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MADRID: Right-wing protesters hit the streets of Madrid on Sunday to denounce controversial Spanish government plans to offer pardons to the jailed Catalan separatists behind the failed 2017 independence bid. Around 25,000 people, according to police estimates, gathered in Madrid’s Plaza de Colon at midday, with the leaders of the opposition Popular Party (PP) and the far-right Vox faction, Pablo …

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