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The archives belonging to Luis Gómez Sanz, a lawyer born in 1913 in the western city of Salamanca, were discovered on July 20 by José María Uría Fernández with the socially progressive Anastasio de Gracia Foundation (Agfitel). “I was out walking when I came across a container filled with papers,” he says. “The caretaker of the building told me they were from an apartment that was being refurbished. There were other papers, but they had already been taken by junk men.” When Uría Fernández began to sift through the material, he could hardly believe his eyes. “There are around 20,000 documents and 74 books,” he says, adding that they are to be handed over to researchers. About 20,000 historic documents and 74 books were found in the trash Among the literature is a 1749 edition of Dialogues from Spanish humanist and philosopher Juan Luis Vives . Gómez Sanz was both a state attorney and prosecutor as well as secretary to the board of directors for Spain’s national heritage during the pri...

BARCELONA, Spain — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say on the...