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Última hora

Valencia public broadcaster to close after court ruling on layoffs

Ferran Bono / Sara Velert Valencia

Region says it cannot afford to reinstate workers at RTVV after magistrates declare sackings null and void

EDUCATION CUTS

Party pressure forces Wert to go back on Erasmus decision

El País Madrid

Education minister says all exchange students will keep grants for this year as controversial cutback plan is ditched

State Erasmus grants to be slashed for most students

J. A. Aunión / Elisa Silió / Manuel Planelles Madrid

Only those with lowest economic means to continue receiving 180-euro monthly contribution

CYBER-ESPIONAGE SCANDAL

Spain’s spy agency under NSA spotlight

Miguel González / Ignacio Cembrero Madrid

CNI chief due to report to Congress after claims of massive message monitoring

NSA helped track kidnapped aid workers

El País Madrid

US spy agency followed three Catalans during their 2009 ordeal

Spanish intelligence turns over millions of messages to NSA

Ignacio Cembrero / Miguel González Madrid

Telephone metadata and other communications are given to US experts for deciphering despite prohibition of network trawling under country's laws

Catalan independence debate takes fizz out of cava producer

AGENCIES Madrid 1

Freixenet president admits his personal views on secession have led to boycott within region

CATALONIA

ERC leader Oriol Junquera (l) converses with Catalan premier Artur Mas. / ALBERT GARCÍA

CiU gives ground on budget as ERC emerges as leading political force

Miquel Noguer / Maiol Roger / Lluís Pellicer Barcelona

New survey shows 46 percent voting in favor of Catalan region’s independence, falling to 30 percent if more powers were devolved to Barcelona

EURO-ZONE ECONOMY

Brussels lowers its forecast for Spanish growth in 2014

Claudi Pérez / Andrew Sim Brussels / Madrid

Country's GDP now seen expanding by just 0.5 percent, way down on earlier estimate of 0.9 percent

Bank of Spain estimates economy grew 0.1 percent in third quarter

EMPLOYMENT

Jobless claims rise in October but fall on a seasonally-adjusted basis

El País Madrid

Social Security affiliation also increases in the month

Garbage piles up in the district of Atocha in the center of Madrid as street cleaners go on indefinite strike to protest layoffs. / Álvaro García

Striking street cleaners raise a stink in Madrid

Patricia Peiró / Pilar Álvarez Madrid

Indefinite stoppage continues in protest at planned layoffs

royal scandal

Nóos judge seizes duke and duchess of Palma’s €10m Barcelona mansion

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca 4

Sixteen other properties also frozen by court. Valencia mayor and former regional premier summoned as witnesses

Catalonia suspends eight police officers targeted in death inquiry

Jesús García / Rebeca Carranco Barcelona

Judge exonerates Moroccan man who had previously fought with arrested businessman Juan Andrés Benítez

Videos capture violent arrest that ended in death of suspect

Tragedy in galicia

Appeal by rail chiefs over fatal Santiago crash upheld

David Reinero Santiago

Five employees of state rail infrastructure company Adif will not be officially named as suspects

MELILLA KILLINGS

Thousands attended the funerals of two young men shot dead by Moroccan forces last week.

Thousands protest in Melilla after Moroccan navy shooting deaths

Ignacio Cembrero Madrid 1

Exclave unites to demand investigation into killings of Spaniards

business

Banks stand by new lobby chief despite government opposition

Íñigo de Barrón Madrid

Economy Ministry says it is "unethical" for José María Roldán to work for the interests of lenders he previously supervised

GÜRTEL CASE

Corruption suspect claims PP got bribes from companies for contracts

El País / Fernando J. Pérez Madrid

Former PP treasurer Lapuerta declines to speak to judge due to "memory problems"

PP'S HIDDEN FINANCES

Bárcenas controlled PP accounts until 2011, court papers show

María Fabra / María Fernández Madrid

Filings by tax office with investigating judge contradict party’s version under which ex-treasurer had resigned two years earlier

politics

Leftist figures unite with PSOE to seek “alternative to PP hegemony”

Fernando Garea Madrid

Group backed by former Judge Baltasar Garzón and dean of Complutense University

CRIME

House vandalized in wake of Gypsy shooting in Girona

Marta Rodríguez

Police believe that murder suspect’s home was attacked by victim’s relatives in anger over crime

Members of the Figueres local police force watch over the body of the man killed Friday at the cemetery. / cadena ser

Argument between Gypsy clans ends in cemetery shootout death

Marta Rodríguez Girona

30-year-old man was killed in a gunfight on All Souls Day

TELECOMS

Telefónica sells Czech unit to PPF for 2.5 billion euros

Andrew Sim Madrid

Spanish telecoms giant to use proceeds to reduce financial debt

Beer makers ordered to post bond of 764 million euros

El País Madrid

Damm patriarch Carceller and son may face tax fraud charges

HOUSING MARKET

S&P sees Spanish house prices continuing to fall into 2016

El País Madrid 1

Agency believes Sareb bad bank will find it difficult to meet home sales target

ECONOMY

Crisis wipes 80,000 Spanish households off the map

Amanda Mars Madrid

Immigrants leaving the country and young people moving back home considered prime reasons

Spanish families rein in their borrowing

El País Madrid

Household debt drops to lowest level since 2007

New car sales remain buoyed by subsidy scheme

Cristina Galindo Madrid

Purchases in October climb an annual 34 percent after further extension of government aid to the industry

business

A customer outside a Costco outlet in Hackensack, New Jersey. / RON ANTONELLI (BLOOMBERG)

Wholesale expansion

Sandro Pozzi

Costco is preparing to enter the Spanish market. The giant American discount chain will be opening outlets in Seville and Madrid next year

CNI had no ETA leads after March 11 attack, ex-PM Aznar writes

Francesco Manetto Madrid

Latest edition of memoirs covers controversial days in wake of Atocha massacre

TOWARD THE END OF TERRORISM

ETA seeks to contact jailed leaders for location of weapons caches

Luis R. Aizpeolea Madrid 1

Left-wing sources say move points to imminent announcement of intention to disarm

ETA killer’s lawyers to pursue compensation in High Court

María Fabra Madrid

Strasbourg awarded Inés del Río 30,000 euros in damages under the European Human Rights Convention

Thousands of people heeded the CGTP union's call to protest outside parliament on Friday. / MARIO CRUZ (EFE)

Portuguese hit the streets against new austerity budget

EFE Lisbon 1

Protestors demand lawmakers reject government plan for 2014

environment

Madrid dwellers fume in city poll

Bruno García Gallo Madrid 2

Capital slumps in Euro survey with pollution, noise and dirt as top gripes. Opposition to PP mayor leaps on evidence that change is urgently needed

BUSINESS

A group of Chinese tourists enjoying a day on the beach in Thailand. / Zigor Aldama

The Chinese are coming

Zigor Aldama

Governments around the world are eager to lure big-spending Asian tourists

interview

"Pope Francis is a man of action, and doesn't beat around the bush"

Carmen Pérez-Lanzac

Forensic scientist José Antonio Lorente received an unexpected call from the Holy See

BUSINESS

Boosted investment data reflects renewed global interest in Spain

Miguel Ángel Noceda / El País Madrid 2

China’s Sinopec currently negotiating to buy Repsol’s 30-percent stake in Gas Natural. Two major corporate deals announced on Thursday alone

Spain's blue-chip Ibex 35 stock index has risen by around 20 percent since the start of the year. / LUCAS JACKSON (REUTERS)

Spain: suddenly back in the money

David Fernández / Carmen Sánchez-Silva 1

The markets, demonized for dragging the country to the brink of disaster, are providing new capital

Más información

Coming home to jail

Despite some high-profile transfer cases, many convicts incarcerated abroad are not aware of their rights. Spanish prisoners do get support from their government

Francisco “Paco” Larrañaga saw his life sentence changed to the death penalty before he was transferred from the Philippines to Spain, where he is currently in prison. / uly martín / ULY MARTÍN (EL PAÍS)

WORLD TOUR FINALS

Nadal a single victory away from end-of-year number one crown

World number one swats aside exhausted Ferrer 6-3, 6-2

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Real and Atlético eye Europe’s last 16

Madrid sides can both reach Champions League knockout stages with victory

SMARTPHONES

Spain and Latin America turn their backs on the iPhone

Javier Martín Madrid

Two regions have lowest market share of Apple devices, says report

SOCIAL NETWORKS

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LATIN AMERICA

Brazil spied on French agents during Lula's first term

Folha de São Paulo reports that Abin kept tabs at launch base of Alcântara

The “artistic” blacklists of the Argentinean dictatorship

Raft of documents include names of writers, actors, journalists and musicians considered dangerous

Medellín’s growing drug and sex tourism culture

Elizabeth Reyes L. Bogotá

Foreigners flock to Colombian city to get high and abuse children, UN says

A Mexican “patron saint” of social outcasts

Peña Nieto dedicates new pardons law to Tzotzil schoolteacher unjustly accused of murder

Promising Brazilian oil firm files for bankruptcy protection

Former billionaire’s OGX was the talk of the petroleum industry when it debuted in 2007

Clarín may take media ruling to international courts

Alejandro Rebossio Buenos Aires

Argentinean justices rule in favor of divesting broadcast licenses

FEATURES

real estate

The Sareb "bad bank" has earmarked 103 million euros for demolitions of unfinished housing. / cristóbal manuel

Time to swing the wrecking ball on Spain's vacant homes?

Lluís Pellicer 1

In the wake of the crisis, the country has been left with 800,000 unsold properties. Demolishing unfinished buildings might be the only solution, say experts

consumer affairs

Pablo Camacho, abogado defensor del morosos. / Bernárdo Pérez

Debt collectors feel public backlash

Techniques used by agencies hired by service providers over small defaults are coming under increasing scrutiny

JUDICIAL PROBE

A year on from Madrid’s Halloween tragedy, answers remain elusive

The anniversary of the deaths of five young women at a massive party is looming, but the court investigation has made little progress

city life

The entrance to one of Madrid's down-at-heel arcades, which have suffered due to a change in consumer habits. / Álvaro García

Madrid's lost arcades

Sergio C. Fanjul Madrid 1

These old commercial cloisters were once the life and soul of the Spanish capital, but are now mostly closed or in decline. A new movement is afoot to revitalize the shopping galleries

Empty promises abound in the capital, but who wants them?

INTERVIEW

“I knew that I would beat leukemia and sing again”

Jesús Ruiz Mantilla

Opera star Josep Carreras was at the height of a magnificent career when he was diagnosed with the illness in 1987. Now he divides his life between music and fighting to find a cure

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