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Ceuta made its presence felt at Spain’s National Day parade without a single one of its soldiers setting foot on Madrid’s Paseo del Prado.

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Hundreds of schools in France remain closed amid planned demonstrations across the country

A 102-year-old woman died and 90 people had to be rescued on Friday in Madrigueras, in the province of Albacete, after flash flooding swamped the entire town.

Demonstrators are set to march in more than 50 Spanish cities on Saturday, a day after parliament voted down two government decrees meant to give tenants stronger protection.

On the streets of Barcelona, fiery red and gold Chinese dragons (presumably with very sweaty people inside the costumes) danced among delighted crowds, while Chinese acrobats elicited gasps of amazement as they rolled, tossed and threw spherical lanterns in the air, keeping – as if by magic – the candle inside them upright at all…

The Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez and French president Emmanuel Macron highlighted the close relationship between their two countries and urged greater European unity to confront key migratory, economic and geopolitical challenges.

A migrant in a wheelchair, with serious injuries to his ankles, arms and torso, says he was pushed by soldiers from a height of more than six metres. When Amnesty International spoke to him in Ceuta, he complained that he had not even been given an X-ray and had only received an emergency bandage.

Demonstrators camping in a central Madrid square vowed on Monday to keep up the pressure on Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez over Spain’s housing crisis, as the 87-year-old woman at the centre of the protest called on them to “hold on.”

Spain has today reached the symbolic milestone of 1,000 days without a new national budget, the main tool for steering the country’s economic policy and setting priorities for public spending.