones

EDITORIAL

The recession is over

El País

Spain has emerged from nine quarters of negative growth, but weak demand is hampering recovery

opinion

Encroaching inequality

Enrique Gil Calvo

When modernization enters a phase of maturity and the middle classes can grow no further, as is now the case in the West, equality of opportunity becomes a trap

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