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The Martinelli Linares brothers, sons of former Panamanian President Ricardo Marinelli, have paid $697,458 as part of the plea agreement reached with the New York Prosecutor’s Office last December, when they admitted to having laundered $28 million and made bribes in favor of of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

Luis Enrique and Ricardo Alberto, who are awaiting the reading of the sentence, scheduled for this spring, in a New York prison, will have to pay a fine of 19 million dollars and could spend up to a maximum of 20 years in prison.

One of the four immigrants of North African origin who has managed to jump the border fence between Spain and Morocco in Melilla has had to be rescued by the Fire Department and the Civil Guard after being trapped for hours in a drain pipe, when trying to flee from the agents.

Sources from the Government Delegation in Melilla have reported that, after the jump over the fence, which occurred around 9:15 a.m., the four North Africans who entered the city ran down the bed of the Arroyo Mezquita, in one of the whose drain pipes one of them was introduced.

A dozen city councils have decided to withdraw from marquees and advertising media the controversial campaign of the Catholic Association of Propagandists (ACdP) that encourages people to “pray” in front of abortion clinics, considering that it violates the rights of women, although others, such as Madrid and Córdoba, they are going to keep it.

The controversial posters, with the slogan “Praying in front of abortion clinics is great”, were placed in 250 stands in 33 cities, in response to the bill being processed in Congress to criminalize the harassment of women and workers of clinics that practice voluntary interruptions of pregnancy.

Salvamento Marítimo has intercepted a third boat with 52 people located southeast of Arrecife (Lanzarote), after helping two others in Canary waters in the last few hours.

This boat was sighted by a sailboat when it was sailing 25 miles from the capital of Lanzarote and 52 immigrants of sub-Saharan origin were traveling on it, including seven women and two minors.

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