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TV shows fined for showing sexual content at children’s viewing times

Antena 3 and Telecinco will pay €150,000 each for airing explicit stories about prostitution during popular morning shows

Minister suggests regulating burqa use in new Citizen Safety Law

José Precedo Madrid

Interior chief Jorge Fernández Díaz says he personally believes full covering denigrates women’s dignity, but leaves final say to Congress

British cancer patient Ashya King reunited with parents in Málaga

Antonio Jesús Mora Caballero Seville

But Brett and Naghemeh King cannot take five-year-old out of hospital to undergo alternative treatment in Czech Republic until UK court returns custody to them

Parents of sick British boy Ashya King released from Spanish prison

Basketball World Cup announcer fired for making sexist comment

El País Madrid

Carlos Olías de Lima made remark over PA system about “spending a night with a cheerleader” during performance at game in Bilbao on Saturday

Why basketball fans are up in arms about World Cup TV coverage

Congolese journalist Caddy Adzuba. / claudio álvarez

Congolese journalist to receive Prince of Asturias Concord Prize

Caddy Adzuba, 33, honored for her work denouncing violence against women in her war-torn home country

Socialist chief warns Catalan vote will “create greater fracture lines”

Pere Ríos Barcelona

Pedro Sánchez meets with regional premier Artur Mas to suggest alternatives to planned November referendum

The ‘Good Samaritans’ who only want to help other Spaniards

Alba Casas Manzano Madrid

Anti-immigration group sets up soup kitchen in Madrid, prompting fears among locals of clashes with nearby anarchist groups

ECONOMY

Wage cuts causing Spanish households to struggle, says OECD

Carlos Yárnoz Paris

International organization warns Spain is over-reliant on temporary jobs but lauds its efforts to reduce unemployment

Crime writer Alexis Ravelo admits he created fake US author M. A. West. / Quique Curbelo

Spanish writer confesses to ‘fabricating’ US pulp author

Canarian Alexis Ravelo reveals that book he claimed to have unearthed by forgotten 1950s novelist was all his own work

POLITICS

Minister: Ex-Catalan chief may have committed “several crimes”

Cristóbal Montoro seeks to link Jordi Pujol’s hidden fortune to independence drive in Congress address, explaining that Tax Agency first started investigating family between 2000 and 2002

ECONOMY

Jobless figures rise again in August

El País Madrid

Seasonal factors to blame for new claims, with year-on-year fall coming in highest in the statistical series

Telefónica chief calls on EU to end privileges for internet giants

Ramón Muñoz Santander

César Alierta calls former EU information society commissioner Viviane Reding “the biggest disaster that Europe ever had”

Police chief resigns after being targeted in Halloween tragedy probe

Agencies Madrid

Judge brings investigation into fatal crush at 2012 Madrid party to a close with the naming of 16 official suspects, including the event organizer and the medical team