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POLITICS

Socialists seek to forge new image at key party conference

Vera Gutiérrez Calvo Madrid

This weekend’s meeting will be overshadowed by primaries debate

PSOE plans tax exemption for low earners and jobless

Nine more ETA prisoners released after Strasbourg ruling

María Fabra / Fernando J. Pérez Madrid

Decision taken before Supreme Court ruling on Monday

GÜRTEL CASE

Gürtel judge orders banks to supply details of suspect’s dealings

María Fabra / Fernando J. Pérez Madrid

Magistrate’s decision follows reluctance on part of lenders to supply information

PORTUGAL STRIKE

People waiting in a Lisbon hospital on Friday. / A. F. (AP)

Portuguese civil servants strike to protest state budget

Antonio Jiménez Barca / AGENCIES Lisbon

Austerity measures involve further wages cuts

RTVV CLOSURE

Opposition takes control of RTVV after PP board members step down

Ferran Bono / Joaquín Ferrandis / El País Valencia 1

Leftist representatives vow to keep broadcaster afloat as anti-government programing menu sees audience share soar

The baggage hall at Castellón airport, which has yet to receive any flights since it was inaugurated in 2011. / Ángel Sánchez

Castellón airport needs a further three million euros to open

Lorena Ortega Castellón

Management of notorious public project to be put out to tender by region

POLITICS

Extremadura chief moves to cap mandates for regional premiers

María Fernández / Marta Fernández Maeso Mérida / Madrid

Popular Party’s Monago proposes maximum of two terms

Supreme Court overturns controversial government pardon for kamikaze driver

El País Madrid

Motorist who killed 25-year-old man served 10 months of 13-year sentence and paid 4,000-euro fine

PP'S HIDDEN FINANCES

PP manager was “forced” to sign receipt for €200,000 by Bárcenas

Fernando J. Pérez Madrid 2

Castilla-La Mancha party manager José Ángel Cañas tells court he never saw a cent of alleged backhander for Toledo contract

Bárcenas controlled PP accounts until 2011, court papers show

Judge ordered arrest of former CAM officials because of flight risk

Fernando J. Pérez / Agencies Madrid 1

Magistrate feared ex-directors of failed savings bank named in fraud case might flee to Curaçao which has no extradition treaty with Spain

High Court judge orders arrest of former CAM officials

BUSINESS

Telefónica’s revenues fall on currency factors

El País Madrid

Net profit in first nine months of 2013 declines 9 percent to 3.145 billion euros

education cuts

Erasmus students in Warsaw show their support.

"They didn't commit to keeping next year's grants"

Elisa Silió Madrid

Students across Europe hail decision to reverse Erasmus cutbacks, but warn that fight is not over

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 1

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

INDUSTRY

RAFA RIVAS (AFP)

Appliance maker Fagor to file for receivership on Friday

Mikel Ormazabal / El País San Sebastián / Madrid

Mondragón Corporation umbrella group says it will offer alternatives to members of Basque cooperative

Industrial output expands for first time since start of 2011

El País / Agencies Madrid

Growth led by capital goods and processed food

CNI intelligence chief answers to Congress over NSA spying ops

Miguel González Madrid

General Sanz Roldán says he is “99.9- percent sure” Rajoy was not wiretapped by US espionage agency

Spanish intelligence turns over millions of private messages to NSA

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

TENNIS

Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates beating Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka during their group A singles match. / BEN STANSALL (AFP)

Nadal sees off Wawrinka to retain number-one spot until 2014

Rob Train Madrid

Spaniard beats Swiss 7-6, 7-6 at World Tour Finals in London

Doubtful loans surface rise by 21 billion euros after reclassification

El País Madrid

New criteria applied to refinanced loans show that only about a quarter are serviced on time

BANKING SECTOR

Minister gets his way as banking lobby’s choice turns top job down

Íñigo de Barrón Madrid

Former Bank of Spain official opts not to become AEB chief as it would be counterproductive to go over De Guindos’ head

historical memory

María Delgado carries a casket during the ceremony in Aranda de Duero involving the remains of one of 129 people executed by the Falange. / ELOY ALONSO (REUTERS)

A 77-year wait to lay the past to rest

Natalia Junquera Madrid 1

The families of 129 people executed during the Civil War finally say goodbye. DNA identification was impossible due to government's funding squeeze

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

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

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

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

Más información

"I got nervous. When there is gas in the mine, it is hard to stay calm"

Survivor of an underground blast reflects on last the accident in León

Alfredo, who does not wish to be identified, photographed shortly after last week's funeral for the six miners killed in León. / ULY MARTÍN

TENNIS

"When you beat Ferrer, you know..."

Juan José Mateo London

Toni Nadal reveals the key moments in Rafa's return to the top

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FEATURES

surrogacy

José Hernando and Javier Herraiz with their daughters, who were born via a surrogate in the US. / S. Sánchez

The prospective parents in search of a law

Vicenta Cobo Los Ángeles

Legislation prohibits Spaniards with fertility issues from using a surrogate. To get around this, couples are turning to services in the US. But even then there are legal obstacles back home to overcome

PRISON TRANSFERS

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)

Coming home to jail

Martin Delfín

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

real estate

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

Lluís Pellicer 2

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?

LATIN AMERICA

"The only way to avoid an investigation in this country is not to make errors"

Brazilian ex-president Lula da Silva speaks of his plans since beating cancer

Chilean election set to mark low for conservatives

Rocío Montes Santiago

Bachelet expected to win the presidency for the second time

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

TENNIS

“Attack, hit the ball hard and don't run around too much”

Juan Martín de Potro keeps it simple as he plots a way past Nadal, Djokovic et al to glory at the World Tour Finals

INTERNATIONAL SOCCER

Del Bosque calls up Diego Costa to Spain squad

Brazil-born Atlético striker included for friendly matches against Equatorial Guinea and South Africa

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CINEMA

A continent gets its drift

José Naranjo Córdoba

Africa's new wave of filmmakers is finding an increasingly powerful voice

A shocking Discovery for a Catalan filmmaker

Gregorio Belinchón Madrid

Neus Ballús earns European Film Award nod with 'La plaga'

This week's movie releases

El País Madrid

Giant bugs attempt to invade Earth in sci-fi actioner Ender's Game, while The Cabin in the Woods bends genres

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

More growth

El País

The European Central Bank has cut interest rates to boost the economy and avoid deflation

opinion

Pariahs of the Caribbean

Mario Vargas Llosa

The case of Juliana Deguis Pierre symbolizes the tragedy of some 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent, who have retroactively become "stateless persons"

EDITORIAL

A broken toy

El País

RTTV is a victim of 20 years of sectarian mismanagement by the Popuar Party

opinion

"Salauds" indeed

Soledad Gallego-Díaz

The signatories of this manifesto in favor of prostitution take it for granted that women work in the trade freely, either as a remunerated job like any other, or just for pleasure

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