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Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont set for Spain return after arrest warrant lifted
Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont set for Spain return after arrest warrant lifted
A Spanish judge on Tuesday lifted an arrest warrant for exiled former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, paving the way for his return to Spain ahead of a general election in November. Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena made the move after Spain’s Constitutional Court backed extending a 2024 amnesty law to include the crime of embezzlement. The law was aimed at easing tensions in the…