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SPANISH Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called on the Catalan regional government yesterday to say whether it had declared independence or not.
Confusion reigned after Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont’s Tuesday night speech in the wake of October 1’s unilateral independence referendum for the autonomous community, which Madrid said was unconstitutional and tried to violently suppress.
Following a session of the regional parliament, Mr Puigdemont said he was issuing an independence declaration — but suspending it for weeks for negotiations with Madrid.
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
We must remember Morocco’s land grab of the Sahrawi people’s territory continues with French and British support, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG, looking into the origins of the annexation
