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...But rappers, despite being the backbone of the streaming revolution, are losing out to boomer rock musicians, writes Anna Nicolaou....
...Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, is making preparations to tighten the screws on the Catalan leader, but wants more information first....
...Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, has given him until Monday to confirm if his declaration was a claim to independence....
...“Perhaps we have lost a chance,” Anna Gabriel, a deputy for the CUP group in the coalition, told the regional parliament. “The only way to negotiate with the Spanish state is as the Catalan Republic.”...
...For Anna Gabriel, the public face of the radical CUP, defeat is on the horizon: “Today was the time to solemnly proclaim the Catalan Republic. Maybe we’ve lost an occasion.”...
...Anna Gabriel lives in a flatshare in a modest building tucked away in the bohemian Barcelona neighbourhood of Grácia....
...Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, has convened an extraordinary meeting of his cabinet in Madrid on Wednesday at 9am to discuss his next move....
...Earlier this month death threats were levelled against Anna Gabriel, a member of the Catalan parliament from the anarchist pro-independence CUP party....
...Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, is weakened from a series of corruption scandals that have rocked his party....
...Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, told a party conference on Saturday that the Catalan vote “is not a referendum, it is not a consultation, or anything like that.”...
...The baritone Levi Hernandez excels as Anna’s distraught father Guglielmo. spoletousa.org...
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