HAROLD HECKLE

Associated Press Writer
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Leonard Cohen recovers from collapse

Leonard Cohen is recovering after collapsing onstage while on tour in eastern Spain, his music company said Saturday.

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Bolt says he can run faster in 100, 200 meters

Fresh from setting a pair of world records, Usain Bolt is ready to go faster.

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Temperature drop helps Spanish island battle fires

Lower temperatures on Monday helped firefighters battle two forest fires that have raged on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands for three days.

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Spain ready to boost Afghan troops

Spain is prepared to boost its long-term troop presence in Afghanistan if conditions there require it, a Spanish official said Thursday.

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Car bomb in Spain proves ETA's resilience

The Basque separatist group's No. 1 leader was nabbed in France as he slept late last year. His replacement lasted only a matter of weeks. Over the past couple of years, Spanish and French police have put most of ETA's leadership in jail, and with each arrest comes new claims the group has been decapitated.

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Spain on alert as fires hit south Europe

Spain was placed on maximum wildfire alert Friday as authorities elsewhere in the Mediterranean also battled blazes and braced for a weekend heat wave.

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Researchers: Capa Civil War photo likely staged

Robert Capa's photograph of a falling Spanish Civil War militiaman became one of the most famous and enduring images of conflict in the 20th century. Now, Spanish researchers who have studied events surrounding the picture believe it may have been staged.

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Spain: 3 arrested Basque suspects were armed

Three suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA who were captured in France were wanted for violent acts within Spain and had been on the run from police for months, the interior minister said Sunday.

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Baron Cohen appears as bull in Spain

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen's latest movie character, an Austrian fashionista called Bruno, drew gasps and some cheers as he appeared dressed as a bull in front of Spain's main bullring Thursday.

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Spain: Basque separatist leader arrested in France

French police arrested the suspected leader of Basque separatist group ETA as part of joint cross-border raids, Spain's Interior Ministry said Sunday. He was among nine alleged ETA members arrested in recent days.

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Spanish romance writer Corin Tellado has died

Corin Tellado, a well-known Spanish author of more than 4,000 romance novels, died Saturday while celebrating the Easter holidays with her family. She was 81.

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Spain's Prado names painter of Colossus

Spain's Prado Museum on Monday named the workshop assistant believed mostly likely to have painted "Colossus," a work that was once attributed to Francisco de Goya y Lucientes.

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Colombian drug baron shot dead in Madrid hospital

A convicted Colombian drug baron with links to two major smuggling cartels was shot dead in a Madrid hospital Thursday, officials said.

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Bombs hit train stations in Spain's Basque region

The Interior Ministry says two train stations in the northern Basque region were attacked with small explosive devices, causing some damage but no injuries.

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Basque regional president to face trial in Spain

The Basque regional government's president will be tried for meeting members of Batasuna, a party banned for its links to the armed separatist group ETA, a Spanish court said Monday.

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Car bomb explodes in Basque capital

The Interior Ministry says a car bomb has exploded on the outskirts of the Basque capital, causing considerable damage but no injuries.

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Spanish police arrest suspected drug trafficker

Spanish police have arrested a suspected Colombian drug trafficker listed among the most wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the police force said in a statement Friday.

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Spanish judge seeks information on Franco victims

A judge began gathering information Monday about people who disappeared during Spain's civil war and subsequent dictatorship, seeking to produce a reliable list of victims slain away from the battlefield during the vicious fight between left and right.

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Spanish couple misses doomed flight by minutes

A Spanish couple got to Madrid's airport three minutes late, but it kept them off a doomed flight.

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BA and Iberia in consolidation talks

British Airways PLC and Spain's Iberia SA said Tuesday they are in talks about combining, signaling a potential deal that could also form the basis of a three-way trans-Atlantic combination.

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Spanish FARC suspect released on bail

A Spanish woman suspected of being a liaison between the leadership of Colombia's FARC rebel group and its members based in Europe was freed on conditional bail Sunday, a court said.

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4 Africans die trying to reach Canary Islands

The bodies of four Africans have been found in a small boat packed with migrants trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands, officials said Friday — the third such tragedy in a week.

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Bomb targest Basque paper in Spain; no injuries

A bomb exploded in northern Spain early Sunday at printing facilities belonging to a Basque newspaper known for its hard-line stance against separatist violence, authorities said. No one was injured.

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Spaniard dies after attempt on Himalayan peak

A veteran Spanish mountaineer died during an attempt to climb the Himalayan peak of Annapurna, expedition organizers said Friday.

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Car bomb explodes in Spanish Basque area

Suspected members of a Basque separatist group allegedly exploded a car bomb in a northern Basque town Monday, causing considerable damage but no injuries, police said.

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