Protesters in Barcelona urge Spain to take in more refugees
(The Guardian Spain)

Mayor tells residents to `fill the streets´ to challenge the government over `shameful´ failure to accept country´s quota of migrantsTens of thousands of people marched through Barcelona on Saturday urging the Spanish government to immediately meet its pledge to take in thousands of refugees.Ada Colau, the mayor of Spain´s second city, had called on Barcelona residents to `fill the streets` and march under the slogan volem acollir (`We want to welcome them` in Catalan). Local police said approximately 160,000 people had heeded her call. Continue reading...