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REFERENDUM ROW

Catalan government insists timetable for vote on sovereignty unchanged

Miquel Noguer Barcelona

Ruling CiU seeks to limit damage caused by deputy premier’s suggestion that November 9 referendum could be delayed. Summit of pro-independence parties planned for September

IMMIGRATION

Dozens of migrants placed in care of NGOs as state centers reach limit

José Precedo Tarifa

Cádiz police precincts are full following huge influx of boats carrying illegal sub-Saharan immigrants to Spanish shores earlier this week

Morocco: “dysfunctions” led to huge surge of migrant boats

José Precedo / Jesús Duva Tarifa / Madrid

Country’s security forces had not been patrolling its northern coast since Monday, says EU border agency

Woman caught smuggling cocaine in breast implants at Madrid airport

El País Madrid

The Venezuelan national was rushed to hospital after she confessed to be hiding 1.7 kilos of the drug

ECONOMY

Spain’s public debt passes record
€1 trillion mark

Amanda Mars Madrid

GDP-to-debt ratio soon set to reach 100% – a figure not seen in more than a century

ROCK OF CONTENTION

Gibraltar smuggling cost EU €700m in tax revenue over four years

Spain begins judicial investigation into contraband tobacco at OLAF anti-fraud office’s recommendation

EBOLA OUTBREAK

Bleach and a robot used to disinfect ebola victim’s Madrid hospital room

New tests confirm that Juliana Bonoha, the nun repatriated alongside late Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, has not been infected

Priest brought to Madrid after contracting ebola dies in hospital

Seventy-five-year-old Spanish clergyman Miguel Pajares, who was flown back from Liberia last week, had been being treated with experimental ZMapp serum

An aerial view over Castellón Airport. / ANGEL SÁNCHEZ

Castellón’s plane-less airport hands €660,000 to local soccer club

Sum covers what Valencia government-owned installation, which has yet to receive air traffic, promised in sponsorship for 2009-2010

Government gives definitive go-ahead to prospecting off Canaries

El País Madrid

Energy firm Repsol says it will begin oil exploration surveys later this year, and expects results by early 2015

ERE INVESTIGATION

Supreme Court to rule on senior politicians in labor fund scandal

Seville judge hands over section of massive ERE corruption case involving two ex-Andalusia regional premiers and five others with parliamentary immunity

Newly unearthed documents shed fresh light on ‘Don Quixote’ author

Margot Molina Seville

Finds in Seville reveal Cervantes worked as a purveyor for Philip II’s navy and establish a relationship with a previously unknown woman

Religion teacher Luis Alberto González. / Rafa Avero

Catholic Church sacks gay religion teacher in Canary Islands

Txema Santana Las Palmas 1

Regional government had already ratified former priest Luis Alberto González’s position for the next academic year

Irishman who threw suitcase full of cocaine out of hotel window arrested

Ferran Bono Valencia

The 39-year-old, known only as P. G., was caught in possession of 55 kilos of the drug in Valencia

“El Nene” makes the victory sign in a private photo taken in January.

Is this really the end of drug baron “El Nene”?

Mohamed Taieb Ahmed, once responsible for up to a 10th of all cannabis entering Spain, is missing after his speedboat was reportedly ambushed off the Moroccan coast

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EDITOR’S PICK

The lobby of the Mercer Hotel in Barcelona. / Massimiliano Minocri

Why hotel guests always know best

Comments on sites such as TripAdvisor have a huge influence over Spanish chains – and can also give smaller players a helping hand

Spain’s first video-rental store still holding out

Founded in 1980 in Barcelona, Video Instan continues to resist the challenge of the internet. But for how much longer?

This week’s movie releases

‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ is the most irreverent Marvel comic adaptation yet, while Sylvester Stallone unites an army of action stars for ‘The Expendables 3’

You can’t stop the party

Superstar DJ David Guetta finally made it to Mallorca to play a gig last week. Vicki McLeod finds out what the holdup was

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LATIN AMERICA

Video brings down Mexican congressional leaders

Coordinator and vice-coordinator of right-wing PAN ousted after release of footage shot at party

Death of Socialist presidential candidate in plane crash shocks Brazil

Eduardo Campos and six others died after their aircraft went down near Santos

Fidel’s diplomatic routine

Even as he turns 88, the Cuban leader continues to watch over the island

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

OPINION

The truth was painful but it set me free

Guido’s meeting with the biological family from which he was taken during Argentina’s military dictatorship fills the rest of us recovered grandchildren with strength

The latest in European science

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

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