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In Spain, Shepherds Try to Revive a Medieval Tradition (Time.com)

November 8th, 2010

Time.com - Spanish shepherds take a flock on a 750-mile trek in the hopes of reviving an ancient tradition that benefits the sheep and the environment and, they hope, preserves…

Spain arrests American al-Qaida suspect (AP)

September 29th, 2010

AP - Spanish police have arrested a U.S. citizen of Algerian origin who is suspected of financing al-Qaida’s North African affiliate, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.

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Spain asks SAfrica to extradite ex-Rwanda general (AP)

September 22nd, 2010

AP - Spain is seeking the extradition of a former Rwandan general for genocide who has been targeted in two assassination plots while in exile in South Africa, authorities said…

Spain not convinced new Basque truce is credible (AP)

September 6th, 2010

In this video grab provided by ETA to Gara.net, members of the Basque Separatist militant group ETA gesture as they make a statement. The Basque separatist militant group ETA has issued a video on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, declaring a cease fire. The video appeared on Basque newspaper Gara's website and was also made available to the British broadcaster BBC. It showed three masked militants making a statement in Basque, in usual ETA style. Gara accompanied the video with a transcription of the statement in Basque and Spanish. (AP Photo/Gara.net)AP - How many cease-fires can you announce and break before everyone stops paying attention?


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Freed al Qaeda hostages arrive back in Spain (Reuters)

August 24th, 2010

A general view shows the road between Nouahibou and Nouakchott, where three Spanish aid workers were abducted from, December 3, 2009. REUTERS/Rafael MarchanteReuters - Two Spanish aid workers held by al Qaeda’s North African wing returned to Barcelona after being freed on Monday, ending a kidnapping that lasted nearly nine months.


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Spanish hostages freed by al-Qaida arrive in Spain (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

Spanish aid worker, Roque Pascual , left, Spanish Secretary of State, Soraya Rodriguez, 2nd left, Albert Vilalta, 3rd left, and Spanish Ambassador, Cristina Diaz Fernandez-Gil , talk after leaving a helicopter in the grounds of the presidential palace in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso after their release Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. The two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate were freed Monday in Mali after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid — a sign of the terrorist group's growing sophistication in bankrolling operations through kidnappings, experts said Monday. Aid workers Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta were abducted last November when their convoy of 4-by-4s was attacked by gunmen on a stretch of road in Mauritania. They were whisked away to Mali, whose northern half is now one of the many stretches of remote desert where al-Qaida of Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has stretched its tentacles. (AP Photo/Brahima Ouedraogo)AP - Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate arrived Tuesday in Barcelona after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid for their freedom —…

Bull leaps into bullring stands in Spain, 40 hurt (AP)

August 19th, 2010

In this TV image provided by ETB via APTN a holds the bull by the tail after it jumped 10 meters (yards) from the ring into the stands at the Tafalla bullring in Spain Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 causing panic as it lurched through the screaming crowd, charging and tossing everything he could. Regional officials say 40 people were injured when the bull leapt into the packed grandstands. (AP Photo/ETB via APTN)AP - A bull leapt into the packed grandstands of a Spanish bullring and ran amok, charging and trampling spectators and leaving 40 people injured, regional officials said Thursday.


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Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha arrive in Spain (AP)

August 4th, 2010

A car believes to be carrying U.S First Lady Michelle Obama drives past Spanish police on arrival at the Villa Padierna Hotel in Marbella, southern Spain. Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. The White House says First Lady Michelle Obama is in Spain for a private trip with longtime family friends. (AP Photo/Sergio Torres)AP - Security was tight at the posh Hotel Villa Padierna in southern Spain as Michelle Obama and her 9-year-old daughter Sasha arrived for a summer vacation in a motorcade.


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A farewell to bullfights in northeastern Spain (AP)

July 28th, 2010

Pro-bullfighting supporters shout at anti-bullfighting supporters in front of the Catalan Parliament in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The parliament voted to outlaw bullfighting, making Catalonia Spain's first major region to do so after an impassioned debate that pitted the rights of animals against preserving a pillar of traditional culture. Cheers broke out in the local 135-seat legislature after the speaker announced the ban had passed 68-to-55 with nine abstentions. The ban in the northeastern coastal region whose capital is Barcelona will take effect in 2012.(AP Photo/David Ramos)AP - Lawmakers in the region of Catalonia thrust a sword deep into Spain’s centuries-old tradition of bullfighting, banning the blood-soaked pageant that has fascinated artists and writers from Goya…

Cuba dissidents told Spain exile muddles US asylum (AP)

July 20th, 2010

Cuban dissident Ricardo Gonzalez, centre speaks alongside Julio Cesar Galvez, left and Jose Luis Garcia who were released from jail in Cuba, at the news conference in Madrid Thursday July 14, 2010. Nine Cuban dissidents who flew into Spain face an uncertain future in a nation mired in Europe's debt crisis. (AP Photo/Paul White)AP - The United States appears to have modified a pledge to take in freed Cuban political prisoners, telling their relatives that it will be more difficult for them to…

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