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Catalan president meets Spanish govt to discuss policing of referendum
Catalonia's president is meeting representatives of the Spanish government to discuss the policing of next Sunday's disputed referendum on independence.
President Carles Puigdemont is holding talks with Spain's Secretary of...
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Parents occupy Barcelona school to protect polling station
Parents and children have been camping out at a school in the Gracia neighbourhood of Barcelona to protect it from possible closure by police ahead of Sunday's referendum.
The school is set to be used as a polling station...
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Voters casts ballots in Catalonia referendum
Polling has begun in a banned referendum on Catalonia's independence, with the first voters casting ballots amid cheers in some of the designated polling stations.
Parents, children and activist volunteers had occupied some...
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Police break into Ramon Llull school, scuffles
Riot police forcibly removed people in scuffles and kicked in the door of Ramon Llull school in Barcelona on Sunday.
The confrontations occurred as voting started in a banned referendum on the region's secession that has...
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Delays as voters wait to cast ballots in Catalan referendum
People were seen queuing and waiting at the polling station in Escola Diputacio in Barcelona on Sunday to vote in a banned referendum on Catalonia's independence.
Electoral volunteers at some polling centres in Catalonia's...
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Crowds cheer as Catalan regional police officers leave school
Catalans were defying rain and police orders to leave designated polling stations on Sunday ahead of a banned referendum on the region's secession that has challenged Spain's political and institutional order.
The country's...
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Voters cast ballots in Catalonia referendum
Polling has begun in a banned referendum on Catalonia's independence, with the first voters casting ballots amidst cheers in some of the designated polling stations.
Parents, children and activist volunteers had occupied...
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Police hold back crowd at Ramon Llull school
Scuffles broke out as police tried to hold back people who had come to vote in a banned referendum on Catalonia's independence outside a polling station in the Ramon Llull school in Barcelona on Sunday.
Spain's...
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Police vehicles leave port on morning of Catalan independence vote
Police reinforcements were being deployed on the streets of Barcelona early on Sunday, hours before a controversial vote for Catalonia's independence was expected to take place.
The Spanish government has called in...
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Regional ploice applauded at polling station in Catalonia
People outside a polling station in the town of Vic in Barcelona province broke into applause as local Catalan police officers left.
Catalans were defying rain and police orders to leave designated polling stations Sunday...
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Fireman strike in support of Catalan independence
Firefighters took part in a day of protests across Catalonia on Tuesday after Labour union and grassroots pro-independence groups urged workers to hold partial or full-day strikes.
The move is in response to alleged police...
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Catalan voters continue to cast ballot in referendum
People in a school in Barcelona continued voting on Sunday in Catalonia's independence referendum.
The day has seen Spanish riot police smashing their way into Catalan polling stations to try to halt the disputed...
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Catalans protest violence in referendum vote
People took to the streets of Barcelona on Tuesday to protest the use of force by police that left hundreds injured during a disputed referendum on the region's secession.
More than 890 civilians were treated for injuries,...
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Pro independence rally near Barcelona
Pro-Catalan independence protesters held a rally on the outskirts of Barcelona on Thursday, close to a pro-Spanish unionist rally further down the street.
Separatists held red flowers and a banner exclaiming "Let them go!...
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Catalan police chief leaves court after questioning
Spain's National Court on Friday questioned two senior officers of Catalonia's regional police force and the leaders of two pro-independence civic groups who have been placed under investigation for sedition.
The case is...
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Police remain on guard at Barcelona's main port
Police activity continued at Barcelona's main port with dozens of cars leaving the dock where police forces have been based since last week's disputed independence referendum in Catalonia.
Spanish authorities contracted...
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People gather for non-violent demo in Barcelona square
Protesters filled the Placa Sant Jaume in Barcelona on Saturday to express their support for dialogue instead of confrontation in the standoff over Catalonian independence.
People clapped, chanted and held signs including...
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Caixabank board to discuss move out of Catalonia
Spain's government has approved a decree that would make it easier for companies in Catalonia to move the location of their official registration out of the region.
The move will allow the relocation of Caixabank, Spain's...
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Catalan President arrives at regional parliament
Catalonia's regional leader, Carles Puigdemont, prepared to address parliament on Tuesday in a highly anticipated session that could spell the birth of a new republic, marking a critical point in a decade-long standoff between Catalan...
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Interior and exterior shots of the Catalonian Parliament
Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont was expected to address the Catalan parliament on Tuesday evening in a session that some have portrayed as the staging of an independence declaration for the north-eastern region of 7.5...
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Anti-Catalan independence march in Barcelona
Hundreds of thousands of people rallied on Sunday in downtown Barcelona to protest against the plans of Catalonia's regional government to secede from the rest of Spain.
The march was the largest pro-union showing since...
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Demonstrators march to support Spanish union
Thousands of people joined a rally in Barcelona on Sunday to protest against the Catalan government's push for secession from the rest of Spain.
The rally comes a week after separatist leaders of the Catalan government held...
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Unionists march in Barcelona to celebrate National Day
Hundreds of pro-unity demonstrators gathered in a Barcelona for a march in support of maintaining a unified Spain on the country's national day.
Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont announced on Tuesday that he was...
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Huge demo in Barcelona demanding release of arrested activists
Thousands of people were protesting in Barcelona, on Tuesday, to demand the release of two Catalan pro-independence activists jailed a day earlier by Spanish authorities in a sedition case.
The demonstrators flooded a main...