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Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki flashes a victory sign in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. Delegations from the European Union member states and from Middle East and northern Africa countries are meeting Monday in Barcelona, Spain, to discuss the crisis in Gaza where a fragile pause in fighting is set to expire. Forty-two delegations will gather at the Union for the Mediterranean event with many represented by their foreign ministers. Israel is not attending. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Palestinian diplomat appeals for peace in Gaza at a meeting between EU and Arab nations in Spain
By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press
Mon,11/27/23-2:41AM , 153 Reads
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hours before Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their expiring cease-fire by two more days, the top Palestinian diplomat made a plea during a Monday meeting of European Union members and Arab nations for a definitive
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A Catalan pro-independence protestor throws a stone during clashes with police in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Thousands of ordinary citizens got into legal trouble for their parts in Catalonia’s illegal independence bid that brought Spain to the brink of rupture six years ago. Now they are hoping to be saved. Spain’s acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is negotiating with Catalan separatist parties on the possibility of issuing a sweeping amnesty for the separatists in exchange for their helping him form a new national government in Madrid. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

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Spain’s leader mulls granting amnesty to thousands of Catalan separatists in order to stay in power
By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press
Wed,10/18/23-11:08PM , 60 Reads
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona accountant Oriol Calvo ran afoul of the law when he was arrested in 2019 during a mass protest by supporters of Catalonia's independence from Spain that turned violent. A court found him guilty of public disorder and of aggressive behavior toward a police officer — offenses he denies.
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Firefighters try to extinguish a forest fire in Fuente la Reina, Castellon de la Plana, Spain, March 29, 2023. Spain suffered the biggest losses from wildfires of any European Union country last year amid a record-hot 2022, and there is worry that this year’s fire season could also be bad. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz, File)

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With record heat and drought-stricken woods, Spain’s Catalonia faces perfect wildfire conditions
By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press
Sat,06/24/23-11:06PM , 157 Reads
SOLSONA, Spain (AP) — Surveying the hills covered with near bone-dry pines stretching to the Pyrenees in the distance, Asier Larrañaga has reason to be on guard.
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A worker walks over the pipeline that transports seawater to filters at Europe's largest desalination plant for drinking water located in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Europe's largest desalination plant for drinking water had largely remained idle since its construction near Barcelona over a decade ago. But since a prolonged drought gripped Spain, the plant has been running at full throttle. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Drought-struck Barcelona quenches thirst with costly desalination
By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press
Mon,05/29/23-1:04AM , 107 Reads
EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT, Spain (AP) — Where once the population of Barcelona drank mostly from its rivers and wells, Spain’s second city now relies upon a labyrinth-like mesh of green, blue and purple pipes inside an industrial plant to keep it from going thirsty amid a
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