by Marianne Barriaux with Roland Lloyd Parry  Agence France-Presse   BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Catalan leaders were preparing Wednesday to declare independence from Spain after a violence-hit referendum, defying a warning from the country’s king that national stability was in peril. As the European Union urged dialogue to ease the standoff between separatists in the northeastern region and Madrid, a regional government source said the independence declaration could be as early as Monday. The stalemate has morphed […]