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turkey

Kurdish prisoner dies while on hunger strike

The Kurdish prisoner Zülküf Gezen, who was serving a life sentence in Turkey, died on Sunday night while on hunger strike. Many kurdish prisoners are on hunger strike to demand the leader of the Kurdistan...

CATALAN DEMO

Huge crowd figure discrepancies from Saturday

BREXIT

May crosses fingers and sticks to her deal

Theresa May, the beleaguered United Kingdom Prime Minister, asked for her ministers of parliament to be “pragmatic”, and to rally behind her Brexit deal, which they have rejected twice. She said that...

Eco-fever spreads to European elections

Buy organic, recycle and reuse, ride a bicycle, and vote green. Eco-fever, spreading thanks to a huge global student protest movement, has spread to the European elections. With a debilitated social-democrat...

INDONESIA

Dozens dead in flooding in Indonesia

At least 73 people have died and 60 are missing in Indonesia because of flooding in the province of Papua, in the east. Rescue operations are ongoing, but the rain fallen this weekend continues to cause...

BARCELONA

Chamber of Commerce elections

The Barcelona Chamber of Commerce is preparing a campaign to incentivise voting in its May elections, as well as simply raising awareness of the elections themselves. They are getting ready to release...

Sánchez: “Catalonia will not be free, under me”

Questioning the defence

POINT MADE

Read between Collboni’s lines

It is said that one should read between a politician’s lines. It is usually in a few sentences, sometimes one, where their true intentions for the future are hidden: a few key phrases in the midst of...

Catalans take over Madrid