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Rajoy gives up seat before PP congress
Spain’s former prime minister Mariano Rajoy yesterday resigned as MP for Madrid. Rajoy resigned as parliamentary leader following the no confidence vote by the PSOE’s Pedro Sánchez two weeks ago and will cease to be president of the PP on July 21 and return to his profession as a property registrar. On June 5 when he announced he would not continue as party president he convened an extraordinary party congress to elect a new leader. It will be the 1st time the PP has elected its president.
Pakistan’s most wanted terrorist killed by US
staffPakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a U.S.-Afghan air strike in Afghanistan, an Afghan Defence Ministry official said on Friday, a killing likely to ease tension between the United States and Pakistan. An official at the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan confirmed Fazlullah was killed on Thursday. Fazlullah was Pakistan’s most-wanted militant, notorious for attacks including a 2014 school massacre that killed 132 children and the 2012 shooting of schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
Lodging found for immigrant minors sleeping in court
staffThe Generalitat has decided to accommodate unaccompanied immigrant minors who have arrived in Barcelona in youth hostels so they do not have to sleep in the capital’s central court building. The decision taken by the Labour and Social Welfare Department will put an end to a situation of new arrivals having to sleep in the public prosecutor’s office until lodging can be found for them. The situation has been going on for months due to the increase of undocumented youths arriving in the city.