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Última hora

23-F leader celebrated coup anniversary in Civil Guard barracks

Miguel González Madrid

Son of Antonio Tejero Molina removed from top post after organizing lunch to mark 1981 uprising

UNIVERSAL JUSTICE

Court invokes Geneva Convention to keep murder inquiry open

Fernando J. Pérez / María Fabra Madrid

Judge skirts government’s modifications to universal jurisdiction doctrine to avoid having to shelve investigation into death of Telecinco cameraman José Couso during the 2003 invasion of Iraq

CORRUPTION

Álvarez will not resign from European bank post over ERE case

AGENCIES Madrid

Former Socialist minister is the target of an investigation into a massive fraud scheme allegedly committed in Andalusia between 2000 and 2010

Ex-minister Magdalena Álvarez ordered to post bond in ERE case

Javier Martín-Arroyo Seville 1

European Investment Bank official seen as a key player in supervising Andalusia layoff fund. Former public works chief could face embezzlement and corrupt practices charges

CRIME

Parents of girl rescued from Bolivian jungle under investigation

Rebeca Carranco / EFE Barcelona

Nine-year-old will not return home until circumstances surrounding her trip with her kidnapper are cleared up

Nine-year-old Catalan girl rescued from Bolivian jungle

Rebeca Carranco Barcelona

Spanish Civil Guard officers spent four months tracking Morales, who is alleged to have kidnapped the youngster

Former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez admitted to hospital

EFE Madrid

The 81-year-old, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, has a respiratory infection

Spain deports 11-M convict back to native Morocco

Pedro Espinosa / EFE Cádiz

Rafá Zouhier served 10 years in Spanish prison for his role in supplying the Madrid bombers with dynamite

ABORTION DEBATE

Andalusia and Catalonia join opposition against abortion reform

María R. Sahuquillo Madrid

Justice minister reportedly contemplating minor changes to controversial legislation in bid to build consensus

BUSINESS

Vodafone to buy cable operator Ono for 7.2 billion euros

El País Madrid

British carrier wants to enter Spain’s TV market to offset declining wireless service revenues

TELEVISION

Última emisión de Canal 9, en noviembre de 2013. / Tania Castro

A long, slow, and expensive death

Ferran Bono Valencia

Valencia’s public broadcaster RTVV closed down four months ago, but has had to continue paying its workforce of 1,608 employees since

ECONOMY

Government’s panel of experts recommends reducing income tax

El País Madrid

Report drawn up by so-called “wise men” advocates increasing VAT and other indirect levies to compensate

Police in Spain and Morocco break up alleged terrorism ring

José María Irujo / Jesús Duva Madrid

Suspects reportedly recruited volunteers to fight in Syria. Sting proves “excellent” level of cooperation against Al Qaeda, say sources

corruption

10,700 students investigated in courses scandal received no training

At least 13 arrested in alleged €8.9 million fraud scheme

Arrests made in fraud scandal involving bogus training programs

Pilar Álvarez / Álvaro de Cózar Madrid

Former president of the Madrid employers association among those detained

The original Lisbeth Salander, in a scene from 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.'

Lisbeth Salander lives on in Melilla

Ignacio Cembrero Madrid

A whistleblower styling herself on Stieg Larsson’s heroine has become the scourge of local politicians, leaking documents about corruption

Lebanese politician’s son denies offering money to organ donors

Laura J. Varo Beirut

Family of Hatem Akouche says his arrest is the result of a misunderstanding

Five arrested in Spain’s first case of human organ trafficking

María R. Sahuquillo / Jesús Duva

Group allegedly paid migrants up to €40,000 to become donors

CORRUPTION CASES

Justice minister closes door on pardons for corrupt politicians

Rebeca Carranco Barcelona 2

Decision made by Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón is likely to see former Popular Party regional premier of the Balearic Islands, Jaume Matas, start his jail term

Did Gallardón already grant pardons to corrupt politicians?

Vera Gutiérrez Calvo Madrid

Judges' association refutes minister's claim that the government had not, and will not, let convicted colleagues off

Regional Politics

Navarre premier Yolanda Barcina. / Luis Azanza

Navarre parliament calls on premier to step down

EFE Pamplona

Yolanda Barcina said to have interfered in tax inquiries

banking

Regulator to start sending “spies” to check up on banks

David Fernández Madrid

“Mystery shopping” will determine whether financial products are being sold to customers fairly

telecoms

Jazztel customers left without cellphone service for 12 hours

Ramón Muñoz Madrid

Outage, which affected calls and internet access, most serious seen in Spain since 2003

ECONOMY

Finance minister announces increased tax receipts for early 2014

Jesús Sérvulo González Madrid

But Cristóbal Montoro refuses to reveal last year’s deficit figure

High-speed rail beats out air travel for the first time

El País Madrid

Airlines experience 28 straight months of decline due to higher taxes and fewer routes. Railway network has seen 11 back-to-back months of growth

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Ricardo Blázquez (l) with his predecessor, Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela. / Claudio Álvarez

Familiar face returns to head Spanish bishops

Juan G. Bedoya Madrid

Moderate Ricardo Blázquez voted in to replace incendiary Rouco

EDITORIAL: The pending transition

Civil Guard officers take one of the hashish packages out of the sea on Monday.

Two tons of hashish wash up on Ceuta beaches

Rocío Abad Ceuta

Police believe packages may have fallen off boat caught in recent rough weather

ECONOMY

Spain sees 42-percent spike in mortgage defaults

Íñigo de Barrón / Miguel Jiménez Madrid 1

After seven years of crisis, high unemployment is finally affecting home loans

Mystery of the missing mountaineer is solved

F. Javier Barroso Madrid

Partly mummified body belonged to a cyclist from Madrid who had disappeared in 2011

Hikers find skeleton with barely any flesh

Police battle with demonstrators on Tuesday in Santiago de Compostela. / PHOTO: ÓSCAR CORRAL | VIDEO: ATLAS

Galician parliament suspends session after violent protest

El País Santiago

Police arrest several demonstrators in Santiago

Man sentenced for locking girl inside trunk of his car

EFE Málaga

Youngster left for two hours while defendant visited girlfriend

Rescue workers conduct their search around where the Santa Ana went down. / J.L.CEREIJIDO (EFE)

Two dead and six missing after fishing boat sinks in Asturias

Javier Cuartas / Paola Obelleiro Oviedo / Muros

Vessel went down off Cabo de Peñas overnight

Victims detail alleged torture in Sahrawi liberation movement jails

EFE Madrid

Spain’s High Court investigates claims made by three witnesses against Polisario Front

Financial crisis

Bank execs win legal battle over compensation

Íñigo de Barrón Madrid

Catalunya Banc officials fired for mismanagement

Video of emergency services reaching the three mountaineers who lost their lives on Sunday (no sound).

Five climbers dead in two back-to-back falls

AGENCIES Madrid

All the deaths occurred in Sierra de Gredos

OBITUARY

Opera world mourns passing of “firebrand” Gerard Mortier

Daniel Verdú Madrid

Director stirred controversy as head of Madrid’s Teatro Real

EUROPEAN ELECTIONS

Rajoy offers last-minute support for Merkel’s choice in EU vote

Carlos E. Cué / Claudi Pérez Dublín

Spanish leader waited to secure better conditions in power share

U2’s Bono asks for Europe-wide campaign for Spain

Carlos E. Cué Dublin 5

Rock star tells Merkel and Rajoy that people should be encouraged to buy Spanish goods

A Series Yonkis user. / CRISTÓBAL MANUEL

Series Yonkis gets back to business with new domain name

El País Madrid

Website providing access to free film and TV content had eliminated links without explaining why

INTERVIEW

Manuel Muñoz, head of the Spanish National Electronic Cigarette Association, enjoys a vape. / LUIS SEVILLANO

“I vape... and I smoke four cigarettes a day”

The head of the National Electronic Cigarette Association, Manuel Muñoz, explains his habits

Más información

A web of spies

A new book tells the little-known story of how both Germany and the Allies sought to manipulate neutral Spain during World War I

A German U-boat inspects Spanish transatlantic liner Infanta Isabel de Borbón outside Cádiz in March 1918. / Getty

LATIN AMERICA

Costa Rica at center of global organ-trafficking ring

José Meléndez San José (Costa Rica)

Couple say they were offered $20,000 to donate kidney for a transplant in Israel

Peru gets tough on Machu Picchu nude selfie craze

Authorities claim that streaker video has sparked bizarre trend at ancient citadel

Venezuelan troops try to crush unrest in Valencia

Top US military official warns of "catastrophic" demise of Maduro government

Leftist declared winner in Salvadoran runoff race

El País / Juan José Dalton San Salvador

Supporters of conservative candidate take to streets in protest

Argentina plans to regulate street protests

Francisco Peregil Buenos Aires

Man thrown off bridge as he tries to get through roadblock

Maduro promises “drastic measures” to quell unrest

Ewald Scharfenberg Caracas

Death toll rises to 24 after three more killings

Mexican vigilante leader accused of murder

Paula Chouza Mexico City

Rifts begin to show among self-defense forces in Michoacán

cinema

CINEMA

After the controversy, the movie…

Venezuelan film ‘Pelo malo’ has kicked up a major row between Chávez supporters and their opponents

This week’s movie releases

Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey plays a cowboy AIDS patient in 'Dallas Buyers Club'

Planeta Futuro

PLANETA FUTURO

Jorge Martínez, creator of the 'Pastillas contra el dolor ajeno' campaign.

“We would all rather save lives than sell cars”

Pablo Linde Madrid

Jorge Martínez is the creator of the most successful promotional campaign ever run by a Spanish non-profit

Welcome to Planeta Futuro

EL PAÍS is launching a new portal focusing on sustainable global development, with the collaboration of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

My body, not the state’s

Alejandra Agudo Madrid

NGOs are campaigning to put sexual and reproductive rights on the agenda for development goal talks. They cite changes to Spain's abortion law as retrograde

Last stop Tangier

Luis Gómez

Morocco has taken on the role of guarding Europe's southern border, holding back those whose only dream is to make it into Europe by reaching Spanish soil

Missing the big picture

The movements of people who leave their home countries to seek a new life are changing direction, and Europe’s closed-doors policy could be a big mistake

“Everyone steals from you”

Each year thousands of Africans try to cross the Sahara to reach Europe. En route, many die and many just get trapped, unable to go on or get back home

features

HOMELESSNESS

A man spends the night under the viaduct that crosses Segovia street. / KIKE PARA

When the sky is the roof over your head

Esther Sánchez Madrid

Around 700 of Madrid’s 2,200 homeless refuse to use the city’s shelters. Raquel, who has died aged 44 after living under a bridge for six years, was one of them

culture

An illustration by artist Fernando Vicente, incorporating Twitter's blue bird logo.

Literature in 140 characters

Angel Luis Sucasas Fernández Madrid

A Spanish writer is among the participants in the second edition of the #TwitterFiction festival

HERITAGE

Battle for the Mosque of Córdoba

Manuel J. Albert Córdoba 1

Andalusian government disputes bishopric’s ownership and control of the building, a symbol of coexistence between civilizations

EATING & DRINKING

La Antigua Tahona in Rascafría. / santi burgos

New twists on Madrid’s most famous dish

The capital is staging a six-week event to promote the hearty 'cocido Madrileño' stew

Pocoyó: the cartoon wars

Patricia Ortega Dolz Madrid 1

Two entrepreneurs are fighting it out for control of popular kid's show

RELATIONSHIPS

Madrid’s heartbreak café

For the past year a group has been meeting in a downtown coffee shop to share its romantic misadventures

HERITAGE

Bonaparte’s tunnel battles to see the light

Escape route from Royal Palace built by Napoleon's brother remains shut off after M-30 and Madrid Río building work

MUSIC

Stage dive: Live music suffers major drop

Iñigo López Palacios Madrid

Earnings down almost 30 percent in 12 months following VAT hike

Última hora

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Alaya’s dangerous step

El País

The judge investigating the ERE case is running the risk of finding suspects guilty before the courts have reached a ruling

OPINION

Heartless

Jorge M. Reverte

Those who sowed the seeds of doubt after the Madrid bombings have never apologized, not even to the victims

EDITORIAL

The pending transition

El País

The profile of the new head of Spain's bishops promises continuity and greater moderation

BLOG / ATOMIUM CULTURE

The latest in European science

Atomium brings together universities, newspapers and businesses to boost the movement of knowledge

11-M – 10 YEARS ON

The four heads of the victims associations, pictured together at Tuesday's Mass. From l-r: Ángeles Domínguez, Pilar Manjón, Ángeles Pedraza and María del Mar Blanco. / GERARD JULIEN (AFP)