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Brussels, Mar 9 (EFE).- (Camera: Stephanie Lecocq)The European Parliament on Tuesday voted to remove parliamentary immunity from the former president of Spain’s Catalonia region Carles Puidgemont and two political allies, paving the way for the Spanish judiciary to re-issue arrest warrants for their role in an illegal independence referendum. FOOTAGE OF PUIGDEMONT PROTESTING THE MOVE.
Thousands of people, many carrying Catalan separatist flags, are demonstrating in Barcelona on Sunday after German police arrested Catalonia's former president Carles Puigdemont, according to an AFP reporter on the scene. IMAGES
Ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont vows to form a new government despite "threats" from the central government in Madrid, after a Spanish judge refused to re-issue a European warrant for his arrest. SOUNDBITE
Catalonia's parliament meets for the first time since it was dissolved following a failed bid to break from Spain in a session that will see separatists start the process to get sacked regional leader Carles Puigdemont back into power. IMAGES
Burkina Faso seeks the arrest of ousted leader Blaise Compaore in connection with the murder of a former president nearly 30 years ago. Paul Chapman reports.
Hundreds of people take part in a rally in Santa Cruz, Bolivia's economic capital, to demand the release of opposition leader and Santa Cruz governor Luis Fernando Camacho, on the first anniversary of his arrest on terrorism charges over the ousting of former President Evo Morales in 2019. IMAGES
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