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BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Catalonia’s parliament is to hold a debate and vote Thursday on a new candidate for regional president, Jordi Turull, who risks being disqualified from holding office over his role in the region’s separatist drive. “I will propose to the chamber that Jordi Turull be candidate for president,” Catalan parliament speaker Roger Torrent told reporters late Wednesday, just hours after Turull was summoned to appear in court on Friday. Turull, a former […]
by Laurence BOUTREUX Agence France-Presse MADRID, Spain – More than a thousand protesters took to the streets in central Madrid on Friday as tensions remained high a day after violent clashes over the controversial death of a Senegalese street vendor. The protesters gathered in a square in the Lavapies district of the Spanish capital in the early evening, many of them young, dressed in black and wearing bandanas. Some shouted “kill police”, an AFP journalist […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Superstar Shakira has handed over more than 20 million euros ($24.6 million) to tax authorities in Spain, a report said Tuesday, accused of not paying taxes despite being a resident between 2011 and 2014. Catalan daily El Periodico reported that the Colombian award-winning singer had paid the money “to settle part of the debt claimed by Spain’s tax authorities”, corresponding to what she allegedly owes for 2011. The fiscal authorities filed […]
Egie Asis Eagle News Service MADRID, España— Miles de jubilados tomaron las calles de la capital el jueves para exigir lo que según ellos son pensiones “dignas.” Fuentes policiales cifraron entre 3.000 y 4.000 los manifestantes que intentaron acercarse al Congreso de los Diputados para protestar el estado de las pensiones. Este año, sube un 0.25%, una cifra que consideran insuficiente dada la inflación. Los manifestantes igual reclaman que en los Presupuestos Generales del Estado se destine […]
by Kieran Canning © Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Lionel Messi struck for the first time in nine games against Chelsea to give Barcelona the upper hand from the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Tuesday by salvaging a 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge. Willian’s fine strike just after the hour mark had put Chelsea in command after earlier hitting both posts in the first half. However, one moment of carelessness cost […]
by Kieran Canning © Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Eden Hazard admitted he must show more on the Champions League stage for Chelsea if he is to justify comparisons to five-time Ballon d’Or winners Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. Hazard goes head-to-head with Messi when Barcelona visit Stamford Bridge in the first leg of their last-16 clash on Tuesday. The Belgian has won Player of the Year awards for his part in leading Chelsea to […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Cristiano Ronaldo on Wednesday became the first player to score 100 Champions League goals for the same club when he found the net in Real Madrid’s last 16 clash at home to Paris Saint-Germain. Ronaldo reached the landmark when he converted a penalty on the stroke of half-time to equalize Adrien Rabiot’s opener. He now has a career total of 115 goals in the tournament. Leading Champions League scorers: 1. Cristiano Ronaldo 115 […]
by Laurence Thomann Agence France-Presse BUDAPEST, Hungary (AFP) — It was written in the stars that one day, Spanish star Antonio Banderas, who used to walk to school every morning past Pablo Picasso’s childhood home, would have to play the great painter. For years Malaga’s second most famous son has been turning down offers to play its greatest, knowing that he “would be looked at with a magnifying glass.” But finally, Banderas has said yes […]
by Daniel Bosque © Agence France-Presse BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Catalonia’s separatist parties have to decide in the coming days whether to set their differences aside and back ousted, exiled leader Carles Puigdemont or seek an alternative. Unlike other major independence movements in Scotland and Quebec, concentrated in one party, three different groupings make up Catalonia’s separatist camp, united in their will to break with Spain but often at odds with each other. These quarrels burst into […]
by Diego Urdaneta with Marianne Barriaux in Madrid © Agence France-Presse BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Divisions in Catalonia’s separatist bloc burst into the open Tuesday after the region’s parliamentary speaker postponed a crucial vote to reappoint ousted president Carles Puigdemont. Roger Torrent, who like Puigdemont is pro-independence but hails from a different party, announced last minute he had delayed the parliamentary session to ensure it could later go ahead in an “effective” way after Spain’s Constitutional Court […]
by Diego URDANETA (Agence France-Presse BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) – The speaker of Catalonia’s parliament postponed a crunch vote Tuesday to formally re-elect ousted president Carles Puigdemont into office, delaying his controversial comeback bid. But Roger Torrent defended Puigdemont’s right to be re-elected by Catalan lawmakers despite a court ban after separatist parties won a majority in December elections and the former regional leader was officially nominated as candidate for the presidency. “Today’s plenary session… is postponed,” he […]
by Daniel Bosque with Michaela Cancela-Kieffer in Madrid Agence France Presse BARCELONA, Spain – Catalonia’s parliament met Wednesday for the first time since it was dissolved following a failed bid to break from Spain in a session that will see separatists start the process to get sacked regional leader Carles Puigdemont back into power. Pro-independence parties are in the majority after winning regional elections on December 21 called by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to try and put […]
