HAROLD HECKLE

Associated Press
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Spain: 3 ETA suspects arrested in France

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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Man in Spain kills 3 in stabbing rampage

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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3 aid workers kidnapped from camp in Algeria

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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British couple drowns in Spanish flash flood

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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Spain: bullfighter survives terrifying face goring

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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Spain: bullfighter survives terrifying face goring

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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Support organization for Basque group ETA disbands

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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Spain's king OK after Achilles tendon operation

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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Spanish soccer league locks out radio reporters

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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Killer bull in Spain fatally gores man

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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Abandoned toddler rescued from garbage in Spain

An official says a 2-year-old girl has been rescued from a dumpster after her parents abandoned her.

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1 dead, 4 injured in Spain arms factory explosion

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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Woman beheaded on Spanish resort island identified

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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Spain clears plan to shore up savings banks

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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Spain's national broadcaster bans bullfighting

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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WikiLeaks: US concern about terrorism in Spain

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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Spanish controllers refuse to testify about strike

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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Spain's airports recovering from controller strike

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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Train crashes into truck in Spain; 2 dead, 8 hurt

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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Spain parliament rejects burqa ban — for now

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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Telefonica deal to buy Brazil's Vivo falls apart

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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Spain raises $3.85B in bond auction

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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Analysis: Spain government is struggling in crisis

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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UK mother charged with murdering 2 kids in Spain

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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Spain hobbles out of recession

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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