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Barcelona school and residents create solar energy community
A secondary school and a residents’ association have teamed up with Barcelona city council to create a solar energy community with the capacity to grow – rooftop by rooftop – across large areas of the city. The solar panels on the roof of Quatre Cantons secondary school in the former industrial district of Poblenou supply power to the school and 30 households in the surrounding area.
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Barcelona’s radical plan to take back streets from cars
Introducing "superblocks."
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Barcelona lab finds treatment that slows down Alzheimer's
Findings open new avenues for the research of neurodegenerative disorders
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Violent protests break out in Barcelona - riot police on scene
RIOTS broke out in Barcelona this evening after a High Court announced the temporary imprisonment of six pro-independence ministers. They have been accused of rebellion, sedition and misappropriation. Pictures from Barcelona show riot police clashing with protestors in the centre of the Catalonian capital. More than 2,000 people took to the streets tongiht to protest against the imprisonment of several top pro independance politicians.
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Singer Shakira under investigation in Spain for possible tax evasion
Pop music star Shakira is under investigation in Spain for possible tax evasion during the three years before she officially moved to Barcelona, Spanish authorities said Tuesday. Shakira switched residences in 2015 from the Bahamas to Barcelona, where she lives with her partner, Barca soccer player Gerard Pique, and the couple’s two sons. Spanish tax authorities suspect the Colombian singer already lived in the northeast city between 2012 and 2014, when she allegedly failed to pay income taxes in Spain.
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First flat in country sold using only bitcoins
In the southern region of Tarragona, the first flat in the country has been sold using nothing but bitcoin as legal tender for the transaction. A real estate agency, with its headquarters in Barcelona, is committed to using bitcoins as a form of payment in the buying and selling of property. According to Víctor Monreal, the executive director of Mister Piso, the company behind the deal, using bitcoins will accelerate sales and revitalize the housing sector. “Interest is growing,” he stated.
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Barcelona abandons Windows and Office, goes with Linux instead
In another entire-city-abandons-Microsoft affair, Barcelona has announced that it’s dumping Windows and Office in order to migrate to Linux and other open source solutions. The idea is, obviously enough, to save money by not paying subscription fees to Microsoft, because the beauty of open source software is that it’s free.
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In the 'fearless city', Barcelona residents take charge
We rarely see residents of a city successfully push back in defence of their needs against the power of finance capital, which seeks to make money from the city. But Barcelona shows it can be done.
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Spain has arrested 12 officials, seized 45,000 letters, and confiscated 1.3 million posters and flyers in a bid to stop Catalonia's independence vote
Spanish police have raided three regional government offices in Catalonia and arrested 12 senior officials, less than two weeks before the region's proposed vote to separate from Spain, according to the Guardian. Catalonian officials said Spain's Guardia Civil, or paramilitary national police, searched several government departments, including the offices of the presidency, economic affairs, and foreign relations on Wednesday morning.
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Barcelona's iconic Sagrada Familia church has been evacuated by anti-terror police
Catalan police evacuated the iconic Sagrada Familia church in central Barcelona after a bomb scare, after a "suspicious" van was parked near the church. The surrounding streets were also cleared and public transport was diverted. An anti-terrorism operation was announced after concern was raised over the vehicle, which had two people inside. No one was detained.
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Imam accused of masterminding Barcelona attacks led “normal” life
When Abdelbaki Es Satty came to Ripoll, a small town of 10,000 people in Catalonia’s Girona province, around 100 kilometers north of Barcelona, in 2015, Muslims here were grateful. “It is getting harder to find an imam, so it was a big surprise when he turned up,” says Hammou Minhaj, the secretary of a section of Ripoll’s Muslim community, known as Annour.
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Scared but defiant, Barcelona marches to reclaim city from terrorists
Thousands of Spaniards set out on a pilgrimage of peace Friday along the same street that was a scene of horror less than 24 hours before. Under the hot Mediterranean sun, they clapped and paused at makeshift memorials to the dead along La Rambla — the boulevard that is ancient Barcelona’s beating heart.
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British boy killed in Barcelona attack
A seven-year-old boy with dual British-Australian nationality was killed in the Barcelona terror attack, Catalan police have confirmed. Julian Cadman's family had appealed for information after he apparently becoming separated from his mother. He is one of 13 people to have been killed when a van ploughed into crowds on Barcelona's Las Ramblas on Thursday.
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Barcelona Jews reject their rabbi’s predictions of doom after attack
A spokesman for the Barcelona Jewish Community on Friday rejected predictions of doom from the local chief rabbi, vowing that the city’s Jews would not abandon the city in the wake of the deadly attack by Islamic terrorists.
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Brit ignored safety warnings to comfort dying boy in Barcelona terror attack because he reminded him of his own son
Harry Athwal, 44, from Birmingham had been holidaying in Spain when the attackers drove down Las Ramblas at speed, killing 13 people and injuring more than 100. One of their victims was a young boy aged about seven but hero Athwal refused to let him die alone. The 44-year-old project manager was in Barcelona visiting his sister for a spontaneous trip to celebrate his own son Khye’s eighth birthday.
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Barcelona terror suspect is '17-year-old who stole brother's identity'
Police are hunting four men thought to be behind the two terror attacks which killed 14 people in Catalonia, amid fears the death toll could have been much higher had the group not been forced into action by an accidental explosion. Moussa Oukabir, Mohamed Hychami, Younes Abouyaaqoub and Said Aallaa have been named in Spanish press as suspected members of the 12-strong terror cell which plotted Europe's latest terrorist outrage.
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Intelligence indicates Barcelona was more than ISIS-inspired attack, sources say
Law enforcement officials tell CBS News there is intelligence that indicates the Barcelona attack that left 14 dead and more than 100 injured was more than just an ISIS-inspired attack. CBS News national security analyst and former homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush, Fran Townsend, said on "CBS This Morning" the attack looks like it was "much more directly controlled than merely inspired."
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Barcelona Terrorist Suspect Recently Ranted Against Israel On Facebook
A man allegedly connected to the van attack in Barcelona which killed as many as 13, was recently railing over the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Driss Oukabir, who has been arrested in connection with the attack, shared a post on July 21 showing graphic photos and video of a child appearing to be manhandled by an Israeli soldier.
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Spanish police stop second attack after 13 killed in Barcelona
Five attackers are shot in Cambrils after an earlier car attack in Barcelona left 13 dead.
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Catalonia to declare immediate independence if 'yes' wins referendum
Catalonia will declare independence "immediately" if the region's voters opt to separate from Spain in a referendum, its ruling coalition said Tuesday as it unveiled a bill aimed at ensuring the vote takes place despite Madrid's refusal. "If the majority of votes are for creating a Catalan republic, obviously independence will have to be declared immediately," said Gabriela Serra, a member of the separatist coalition that governs Catalonia.
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