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INDEPENDENCE BID

Catalan leader sets one-month deadline to decide on early elections

El País / EFE Madrid

Deputy PM says Madrid government will respect Attorney General’s Office decision on whether to file complaint over non-binding November 9 sovereignty ballot

Spanish PM calls unofficial Catalan sovereignty vote a “failure”

State prosecutors postpone Catalan self-rule vote complaint

Miquel Noguer / Anabel Díez / El País Barcelona / Madrid

Attorneys are divided over who to target besides Catalonia premier Artur Mas, and what to charge them with

Madrid government meddling in Catalan vote case – prosecutors

INTERNATIONAL

Government, opposition close to deal on recognizing Palestine

Miguel González Madrid

Israel responds to news of negotiations on the symbolic move, saying that the Spanish motion “is not useful”

POLITICS

Plagued by corruption, PP holds “auditions” for mayoral candidates

María Lillo Madrid

Madrid party chief Esperanza Aguirre seeking to protect herself from future scandals

CORRUPTION CASES

Isabel Pantoja, Cristina de Borbón and Rosalía Iglesias.

The good wives

José Manuel Romero

The treatment of the spouses of corruption suspects in Spain has varied a great deal from case to case

Supreme Court to investigate ex-Andalusia premiers in ERE case

Reyes Rincón Madrid

Role of Socialist politicians Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñan to be examined in scandal, which involved illicit payouts from a fund designed to help firms make severance payments

“Why do they treat us immigrants like animals in Europe?”

Txema Santana Las Palmas 1

The African migrants who were removed from a Canary Islands beach in a garbage truck out of fear they had Ebola recount their experiences

Jihadists arrested in Ceuta were planning attacks in Spain

José María Irujo Madrid

“We have the jihad here. We don’t need to go to Syria,” said one member of Islamist cell under High Court investigation for recruiting 14 young men, most from the North African exclave

Skulls, skeletons and shrimp: report lists macabre medical faculty finds

Patricia Ortega Dolz Madrid

Lecturer describes Dantesque scene discovered on roof of Madrid university’s anatomy department, contradicting official version of events

A mummy on the rooftop

The Civil Guard has recruited Hulk, Iron Man and other characters.

Iron Man teams up with Civil Guard to promote internet safety

Force recruits Marvel superheroes and Disney characters for school workshops about using the internet responsibly

POLITICAL CORRUPTION

Thirty arrests made throughout Spain in latest corruption raid

José Antonio Hernández / Javier Martín-Arroyo Madrid / Seville

Politicians, public employees and civil servants were allegedly involved in bid-rigging scheme related to gardening services

One of the fraud suspects arrives at court in Teruel. / Antonio García

Major pharmaceutical distributor probed over illegal drug exports

Maribel Marín / Jaime Prats Madrid / Valencia

Civil Guard operation places leading Spanish supplier Alliance Healthcare at center of investigation into nationwide network that “diverted” state-subsidized medicines for sale abroad