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SOCIETY

New rental bikes to be installed in Barcelona

Leaders of Barcelona City Council and Pedalem presented the new Bicing service yesterday. From January 8th, the replacement of the 424 stations will take three months, in which time the old and new systems...

SPAIN

Ex-Falangist prior denies access to exhume Franco

The prior of the monument where Francisco Franco’s remains are buried, La Valle de los Caídos, Santiago Cantera, has said he will not grant the government access to the site to undertake the exhumation...

Global warming in an unruly climate

Culture

Discovering the image at CaixaForum’s ’Una certa foscor’

society

Traffic accidents cause two deaths in two days

Traffic accidents cause two deaths in two days in Catalonia. A 25-year-old motorcyclist died on Tuesday before nine at night. He fell from his motorcycle on the B-124 road between Sabadell and Castellar....

Denmark

Six dead and sixteen injured in train crash

Six passengers were killed and sixteen more were injured yesterday in a train crash that took place on Storebaelt bridge, one of the Great Belt bridges linking Denmark’s main islands, Denmark officials...

Brazil

Bolsonaro endangers nature reserves

Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in yesterday as President of Brazil. Hours after taking office the far-right politician signed a decree that gives the ministry of agriculture (which is controlled by agricultural...

culture

Dr. Calypso give goodbye concerts in Barcelona

Accident rates continue to rise