Spain's Congress rejects government housing decrees amid eviction protests

Spain's Congress has rejected two government decree-laws aimed at tackling the housing crisis, a defeat for Pedro Sánchez after nationwide protests over an 87-year-old woman's eviction.

• Congress rejected the first decree by 178 votes to 172 and the second by 184 to 166 on Friday.
• Sánchez urged lawmakers to approve the measures, saying they were necessary to bring order to the housing market.
• Miriam Nogueras of Junts said the decrees would let speculators keep buying property and evicting people.
• Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Congress as lawmakers voted, chanting "your profits, our misery."