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Should the Spanish Government Close Franco’s Tomb? (Time.com)

November 20th, 2010

Time.com - This weekend, Francisco Franco devotees who make the annual trip to his tomb in the Valley of the Fallen will find the basilica closed. The government says it’s…

Spanish economy stalls in third quarter (AFP)

November 17th, 2010

A sign reading in Spanish AFP - Spain’s timid economic recovery stalled in the third quarter amid tough austerity measures, official data showed on Wednesday.


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Moody’s downgrades Spanish gov’t debt (AP)

September 30th, 2010

AP - Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Spanish government debt Thursday, joining two other major credit rating agencies who have taken similar steps out of concern over the country’s public finances.

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Spanish area OKs flaming bull festivals (AP)

September 22nd, 2010

AP - Lawmakers who banned bullfighting in Spain’s Catalonia region this summer voted Wednesday to endorse other traditions that have been criticized as cruel to bulls, such as attaching burning…

Spanish miners in Day 9 of underground protest (AP)

September 10th, 2010

Miners read newspapers and magazines inside Las Cuevas mine near the town of Velilla del Rio Carrion, northern Spain, on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. Fifty Spanish coal miners 1,640 feet (500 meters) underground are staging the ninth day of a strike over unpaid wages and government aid to the coal industry. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)AP - Far, far away from a Chilean mine where 33 trapped men struggle to cope as they await rescue, 50 Spanish miners are also deep in the earth’s bowels…

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 —…

Spanish hostages freed by al-Qaida-linked group (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 were freed Monday in Mali after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid — a sign…

Al-Qaida group frees 2 Spanish in Mali (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

AP - Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate have been set free, Spain’s prime minister said Monday, ending a hostage drama that involved…

The Match-Fixing Allegation Tainting Spanish Soccer (Time.com)

August 11th, 2010

Time.com - Coming hot on the heels of the nation lifting the World Cup, a Spanish soccer scandal threatens to overshadow the new domestic season

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Spanish Court Seeks Arrest of U.S. Soldiers in Hotel Attack (Time.com)

July 29th, 2010

Time.com - Spain’s National Court has re-opened its case against three U.S. troops implicated in a 2003 attack on Baghdad’s Hotel Palestine that killed two journalists

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