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BID FOR INDEPENDENCE

Madrid will not stop Catalan vote if private groups organize it

Supreme Court turns down Barcelona’s attempt to have suspension on campaigning lifted at the last minute

Catalonia maintains November vote despite suspension of process

Miquel Noguer / El País Barcelona

Mas takes central government to Supreme Court over “violation of the fundamental rights of Catalans”

Civil Guard arrests 10 for justifying terrorism on social networks

Detainees accused of calling for leading Spanish politicians to be blown up by car bombs. Two minors are also under investigation

Migrants with fever kept on beach for five hours over Ebola concerns

Txema Santana Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Canary Islands and national health authorities blame each other for delay in dealing with the 23 African arrivals, who were later driven away in a garbage truck

“I don’t know what went wrong, or if anything went wrong”

The Spanish nursing assistant who contracted Ebola, Teresa Romero, speaks to the press after being discharged from hospital. Her doctors admit they don’t know what cured her

The construction site for the new La Peineta stadium. / ÁLVARO GARCÍA

New Atlético Madrid soccer stadium delayed again

Club will not move in to La Peineta before summer 2017 after constructor decides to renegotiate deal in wake of property crash

Opera star Montserrat Caballé to pay fine to avoid jail for tax evasion

Jesús García Barcelona

Spanish soprano to hand over an expected further €250,000 after already returning the €500,000 she withheld in 2010

A NEW FORCE IN POLITICS

Podemos remains Spain’s third biggest political force — CIS poll

Anabel Díez Madrid

New leftist party rises to first place in terms of direct voter intention, state research institute survey shows

Leading parties blame meteoric rise of Podemos on corruption

Latest voter intention poll for EL PAÍS shows that newcomer to Spanish political scene would beat both PP and PSOE in elections

OPERATION PÚNICA

Púnica mastermind filled local Socialist HQ with infiltrators

Ex-Madrid Popular Party official Francisco Granados controlled the opposition in town of Valdemoro, where he served as mayor

PSM leader Tomás Gómez with Carlos Carpio in his octopus costume. / U. M.

The octopus on a €60,000 salary

Friend of arrested Parla mayor who dressed up for election rally received top-grade wage, despite being lowly municipal worker

One of the two inhabitants of Vilardemuros, in Lugo. / nacho gámez

Spain’s dying interior

In almost half the country’s provinces, a third of inhabitants are 65 or over, while one vast area has a lower population density than Lapland

ECONOMY

Brussels reduces Spain’s 2015 growth forecast from 2.1% to 1.7%

Claudi Pérez Brussels

Blame for downward revision pinned on sluggishness of the euro zone and underperformance of Spanish exports

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EDITOR’S PICK

La Gatoteca owner Eva Aznar with three of her furry tenants. / S. S.

The purrfect cup of coffee? Inside Madrid’s cat café

Offering a free feline to stroke with your order, La Gatoteca has spent the last year helping rehome abandoned pets

This week’s movie releases

El País Madrid

‘Batman’ director Christopher Nolan sends Matthew McConaughey to the stars in ‘Interstellar’

Traditional stores face closure as Boyer rent law ends

Landscape of Spanish cities set to change dramatically from 2015 once landlords are free to hike payments by 1,000%

“Make it yours, this festival is for you”

Vicki McLeod meets the founder and director of Mallorca’s Evolution film fair

SOCIAL NETWORKS

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LATIN AMERICA

Witness accuses Iguala mayor of personally shooting a rival

Kidnap survivor watched José Luis Abarca shoot a labor leader in the face months before the disappearance of 43 students

Venezuela blocks four foreign airlines from selling tickets

Most carriers operating in the country have reduced services in response to state’s failure to pay them foreign currency

96% of Peru land set for exploitation inhabited by local communities

Report warns of conflict risk between residents and mining, oil and logging firms

Maduro tries to placate radicals with security reform

Appointment of chief of new commission completes Venezuelan president’s “police revolution” reshuffle

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