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The five are prohibited from leaving Belgium without the consent of a judge and must also provide a real address and attend all court hearings in person, the prosecutor’s office said.
The five former Catalan leaders were taken into custody in Belgium of their own accord Sunday morning, days after Spain had issued European arrest warrants for them.
The judge had 24 hours from the time of the five ex-leaders being taken into custody to make a decision on how to proceed with executing Spain’s extradition request.
Puigdemont and his ministers absconded to Belgium last weekend, shortly before Spanish prosecutors leveled charges against all 14 members of his deposed government for insurrection against the state, rebellion and misappropriation of public funds.
A Spanish judge issued European arrest warrants on Friday night after Puigdemont and the four former ministers failed to testify Thursday in Madrid at a hearing for alleged crimes linked to their drive for independence in Catalonia.
The health crisis in Venezuela is approaching levels comparable to the poorest nations, with naked women forced to give birth in a waiting room, patients treated on hospital floors and forecasts that hundreds of thousands of children are at risk of dying from malnutrition.
The alarming scenario also includes a shortage of medicines for treating severe diseases like cancer, diabetes and high blood pressure, and for containing outbreaks of contagious diseases, such as malaria and diphtheria.
Services are very limited in both public hospitals and private clinics.
Shortages of supplies have reduced the number of beds available to little more than 25 percent of what the country needs, according to experts.
But finding a hospital bed is no guarantee that the patient will receive the required treatment because hospitals have less than 5 percent of the supplies and medicines needed to function normally, said Douglas Leon Natera, president of the Venezuelan Medical Federation.
“Any Venezuelan who gets sick here in the country today runs the risk of entering a clinic only to have the relatives leave crying” because “there’s nothing” in many hospitals, Leon Natera said.
Kabul, Afghanistan — Lawmakers from the northern province of Kunduz said they have received conflicting reports of civilian deaths during a weekend ground and aerial offensive by Afghan and U.S. forces against Taliban insurgents. The Afghan government and the U.S. military in Afghanistan on Sunday said they were assessing the reports.
Some unconfirmed reports put the toll of the attack, in the Char Dara district, at nearly 60.
The defense ministry’s chief spokesman, Dawlat Waziri, said in a press conference that the government has appointed “a team to probe reports of civilians’ deaths.”
In Logar province, south of Kabul, a U.S. service member died as a result of wounds he received during operations on Saturday afternoon, the U.S.-led coalition reported.
The province has seen a increase in attacks in recent weeks by Taliban insurgents and fighters affiliated with the Islamic State.
— Wire reports