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CORRUPTION IN SPAIN

Civil Guard probes ruling Catalan party over illegal commissions

Investigators enter headquarters and foundation of premier Artur Mas’s CDC as part of inquiry into illegal payments construction firm allegedly made in exchange for public contracts

Ruling Catalan party: prosecutor wants “to influence election”

Olga Chen / Miquel Noguer Barcelona

CDC official insists group has nothing to hide from corruption investigators examining alleged illegal commissions

latin America

A group assault on a beach in Rio. / M. C. (Agência O Globo)

Río de Janeiro bars black youths from its most famous beaches

Police arrest poor youngsters from nearby slums en route to Ipanema and Copacabana in attempt to combat theft

Grandma who refused to demolish home freed after three days in jail

Txema Santana Betancuria

Government pardons 63-year-old Canary Islander who failed to comply with court order to tear down illegal extension built on protected area

Madrid Mayor Manuela Carmena gets star treatment in Buenos Aires

Carlos E. Cué Buenos Aires

Argentinean President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sees Spanish capital’s new leftist leader as a symbol of change

ECONOMY

Economy growing at pre-crisis levels again on back of consumption

El País Madrid

Spain sees second-quarter GDP rise of 1.0%, the biggest increase in eight years. Investment in capital goods also driving expansion

US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Jorge Ramos: “Trump offers horror, a white utopia free of migrants”

Luis Barbero Miami 2

The Hispanic journalist kicked out of a news conference by the Republican hopeful calls him “authoritarian”

Video: Trump ejects Ramos from his press conference. / Reuters - Live

Trump kicks star Hispanic news anchor out of press conference

Leading Univision journalist Jorge Ramos had been trying to ask Republican front-runner about his immigration views

latin america

Ministers meet to ease tension over Colombia-Venezuela border crisis

Despite friendly words, representatives offer few specific solutions to the disputes between the two nations

latin America

Maradona to bring seven charges of theft against his ex-wife

Alejandro Rebossio Buenos Aires 1

Retired Argentinean soccer star will take Claudia Villafañe to court after three attempts at mediation fail to produce a settlement

Minister calls attack on young right-wing politician “unspeakable”

Inmaculada Sequí, an 18-year-old local Vox party leader in Cuenca, was allegedly beaten up outside her home

TERRORISM

Arrested jihadists were planning “massacres” in Spain and Morocco

Spanish and Moroccan police believe 14 alleged members of cell broken up in Madrid and north African nation wanted to cause “mass panic”

ECONOMY

“China is dealing with a heart transplant,” says Bridgewater head

Ray Dalio, the chairman of the world’s biggest hedge fund, talks to EL PAÍS from his Mallorca vacation home about Spain, the Chinese crisis and the Greek bailout

Spanish stock market loses 5%, its biggest fall in three years

Ibex 35 registers similar drop to other European bourses hit by fallout from Chinese collapse on Monday

LATIN AMERICA

The mysteries hidden atop Ecuador’s tallest volcano

Tour guide discovers the remains of three people who were buried in the snow on Chimborazo more than 20 years ago

Chris Stewart in his kitchen at El Valero. / uly martín

‘Driving Over Lemons’ writer Chris Stewart takes a sabbatical

The British author is taking a year off from writing to repair his homestead in Granada’s Alpujarras

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Editor's pick

Activists protest against bullfighting in Bilbao in 2010. / L. A. G.

Are Spaniards turning their backs on bullfighting?

Figures show that the number of official fights is down, yet both attendance and bull events at local fiestas are on the rise

Why is nobody changing Spain’s long working hours?

Most people agree it would be better for health and productivity, so what’s holding things up?

What foreign tourists spend their money on in Spain

BBVA bank’s interactive report uses credit card purchases to track visitors’ Spanish vacation expenditure

SOCIAL NETWORKS

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EL PAÍS IN MANDARIN

从儿童洗碗工向大企业家的转变

(How Spain’s Chinese immigrants went from dishwashers to doctors)

Verne in english

Ricky Martin has begun an online crusade against Donald Trump.

#LatinosUnite: Ricky Martin starts online crusade against Trump

Singer expresses anger over politician’s expulsion of reporter Jorge Ramos as other Hispanic stars also call for end to xenophobic slurs

Is the Tomatina festival a waste of good tomatoes?

One Castellón firm is responsible for supplying all the thousands of kilos of fruit thrown at the famous Valencia fiesta

Eight cartoons demonstrating why we hate selfie sticks

One Barcelona illustrator’s drawing about the cumbersome contraptions has proved a social networks smash

MOST-READ ARTICLES

Planet’s first flower bloomed in Spain 130 million years ago

The oldest angiosperm in the fossil record, ‘Montsechia’ grew in what are now parts of Cuenca and Lleida, research team finds

In Gibraltar’s secret tunnels

Ana Carbajosa Gibraltar

An internet firm is using an historic WWII bunker within the Rock to safeguard online gambling and financial data

Flamenco star El Cigala gives emotionally charged concert just hours after wife’s death

Spanish singer pays tribute to spouse Amparo Fernández in Los Angeles

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