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SPAIN

Ex-Falangist prior denies access to exhume Franco

The prior of the monument where Francisco Franco’s remains are buried, La Valle de los Caídos, Santiago Cantera, has said he will not grant the government access to the site to undertake the exhumation...

Global warming in an unruly climate

Culture

Discovering the image at CaixaForum’s ’Una certa foscor’

society

Traffic accidents cause two deaths in two days

Traffic accidents cause two deaths in two days in Catalonia. A 25-year-old motorcyclist died on Tuesday before nine at night. He fell from his motorcycle on the B-124 road between Sabadell and Castellar....

Denmark

Six dead and sixteen injured in train crash

Six passengers were killed and sixteen more were injured yesterday in a train crash that took place on Storebaelt bridge, one of the Great Belt bridges linking Denmark’s main islands, Denmark officials...

Brazil

Bolsonaro endangers nature reserves

Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in yesterday as President of Brazil. Hours after taking office the far-right politician signed a decree that gives the ministry of agriculture (which is controlled by agricultural...

culture

Dr. Calypso give goodbye concerts in Barcelona

Accident rates continue to rise

society

Passers-by trap would-be robber dressed as Santa

A group of passers-by trapped a robber disguised as Santa Claus and wearing a clown mask as he started to run away. He had been trying to rob a jewelery shop in Les Corts in Barcelona with another man,...

society

All Primary Care Centres to close at 8pm as of 2019

All Primary Care Centers (CAP in Catalan) are going to start closing at eight in the evening, in a bid to standardize opening hours, in accordance with a regulation from the Department of Health that is...