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• GM to cut 5,900 jobs in Europe: report

  - 2008-03-10

  FRANKFURT AFP — US carmaker General Motors is to cut up to 5,900 jobs at its Opel and Saab units in Europe this year through outsourcing or voluntary redundancies, German magazine Auto Motor und Sport said Monday. Some of the cuts were already announced last year, including 1,300 posts...

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• EU clinches unanimous Galileo deal

  - 2007-11-30

  BRUSSELS AFP — European Union nations reached unanimous agreement Friday to go ahead with the Galileo satellite navigation project, after allaying concerns from Spain. "The presidency announces that it was possible to have the agreement of all the delegations, without exception, on Galileo," said Portuguese Transport Minister Mario Lino,...

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• US to help Spain stage European solar home building contest

  - 2007-10-18

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US government has agreed to help Spain organize a European version of a competition in which universities vie to build the best solar-powered homes, US and Spanish officials said on Thursday. "This event not only furthers the ties between the United States and Europe but...

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• Islamophobia began with end of Cold War, OSCE meeting hears

  - 2007-10-09

  CORDOBA, Spain AFP — Islamophobia gathered pace in the West with the end of the Cold War, long before the September 11, 2001 attacks against the US, participants at a two-day OSCE conference that began in Spain Tuesday said. "After the end of the Cold War, certain people took...

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• Hundreds of thousands attend Madrid Gay Pride parade

  - 2007-06-30

  MADRID AFP — Hundreds of thousands of gays, lesbians and their supporters from Europe marched in Madrid Saturday under sunny skies in a colourful parade, as London and Paris also held their annual marches against discrimination. Europride 2007 kicked off at 1600 GMT in the Spanish capital capping a...

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• Galicia engulfed by wave of "liberated" minks

  - 2006-10-16

  MADRID AFP — Regional authorities scoured Spain's rugged northwestern Galicia region for more than a thousand at-large minks, apparently freed by an environmental group in Europe's latest mink-liberation conundrum. A total of 6,500 minks were released Sunday from captivity, according to Galicia's government, but with many enjoying a short-lived freedom....

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• Pakistanis arrests in Senegal as Asians join migrant route to Spain

  - 2006-09-15

  DAKAR AFP — Senegal has arrested more than 100 Pakistanis trying to sail to the Spanish Canary Islands, the authorities said. They are the first non-Africans to be seized during Spain's struggle to cope with with a vast tide of clandestine migrants. Meanwhile in Spain, 200 other migrants from Asia,...

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• Europeans, Africans tackle clandestine immigration problem

  - 2006-07-09

  RABAT AFP — Ministers from 57 European and African countries gathered here for a major conference to seek ways to curb the growing problem of mass immigration to Europe, partly by improving conditions in their homeland. Foreign and interior ministers of 27 African and 30 European states hope both...

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• Morocco begins repatriation of desert immigrants

  - 2005-10-09

  BOUARFA, Morocco AFP — Morocco began the repatriation of hundreds of Senegalese and Malian would-be immigrants to Europe, allegedly abandoned in recent days in remote desert areas without food or water. Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi-Fihri said a meeting with diplomats from seven African countries had taken place on...

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• Portuguese fires, central European floods wreak havoc across continent

  - 2005-08-23

  VIENNA AFP — While parched Portugal and Spain battled dozens of wildfires, flood warnings were issued elsewhere in Europe, as heavy rains caused havoc in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany and Switzerland. Two people were killed and two others were missing after three days of heavy rain in central and eastern...

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