Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:40 AM EST
French police acting alongside Spanish counterparts have arrested three men at a railway station in France on suspicion of belonging to Basque separatist group ETA, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.
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Sat Oct 29, 2011 5:36 AM EDT
Spanish officials say a man went on a stabbing rampage at his apartment building, killing three people and seriously injuring at least two others.
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Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:41 AM EDT
Gunmen kidnapped three aid workers — two Spaniards and an Italian — from a refugee camp in Algeria, injuring one of the hostages and a local guard in the attack, officials said Sunday.
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Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:32 PM EDT
An elderly British couple drowned after being swept away by a flash flood that coursed through a street market in southeastern Spain, officials said Saturday.
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Sat Oct 8, 2011 9:29 AM EDT
A Spanish bullfighter is likely to suffer facial paralysis and lose the sight in one eye after a terrifying goring, the hospital treating him said Saturday.
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Sat Oct 8, 2011 5:39 AM EDT
Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla is recovering from a five-hour operation to repair his face after a terrifying goring in the northeastern city of Zaragoza, the hospital that treated him said Saturday.
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Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:46 PM EDT
A civic support organization for the Basque separatist group ETA has disbanded in Spain, a newspaper that acts as a mouthpiece for the separatists reported Saturday.
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Fri Sep 2, 2011 11:22 AM EDT
Spain's Royal Palace says King Juan Carlos has successfully undergone surgery to repair damage to the Achilles tendon of his left foot.
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Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:07 AM EDT
The Spanish soccer league locked out radio reporters from stadiums Sunday at the start of the new season after broadcasters declined to pay a new fee worth euro15 million ($21.6 million) to transmit matches live.
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Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:36 AM EDT
A killer bull has claimed another victim after fatally goring a 29-year-old man during festivities in Spain's eastern Valencia region, an official said Sunday.
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Sun Aug 14, 2011 6:23 AM EDT
An official says a 2-year-old girl has been rescued from a dumpster after her parents abandoned her.
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Sat Jul 2, 2011 1:08 PM EDT
An explosion at an arms factory in central Spain used mainly to dismantle cluster bombs killed one person Saturday and wounded four others, one of them seriously, an official said.
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Fri May 13, 2011 10:29 AM EDT
A British woman beheaded in a random attack at a supermarket on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands was identified Saturday as a grandmother of five.
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Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:30 AM EST
Spain approved a plan Friday to shore up the ailing savings banks that are at the heart of worries the country might need a bailout, but allowed them more time to boost capital buffers.
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Sat Jan 8, 2011 11:45 AM EST
Spain's leading broadcaster said Saturday it will no longer show the country's centuries-old tradition of bullfighting in order to protect children from viewing violence.
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Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:48 AM EST
The U.S. grew so concerned about the possibility of an Islamist terrorist attack in Spain in 2007 that it proposed setting up a counterterrorism center in the country's second-largest city, according to confidential cables.
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Sun Dec 5, 2010 8:31 AM EST
Spanish air traffic controllers whose wildcat strike paralyzed the country's air space and stranded more than 600,000 people last weekend refused on Thursday to be questioned by prosecutors investigating the case.
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Fri Dec 3, 2010 4:15 PM EST
Spain's civil aviation agency says all airports are functioning normally after a wildcat strike by air traffic controllers that the government quashed by using unprecedented emergency measures.
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Sun Sep 5, 2010 8:44 PM EDT
A passenger train crashed into a heavy-duty dump truck in southwestern Spain on Monday, killing two people and injuring eight others, a government official said.
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Sun Jul 18, 2010 7:21 AM EDT
Spain's Parliament on Tuesday rejected a proposal to ban women from wearing in public places Islamic veils that reveal only the eyes.
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Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:22 PM EDT
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica on Saturday pulled out of negotiations to acquire a euro7.15 billion ($9.3 billion) stake in Brazil's leading cell phone company Vivo.
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Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:30 AM EDT
Spain raised nearly euro3 billion ($3.85 billion) in 15-year bonds Thursday, easing market tension over its ability to find financing amid a heavy debt load and frail economy.
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Sat May 29, 2010 12:25 PM EDT
Spain's Socialist government is seeing its political power erode as it struggles to chart a path out of deep financial trouble, failing so far to satisfy conflicting demands to cut its budget and stimulate job creation.
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Fri May 21, 2010 1:12 PM EDT
A British woman was charged Friday with murdering her two children, aged 11 months and 5, by suffocating them with a plastic bag in a Spanish hotel room hours after her husband had been extradited to face child sex abuse charges in Britain.
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Fri May 7, 2010 6:14 AM EDT
Spain's economy took a tentative step out of recession by growing in the first three months of 2010 after six quarters of contraction, the Bank of Spain said Friday.
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