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Priest infected with ebola virus “stable” but “slightly disorientated”

Miguel Pajares is in Madrid’s Carlos III hospital for special treatment in isolation. A nun who was brought from Liberia with him is not showing symptoms of the illness

Catalan regional government moves to regulate cannabis use

All aspects – from cultivation to sale – will be controlled, while non-residents and under-21s will not be allowed to join clubs

Civil Guard discovers 127 kilos of cocaine on navy training ship

Three sailors in custody on suspicion of smuggling drugs from Colombia and trying to offload them to traffickers in New York

Tax Office turned up major irregularities in failed firm Gowex

Investigation into company run by disgraced businessman Jenaro García also discovered massive diversion of funds to accounts in Costa Rica, the home country of the chief executive’s wife

Calatrava (l) shows local politicians his planned convention center project back in 2008. / Ángel Sánchez

Court case adds to woes of architect Santiago Calatrava

Designer of Valencia’s Palau de les Arts named as official suspect in probe into deal to construct conference center in Castellón

BID FOR INDEPENDENCE

“There is no plan B,” Mas tells press on independence vote

Miquel Noguer Barcelona 1

Catalan premier explains that “everything is in place” for November plebiscite on secession from Spain, despite fierce opposition from Rajoy government

Catalan nationalists shun Pujol to save sovereignty process

Independence movement distancing itself from long-serving ex-Catalonia premier as investigations into his fortune deepen

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS

Spanish government suspends export of military material to Israel

Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo describes bombings in Gaza as “heart-rending”

Agreement reached for completion of Panama Canal by end of 2015

José Meléndez San José (Costa Rica)

International consortium led by Spain’s Sacyr halted work earlier in the year after dispute over cost overruns

politics

Upstart party Podemos becoming third political power, says new poll

The rise of the group is coinciding with an increasing lack of confidence in Spain's political class, coupled with huge concerns over unemployment and corruption

Ángela González, in a photo from 2011. / SAMUEL SÁNCHEZ

UN rules against Spain for not protecting child killed by father

Andrea González was murdered during an unsupervised visit in 2003

US soldiers suffering from Spanish flu in 1918 in Langres, France. / age fotostock

Could Spanish flu really have started in Spain?

Investigation suggests that a deadly version of the virus, which killed more than 50 million, may have gestated in Madrid

Police arrest two women planning on joining jihad in Iraq and Syria

One of the detainees is from the Spanish North African exclave of Ceuta and is a minor

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EDITOR’S PICK

Pujol at his wife's family home in Queralbs (Girona). / Pere duran

Pujol seeks refuge in Queralbs

El País Barcelona

Ex-Catalan premier and his family have been trying to escape public eye since admitting to hiding funds overseas

The end of “El Johnny”?

Legendary San Juan Evangelista Jazz and Music Club in Madrid has hosted some of the greatest figures in jazz and flamenco

Don’t give up your day job

The DJ scene is attracting growing numbers of minor celebrities who are looking to cling on to their fame

Seville! I’m trying to sleep!

Mary Biles asks whether measures to combat noise in the famously vibrant Andalusian city are doomed to failure

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LATIN AMERICA

President of Plaza de Mayo group locates her grandson

Francisco Peregil Buenos Aires

After 36 years, Estela de Carlotto has finally found Guido thanks to DNA testing

Brazil’s electoral race hots up as scandals surface

Carla Jiménez São Paulo

Election polls say candidates must win over 20 million undecided voters

Pope’s new show of support for liberation theologists

Juan G. Bedoya Santander

Pontiff reinstates Miguel D'Escoto, a suspended Sandinista priest and minister

Miami’s “bolibourgeoisie”

Maye Primera Miami

The oligarchy flourishing under the chavista regime likes to invest its new money in Miami

The latest in European science

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

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