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ECONOMY

Government announces record fall in unemployed for April

Jobless figures fall by 111,565 people, the best result for fourth month since the statistical series began. But 4,684,301 individuals still remain on the unemployment rolls

CHANNEL CLOSURES

US documentary series 'Pawn Stars' was one of Xplora's most popular shows.

Five TV stations fade to black

Xplora, La Sexta 3 and Nitro among those forced to shut down just before midnight. Industry Ministry had given networks May 6 deadline to comply with Supreme Court ruling

the church

Priest harks back to domestic violence of yore

“A man might get drunk and beat his wife, but he didn’t kill her the way they do today,” he tells shocked churchgoers during Sunday Mass

voter intentions

Why Spanish youngsters don’t want revolution, but they do need change

Anabel Díez Madrid 3

New poll shows many under-35s support leftist ideas and would give Socialists victory at the polls. 80 percent of youths also reject the current structure and management methods of political parties

CYBERCRIMES

Begoña Rodríguez shared an image on Facebook that carried the ETA logo. / REUTERS

“I uploaded the ETA logo without realizing”

One of the 21 people detained last month on suspicion of glorifying terrorism is claiming they are innocent

21 arrested for online hate speech

More detentions expected in large-scale operation against individuals who called for new terrorist attacks

POLITICAL TENSIONS

Catalan politician Alfons López is harassed as he walks into the regional assembly on June 15, 2013. / Albert Gea (REUTERS)

Just how much abuse can a politician take?

Àngels Piñol Barcelona

Public figures from all parties have seen an increase in verbal and sometimes physical aggression. Angry voters are making their feelings heard, but are they crossing a red line?

Catalan Socialist leader punched in face outside cathedral

Pere Navarro has been receiving death threats and insulting calls for weeks, say sources

Nine arrests in corruption raid at railway management firm ADIF

Jesús García / Rebeca Carranco Madrid / Barcelona

Suspects may have overcharged for construction of high-speed AVE tracks in Barcelona

RACISM IN SPORT

Some of the anti-racism photos taken in support of Dani Alves.

Just another “isolated” racist incident?

The recent throwing of a banana at Barcelona's Dani Alves once again highlights the Spanish authorities’ lax attitude when it comes to tackling racial abuse in sport

Fan who threw banana at Barcelona’s Dani Alves arrested

Villarreal had already withdrawn man's club membership for life in wake of racist gesture

Soccer stars go bananas in support of Barça’s Alves

Hulk, Neymar and Roberto Carlos say no to racism by imitating star's on-pitch gesture

CRIME

Dominican rapper Monkey Black killed in Barcelona bar fight

Rebeca Carranco Barcelona

Two men fled scene after stabbing victim at least twice in town of Sant Adrià del Besòs. The musician, who collaborated with US star Pitbull, had come to Spain to further his international career

IMMIGRATION

The latest mass attempt to jump the Melilla border.

150 migrants cross into Melilla in latest mass border jump

Toñy Ramos Melilla 1

Another 200 get stuck in space between the security fences that separate Spanish and Moroccan territory

FRANCOIST CRIMES

High Court turns down Argentina’s request to extradite “Billy the Kid”

María Fabra Madrid

Notorious Franco-era policeman is accused of 13 counts of torture in universal justice case

Court will not extradite ex-Civil Guard suspected of torture

María Fabra Madrid

A judge in Argentina is invoking the principle of universal justice to investigate Francoist crimes committed in Spain

political corruption

Flanked by Mariano Rajoy, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría replies to the Socialist spokeswoman's accusations in Congress. / juan carlos hidalgo (EFE)

“Never in my life have I received a cash-filled envelope” — deputy PM

Anabel Díez Madrid 2

Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría and Socialist spokeswoman clash over bonuses in Congress. Opposition accuses PP leaders of pocketing hefty checks thanks to party’s secret funds

UNIVERSAL JUSTICE

High Court confirms drug traffickers must be freed under legal reforms

13-to-3 vote supports judges’ decisions to let suspects go earlier this month

Montserrat Caballé in 2007. / SUSANNA SAEZ

Opera singer Montserrat Caballé under scrutiny for tax evasion

Jesús García Barcelona

Spain’s most famous soprano allegedly failed to pay €500,000 in income tax in 2010

SOCCER

From left to right: Barcelona players Víctor Valdés, Carles Puyol, Xavi and Andrés Iniesta attend the Mass / gianluca battista

“You were our hero”

Luis Martín Barcelona

Tito Vilanova's children provide most emotional moments at funeral Mass for ex-Barça coach. Players, ex-club presidents and politicians come together to pay their respects

Former Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova succumbs to cancer

El País Barcelona

The 45-year-old, who led club to Liga win in 2013, dies after battle with parotid gland tumor

Más información

Naming and shaming the celebrity tax dodgers

Opera singer Montserrat Caballé is just the latest in a line of famous Spaniards to have fallen foul of the tax authorities

Left to right: Ana Torroja, Isabel Pantoja, Sergi Arola and Montserrat Caballé. / EUROPA PRESS / GARCÍA SANTOS / C. ÁLVAREZ / EFE

COMMUNICATION

“We will report on news that is in the interest of our readers, not an ideology”

Antonio Caño, the new editor-in-chief of EL PAÍS, answers the public’s questions

SOCIAL NETWORKS

Follow EL PAÍS in English on Twitter, Facebook and Eskup

Connect with us to get all the latest Spanish news in English

LATIN AMERICA

Filmmaker challenges Mexican president to debate

Juan Diego Quesada Mexico City

Influential director Alfonso Cuarón poses questions about oil reform plans

An intimate portrait of Evo Morales

‘My life’ chronicles the life of the Bolivian president before he took office in 2006

Panamanians oust Ricardo Martinelli in vote for change

José Meléndez Ciudad de Panamá

New leader Juan Carlos Varela will seek to redress government’s authoritarian drift

The mayor, the thug and the man behind the mask

Juan Diego Quesada México DF

Drug ​lord​ La Tuta imposed his ​own ​law ​over ​Michoacán politicians

Venezuela’s Globovisión censors TV interview with author Vargas Llosa

Program host resigns in protest, joining 50 others who have recently left station

features

AUTOMOBILES

The original Seat Ibiza rolled out of the old factory in Barcelona's Zona Franca in 1984.

Ibiza: the car that saved Seat

Clara Blanchar Barcelona

The Spanish carmaker’s top-selling model has just turned 30 years old

TRANSPORT

Rental bikes are one alternative means of transport. / Kike Para

Greener ways to get around

From car sharing to power walking, there have never been more methods of moving about Spain’s cities

Four hundred pirates on the airwaves

The Valencia region is rife with unlicensed radio stations, which often escape fines from authorities

ART FRAUD

The Knoedler & Co. gallery closed in 2011 after being hit with lawsuits by cheated collectors. / Robert Holmes (corbis)

The Spanish dealer, the Chinese forger and the $80 million art scam

US police uncover massive fraud that fooled top galleries and collectors. Works by abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were among those copied

Three years after Lorca earthquake, the wait continues amid the ruins

Joaquín Gil Lorca

Less than five percent of those who lost their homes have been re-housed

culture

This week’s movie releases

El País Madrid

Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet star in dystopian sci-fi adaptation 'Divergent,' while Woody Allen talks John Turturro into going on the game in 'Fading Gigolo'

‘Ocho apellidos vascos’ becomes most-seen Spanish movie ever

Romantic comedy overtakes national box office figure set by ‘The Others’

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Young reformers

Spain’s youngsters are highly critical of the establishment, but they want to see its institutions improved, rather than abolished altogether

opinion

Lunch at 3pm

Spain’s working hours belong in the last century, and are having a negative impact on everything from health and family life, to productivity in the office

The latest in European science

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

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