
Fri Mar 5, 2010 11:44 AM EST
Three conservative regions of Spain defended bullfighting on Friday and pledged legislation to enshrine it as a pillar of their cultural heritage, as another area of the country considers banning the sport.
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- 2votes


Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:29 PM EST
Spain's National Court has halted a probe into alleged Chinese abuses in Tibet, the first case to be ditched under a new law curbing Madrid's jurisdiction over crimes committed abroad.
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- 0votes


Fri Feb 26, 2010 5:39 AM EST
Spanish telecoms company Telefonica SA said Friday its fourth quarter net profit rose 22 percent as an increase in customer numbers in Latin America helped boost revenue.
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- 0votes


Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:21 PM EST
Spain on Wednesday approved a sweeping new law that eases restrictions on abortion, declaring the practice a woman's right and doing away with the threat of imprisonment, in part of a drive toward liberal policies that has angered conservatives and the Catholic Church.
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- 0votes


Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:30 AM EST
Spain's Christmas lottery showered hundreds of thousand of euros (dollars) in prize money on the country's capital Tuesday.
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- 0votes


Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:11 AM EST
The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political conference say.
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- 0votes


Tue Nov 3, 2009 9:52 AM EST
Francisco Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, died Tuesday at age 103 after outliving the dictatorship that led him to flee into exile.
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- 0votes


Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:43 AM EDT
Relatives of men believed to have been executed and buried along with the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca said Thursday they are delighted that work has begun to exhume the civil-war era grave.
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- 1vote


Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:44 PM EDT
A plastic surgeon in Spain was convicted of negligence in the death of Nigeria's former first lady and was given a suspended sentence of a year in jail, a court said Tuesday.
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- 0votes


Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:59 AM EDT
Berlin, reunited as one city after decades of division during the Cold War, won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias prize on Thursday for its contribution to promoting peace and harmony.
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- 0votes


Thu Aug 6, 2009 9:23 AM EDT
A suspected member of the armed Basque group ETA was deported from Mexico on Thursday and arrested in Spain, where he is wanted for allegedly killing five Spanish police officers and a pregnant wife of one of the officers.
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- 0votes


Tue Aug 4, 2009 9:32 AM EDT
A forest fire on the Canary Island of La Palma was brought under control Tuesday and another that raged for two weeks in Spain's northern Catalonia region has been extinguished, an emergency official said.
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- 0votes


Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:21 PM EDT
Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica said Thursday its second quarter net profit fell 6 percent from a year earlier due to higher taxes and lower revenues in recession-stricken Spain and Europe, offsetting a strong performance from the company's Latin American division.
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- 0votes


Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:44 PM EDT
Spain's Santander, the euro zone's largest bank, said Wednesday that net profit fell 4 percent in the second quarter as an increase in revenues was wiped out by a surge in bad loans amid the economic crisis.
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- 0votes


Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:15 AM EDT
Spain's foreign minister made a historic border crossing to the disputed British colony of Gibraltar on Tuesday, the first by a Spanish Cabinet minister since the Rock was ceded almost 300 years ago.
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- 0votes


Wed Jul 1, 2009 9:26 AM EDT
It's no secret that overfishing has driven many tuna species including the iconic blue fin to the brink of extinction.
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- 0votes


Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:12 AM EDT
Two American engineers who were instrumental in developing e-mail and mobile phones on Wednesday won one of Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias awards for revolutionizing the way people communicate.
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- 0votes


Tue Jun 9, 2009 5:29 AM EDT
Pablo Soto's story may be every computer whiz kid's dream — or nightmare. After leaving school at 16 to support his family, he managed to eke out a living doing what he loves most: designing computer programs.
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- 2votes


Thu Jun 4, 2009 9:25 AM EDT
A nearly 100-year-old Mexican university was awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities on Wednesday in recognition of its role in providing Latin America with outstanding intellectuals and scientists.
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- 0votes


Wed May 27, 2009 8:05 PM EDT
Muslims still face substantial discrimination in Europe, especially at work, and many fail to report racist incidents because of a lack of trust in authorities, a European Union human rights agency said Thursday.
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- 0votes


Tue May 19, 2009 12:15 PM EDT
Recording companies went to court Tuesday claiming euro13 million ($17.5 million) from a Spaniard they accuse of profiting from computer programs he designed to allow free music downloads over the Internet.
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- 0votes


Thu May 14, 2009 7:58 AM EDT
Air pollution has long been a fact of life in Spanish cities, but scientists now say it is not just smog that chokes people as they walk to work or stroll through the park. A new study has found the air in Madrid and Barcelona is also laced with at least five drugs — most prominently cocaine.
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- 2votes


Tue May 12, 2009 11:19 AM EDT
A Spanish court convicted four men on Tuesday of terrorism offenses in connection with recruiting suicide attackers for Iraq, but acquitted 10 others for lack of evidence.
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- 2votes


Mon May 11, 2009 11:40 AM EDT
Spain said Monday it plans to make the contraceptive morning-after pill available over the counter in pharmacies without prescription within three months.
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- 1vote


Tue Apr 7, 2009 6:11 PM EDT
Spain's prime minister shook up his government Tuesday by appointing six new Cabinet ministers, including a new economy minister to deal with the country's worsening financial crisis.
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- 0votes


Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:38 PM EDT
Spain will withdraw its hundreds of troops from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Kosovo in the next few months, an official said Thursday.
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- 0votes


Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:31 PM EDT
Spanish government plans to ease restrictions on abortion have triggered a new dispute with the Roman Catholic Church, with the clergy launching a campaign suggesting animals are better protected than unborn babies.
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- 0votes


Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:41 AM EDT
Spain's north African enclave of Melilla will remove the country's last public statue of the late dictator Gen. Francisco Franco by the end of the month, an official said Monday.
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- 0votes


Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:53 PM EDT
The families of victims of the Madrid train bombings laid flowers Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of Europe's worst Islamic terror attack, which killed 191 people and injured 1,800.
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- 0votes


Wed Mar 4, 2009 11:04 AM EST
An Iranian woman living in Spain said Wednesday she welcomed a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-an-eye justice against a suitor who blinded her with acid.
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- 1vote


Sun Mar 1, 2009 7:40 PM EST
A Spanish official says 17 people were slightly injured when a cable of a ski chairlift snapped in the southern Sierra Nevada ski resort.
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- 0votes


Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:44 PM EST
Spain's National Court says prominent Judge Baltasar Garzon has been released from a Madrid city hospital where he was admitted following an anxiety attack.
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- 0votes


Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:28 AM EST
A rickety boat carrying illegal migrants from Morocco capsized in rough seas just off Spain's Canary Islands and 19 of them drowned, an official and witnesses said Monday. At least three were missing.
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- 0votes


Mon Feb 2, 2009 7:23 PM EST
Spanish police arrested 13 people Tuesday on suspicion of links to organized crime and terrorism groups.
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- 0votes


Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:42 PM EST
The armed Basque separatist group ETA claimed responsibility Wednesday for the recent slaying of a businessman and warned of attacks on the region's high-speed rail project.
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- 0votes


Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:31 PM EST
A chance discovery of a medieval clay oven has revealed that Moorish architects used powdered animal bones to protect the walls of fortresses close to the Alhambra Palace in southern Spain.
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- 1vote


Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:32 PM EST
Spain's anti-corruption prosecutor has opened a probe into the alleged investment fraud run by U.S. financier Bernard Madoff to determine if any persons or organizations in Spain were cooperating in the scheme, an official said Wednesday.
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- 0votes


Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:25 AM EST
Spain's Prado Museum has teamed up with Google Earth for a project that allows people to zoom in on the gallery's main works — even on details not immediately discernible to the human eye.
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- 2votes


Fri Jan 9, 2009 8:35 PM EST
An unusually heavy snowfall coated downtown Madrid in white on Friday, shutting down the city's airport but providing rare opportunities for snowball fights while intrepid golfers drove their balls into the storm.
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- 3votes


Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:20 AM EST
Economic woes eased for thousands in Spain on Monday as the Christmas lottery — billed among the world's richest — dished out some euro2.32 billion ($3.23 billion) in prizes.
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- 0votes


Thu Dec 4, 2008 1:12 PM EST
The future director of Madrid's Teatro Real said Thursday he would work to make it one of the world's great opera houses and win more people over to the art.
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- 0votes


Wed Dec 3, 2008 5:28 AM EST
A gas explosion ripped through an apartment building in northeastern Spain before dawn Wednesday, injuring at least 28 people, authorities said.
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- 0votes


Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:17 AM EDT
Spanish police on Thursday arrested 13 men accused of harboring Islamic extremists, including several suspects in the Madrid terror bombings of 2004, and helping them flee the country, the Interior Ministry said.
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- 0votes


Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:59 AM EDT
A powerful car bomb exploded Monday in northern Spain, killing an army officer and wounding six other people in the third attack in 24 hours by suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA.
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- 0votes


Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:52 PM EDT
Federico Garcia Lorca's family won't oppose a petition to open a mass grave where his body is believed to have been dumped after Franco supporters allegedly executed the poet and playwright at the outbreak of Spain's Civil War, a relative said Thursday.
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- 0votes
