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Police stand guard in a Basque village MADRID (AFP) - The explosion of a booby-trapped van outside a civil guard barracks in Spain's restive Basque country on Wednesday killed a man and wounded four other people, police told AFP. Spanish media attributed the blast to the armed Basque separatist...
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s baby twins are set to visit Europe this summer with their proud parents. Anthony has revealed his newborn children Max and Emme will join him and his wife when he tours Spain in June. In a press conference with the Spanish media last week, the singer said that...
Protesters at the US embassy in Madrid in April 2004 on the anniversary of the death of Jose Couso [EPA] Spain's national court has dropped murder charges against three United States soldiers accused of killing a Spanish television cameraman during the shelling of a Baghdad hotel in 2003. A...
MOURA, Portugal, May 13 (IPS) - He is mayor of one of Portugal’s smallest and poorest municipalities. But his perseverance in using solar energy to drive development in his region has brought José Maria Prazeres Pós-de-Mina attention from the rest of the country and from other members of the...
Posted to the web 13 May 2008 Ben Sanga Maersk Line emerged winner of the Best Shipping Line (Asia-Europe) Award for the 21st consecutive year at the Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards (AFSCA). In his acknowledgment speech, Maersk Line Asia-Pacific chief executive, Jesper Praestensgaard, said...
By Rick Steves Tribune Media Services Salamanca's Plaza Mayor, Spain's grandest square, seems to celebrate life. Strolling across the square with Carlos, my guide, we passed a young man walking alone who suddenly burst into song. Northwest of Madrid (three hours by train), Salamanca is youthful...
plans onto ice until the situation improved. The complete market in Spain saw estate agents shutting through lack of sales and the crunch during 2007 was to get even worse. Unscrupulous agents were devising tactics to prise money out of clients through desperation to inject money back into their...
The Queens Opera will, once again, perform at the Manalapan Township Municipal Building, 120 Route 522, Manalapan, May 18 at 3 p.m. The show will feature sopranos Chrisina Rivera singing the songs of Spain and Danille Vita singing songs from theAmerican stage, including "West Side Story," "My...
Cannes - Following is the list of the 22 films in the competition for the Cannes film fest's top award, the Palme d'Or: 24 City, China, Jia Zhangke Adoration, Canada, Atom Egoyan Blindness, Brazil, Fernando Meirelles Changeling, US, Clint Eastwood Che (The Argentine, Guerrilla,) Spain, Steven...
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