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Google News to start excluding all Spanish media from service

Decision by search engine giant comes in wake of government’s Intellectual Property Law, which will require aggregators to start paying “fair compensation” to publishers

Ride-share service Uber pledges to pay fines incurred by users in Spain

Announcement comes in week a judge ordered the US company to cease operations in Spain ahead of court case filed by taxi association

Arai (Honda), Button, Magnussen, Alonso and Dennis on Thursday. / McLaren

McLaren confirms Alonso’s return for 2015 Formula 1 season

Spanish double world champion, who left the team in 2007 after a major falling out, will race alongside Briton Jenson Button

PM’s chief of staff paid highest government salary, website reveals

New transparency project lists yearly payments to ministers, secretaries of state and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy

Spanish government launches first transparency website

Administration to release 500,000 details on how it spends public funds, but some information will remain under wraps

A child plays in El Gallinero in April 2011. / Gorka Lejarcegi

298 children living like Nigeria’s poorest outside Madrid — report

Youngsters in El Gallinero shantytown live among trash, drugs and violence only 12km from city center, says Save the Children

A group of men search for hash on a beach in Chiclana. / J. C. T.

Hashish galore!

Pedro Espinosa Chiclana de la Frontera

Locals are flocking to a Cadiz beach in the hope of recovering packages of drugs lost by smugglers during a police chase

Canary Islands judges rule against suspending oil exploration

Appeal had been filed by regional government in bid to stop Spanish energy firm Repsol prospecting in the area

SOCCER VIOLENCE

Interior Ministry sacks Depor, Atleti security chiefs after fan brawl

El País Madrid

State secretary Francisco Martínez says clubs failed to pass on “detailed” information about ‘ultras’ planned journey to Madrid

The mass kissing protest in Burger King on Saturday. / AP

Expulsion of gay couple from Burger King spurs kissing protest

The two young men were ejected from the Madrid restaurant by a security guard after a family complained

ROYAL CORRUPTION

Prosecutor seeks 18 years for king’s brother-in-law Urdangarin

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca

Anti-corruption attorney’s 500-page document for Nóos case judge also asks for Spain’s Infanta Cristina to be acquitted

King bars royals from accepting favors or expensive presents

Minor courtesy gifts will still be admitted, although no price limit has been established and is instead left to “common sense”

Seized wild mushrooms in Soria. / CASTILLA Y LEÓN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT

Spain’s mushroom mafias

The economic crisis is driving a growing trade in illegally collected fungi that has seen gangs strip forests of valuable species

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EDITOR’S PICK

Lines at the Princesa movie theater in Madrid. / J. VILLANUEVA

A record year for Spanish cinema

Boosted by the all-conquering ‘Ocho apellidos vascos,’ homegrown films have taken €123 million so far in 2014, the highest figure ever

Around Spain in 20 miniadventures

From canoeing in Asturias to dogsledding in the Pyrenees, check out a countrywide selection of outdoor thrills and spills

First direct freight train from China reaches Madrid

The route, which crosses eight countries, is the longest in the world and takes 21 days to reach the Spanish capital

CINEMA

This week’s movie releases

Drunken war vet Bill Murray turns after-school carer in ‘St. Vincent’ while Chadwick Boseman incarnates funk legend James Brown in ‘Get on Up’

Put down Orwell, pick up Spanish literature

Chris Finnigan checks out Hispabooks, a small publishing house in Madrid that is changing perceptions of Spain abroad

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LATIN AMERICA

Economic differences bog down climate change negotiations in Lima

Developed nations have given just 10% of target amount for Green Climate Fund

Ibero-American Summit reinvents itself in a less ambitious format

Leaders leave thorny issues aside to reach an agreement on a “soft” agenda

Latin America seeks new growth model based on quality education

Leaders at Ibero-American Summit also propose sweeping structural reforms

Divisions threaten to spoil Ibero-American Summit

M. G. / J. M. A. Veracruz, Mexico

The absence of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Bolivia deepens split

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