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Court move deepens Spanish standoff over Catalan secession
Spain’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday halted a push by separatist regional Catalan lawmakers to set a road map toward independence by 2017, acting...
Catalan separatists rally in Barcelona to secede from Spain
Hundreds of thousands of separatist-minded Catalans swarmed Barcelona on Friday, giving enthusiastic backing to independence advocates who are hoping to...
Early count shows over 80 per cent of Catalans want independence
Over 80 per cent of the roughly two million people who took part in a symbolic independence referendum in Spain’s wealthy region of Catalonia on...
Defying Spanish govt, Catalan leader calls independence referendum
Catalonia’s president on Saturday formally called a referendum to decide whether Spain’s richest region should be independent, defying Madrid...
Inspired by Scotland’s ballot, Spain’s Catalans demand secession vote
Hundreds of thousands of Catalan separatists swarmed Barcelona on Thursday, waving independence flags and demanding a secession referendum that the Spanish...
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