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Five jailed Catalan separatist leaders elected to the Spanish parliament last month are sworn in as lawmakers. The five men were temporarily released from prison and were escorted by police to the assembly for the ceremony. IMAGES
One new cream liquor from Spain has shot up in popularity thanks to an energetic political movement and clever name. Asturian entrepreneur Ruben Lavandera Moris recently launched a Catalan cream flavoured liquor named Article 155 in reference to events surrounding the recent Catalan independence referendum and bottles have flying off the shelves. So many orders have been placed online that his website collapsed.
“We have won the right to an independent state, built as a republic,’ Catalan President Carles Puigdemont said in a statement in Barcelona on Sunday, following a disputed referendum on independence from Spain plagued by violence and protests. According to Catalan officials, 90% of voters backed independence from Spain. The Spanish government deemed the ballot illegal and Spanish police officers used force in an attempt to stop the vote.
"Today there was no referendum on self-determination in Catalonia," Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in a speech just a matter of minutes after the polls closed on a Catalan referedum for independence from Spain. Rajoy was resolute in his stance that Spain is indivisible and that the referendum would not be recognised.
Police set up a cordon around the Iranian consulate in Paris, where they are carrying out an operation after reports of a person entering the building with an explosive device. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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