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Catalonia to split from Spain?

October 9, 2017

Catalonia's regional government is expected to declare independence from Spain within the next 24 hours. It says 90 percent of Catalan voters chose this in a referendum held eight days ago. But Madrid says the referendum was illegal and has threatened to suspend Catalonia's autonomy.

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