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catalan independence bid

Catalan premier to testify over last year’s informal self-rule vote

Thousands of supporters show up at the door of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia to reject what they see as unfair judicial targeting of Artur Mas

BASQUE POLITICS

Basque Popular Party chief resigns over post-ETA peace proposal

Arantza Quiroga infuriated victims’ associations and her own party with parliamentary motion suggesting separatist groups no longer needed to expressly reject terrorist group’s violence

catalan independence bid

2,000 people protest legal action against Catalan self-rule vote

Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau leads demonstration against charges filed over last November’s informal sovereignty referendum. Judges denounce the pressure as attack on their independence

latin america

Mexico searches for peasant activist who disappeared 41 years ago

Pablo de Llano Mexico City

Government offers reward for information about a rural leader who went missing during the dirty war against guerrillas

latin america
Ecobici

A cyclist checks out an Ecobici bike in Mexico City. / Saúl Ruiz

Why Latin America’s biggest bike rental service is about to get bigger

Marina Gómez-Robledo Mexico City

More residents in the Mexican capital are turning to bicycles to avoid the congested traffic on the streets

wealth

Number of millionaires in Spain drops by 21% in a year: Credit Suisse

Agencies Madrid

There are 360,000 people in Spain who can show personal assets of at least $1 million (about €900,000)

TRANSPORTATION

Spain’s high-speed AVE trains to offer free Wi-Fi internet access

Ramón Muñoz Madrid

Rail operator Renfe awards 10-year contract to Telefónica, which hopes to start bringing in service by end of 2015

ECONOMY

PP blames Socialists, Podemos for risk of missing deficit targets

Spokesperson for governing party responds to EC report stating that Spain is going to fall short of its reduction goals

tax avoidance

Big tech firms continue cutting profits to pay less tax in Spain

OECD presents global avoidance project targeting companies such as Apple, Google and Amazon

National Spain Day celebrations

Politicians who criticize Spain Day are “ignorant” and “dunces:” PP

Agencias Madrid

Spokesperson takes aim at leftist mayors, who described event as “celebration of a genocide” and “the massacre of a continent”

El Rey revista las tropas antes del desfile. / Javier Lizón (EFE)

Government dubs October 12 holiday “Day for Everybody”

Annual military parade, presided by King Felipe VI, took place in Madrid at cost of €800,000

US-SPAIN RELATIONS

US and Spain to seal deal over 1966 nuclear accident in Palomares

Joan Faus / Miguel González Washington / Madrid

Washington agrees to take away around 50,000 cubic meters of contaminated soil from air tragedy site to a safe storage place

latin america

Cuban doctors arrive at the airport in Monrovia, Liberia. / STRINGER (REUTERS)

Cuba pardons deserting doctors who applied for US parole program

Healthcare providers will be welcomed back with jobs and will not face sanctions, says President Raúl Castro

Latin America

Costa Rica’s unlikely hero against sexual harassment on the streets

Álvaro Murillo San José (Costa Rica)

A 22-year-old who published a video of a man trying to film beneath a woman’s skirt is fighting for his life after being attacked

The published image set next to the original photo on the right.

Spanish actress Inma Cuesta protests Photoshop retouching

‘El Periódico’ newspaper apologizes to star but says it never received the original image

HEALTH

A bartender pours a beer in a Madrid restaurant. / BERNARDO PEREZ

Is Spain an “alcoholic society”?

A new report from the World Health Organization says social acceptance of drinking makes it difficult to educate about abuse

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Editor's pick

Tourists pose for selfies on Las Ramblas in Barcelona. / Juan Barbosa

Why Barcelona is Spain’s stolen cellphone capital

Gangs are racking up huge profits by using robbed SIM cards – often belonging to foreign tourists – to call premium-rate numbers

Galicia airfield to become €55m drone research center

Defense Ministry and regional government to pay firms to conduct studies into the craft at former Nazi base

Javier Bardem performs surprise dance at U2’s Barcelona concert

Actor and wife Penélope Cruz join in with Irish group on stage

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Verne in English

Hervás’s image of the eclipse in Ibiza. / José Antonio Hervás

How a Spaniard took a supermoon photo that caught the eye of NASA

Space agency chose José Antonio Hervás’s stunning composite image of Monday’s lunar eclipse in Ibiza as its picture of the day

When Spaniards were the refugees

Many have been drawing comparisons between the Syrian refugee crisis and the exodus during Spain’s 1936-39 Civil War

Eight cartoons demonstrating why we hate selfie sticks

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

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INTERVIEW

“We will have to find homes elsewhere in the universe”

Physicist Stephen Hawking reflects upon the universe’s origins and his illness in an exclusive interview with EL PAÍS

Video: US tourists ask Madrileños to translate homophobic rant

Film is part of rights group’s campaign encouraging people to report hate crimes

‘Siesta,’ ‘fiesta’ and 17 other Spanish words ‘guiris’* use

A look at some of the terms from Spain that have become lingua franca over the centuries, from mosquito to matador

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