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• Spain probes possible fourth human case of mad cow disease

  - 2008-08-27

  MADRID AFP — Spanish health authorities said Wednesday they were looking into the possibility that a woman who died last week at a hospital in Leon suffered from the human variant of mad cow disease. If laboratory tests confirm the 64-year-old had Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD, the human variant of...

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• Mediterraneans abandoning region's healthy diet: FAO

  - 2008-07-29

  ROME AFP — People in Mediterranean countries are abandoning the region's widely praised healthy diet in favour of food that has too much fat, salt and sugar, the Food and Agricultural Organization warned Tuesday. "Hailed by experts as keeping people slim, healthy and long-living, the Mediterranean diet has followers...

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• Spanish socialists want abortion law relaxed

  - 2008-07-05

  MADRID AFP — Spain's governing socialists, meeting at a congress in Madrid, said Saturday they wanted the law on abortion to be relaxed in the predominantly Catholic country. Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said the socialists wanted to draw on the "most innovative European laws...

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• Spain's avant-garde chef Ferran Adria hits back at critics

  - 2008-06-16

  MADRID AFP — Ferran Adria, the Michelin-starred guru of Spanish avant-garde cuisine, has hit back at critics who say his "molecular gastronomy" is unhealthy, in the latest salvo in a feud between Spain's top chefs. Adria told the newspaper El Mundo that the chemicals he uses have been part...

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• Former French coach Jacquet hails Spanish

  - 2008-06-14

  CHEXBRES, Switzerland AFP — Former French coach Aime Jacquet, who led Les Bleus to the 1998 World Cup, told AFP on Saturday he made Spain his favourites for Euro 2008 as his countrymen in contrast labour to survive. "Spain are the most dangerous team," said Jacquet of the Spanish,...

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• Three explosions, two blamed on ETA, hit Spanish Basque country

  - 2008-04-30

  MADRID AFP — Three explosions, two blamed on ETA separatists, shook the Basque country in northern Spain early Thursday, damaging buildings but causing no casualties, the Basque autonomous police told AFP. The first "powerful" blast came around midnight (2200 GMT Wednesday) in the Vizcaya town of Arrigoriaga "in a...

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• Mystery leak leaves 55 sick in Spain: fire service

  - 2008-04-28

  BARCELONA, Spain AFP — Fifty-five people became sick Monday after inhaling an unidentified substance at an industrial park outside Barcelona, the fire service said. Most of those treated for vomiting and sore eyes worked at a factory producing DVDs and CDs, according to the interior ministry of the regional...

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• Released Cuban political prisoners arrive in Spain: dissident

  - 2008-02-17

  MADRID, Feb 17, 2008 AFP — Four Cuban political prisoners freed by Havana arrived in Spain on Sunday, a Spain-based Cuban dissident told AFP. They comprise trade unionist Pedro Pablo Alvarez Ramos, dissident Omar Pernet Hernandez and independent journalists Jose Gabriel Ramon Castillo and Alejandro Gonzalez Raga. They...

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• Gourmet Iberian ham to make US menus, but at a price

  - 2007-11-15

  MADRID AFP — Iberian ham, a staple of Spanish menus and Christmas feasts, is about to go on sale in the United States for the first time, at least for those who can afford it. A spokesman for Spanish producer Embutidos Fermin, Manuel Andres Tejedor, said the company is...

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• EastEnders star Mike Reid dies

  - 2007-07-30

  LONDON AFP — Former EastEnders star and stand-up comedian Mike Reid has died of a suspected heart attack at his home in Spain. The 67-year-old, best known for his role as Frank Butcher in EastEnders, was considered to be in good health and was in the middle of working...

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