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Article snippet: (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • Hundreds of thousands of people joined a rally in Barcelona on Sunday to express their opposition to Catalonia’s secession from Spain. Catalans remain deeply split over independence. Pro-independence farmers have turned their tractors into symbols for secession. Old wounds dating from the Spanish Civil War have reopened between the national and the regional police forces. Tourists responded to last week’s rallies with surprise and excitement. Carles Puigdemont, the regional president, is expected to address the Catalan Parliament on Tuesday, when separatists could declare independence. The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, said that he was “not ruling out anything” to maintain the country’s integrity. _____ • The U.S. and Turkey suspended non-immigrant visa services at their respective consulates days after the arrest of a consulate employee in Istanbul over alleged ties to Fethullah Gulen, the exiled Islamist cleric who Turkey says orchestrated a failed coup last year. The husband of Kubra Golge, above, is among the dozen Americans who have been jailed and face long prison sentences in Turkey over accusations that they played a part in that coup. But it has become clear that the detainees are bargaining chips in Turkey’s effort to force Mr. Gulen’s extradition from the U.S. Turkish prosecutors have also said they were seeking lengthy jail terms for severa... Link to the full article to read more