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• Spanish region prepares pioneering euthanasia law

  - 2008-09-03

  MADRID AFP — The local government of Spain's southwestern region of Andalucia said Wednesday it was preparing a pioneering euthanasia law which would allow terminally ill patients to refuse medical treatment and make it illegal to keep someone alive by artificial means. Under the text of the draft law,...

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• African migrants die on route to Spain's Canary Islands

  - 2008-09-03

  MADRID AFP — Fourteen African migrants died, mostly of hypothermia, trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands by boat after they became lost at sea several times, local officials said Wednesday. The wooden fishing boat carrying 46 passengers and the bodies of 13 others was spotted by a police patrol...

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• Spain's Colonial posts 2.38 billion euro loss

  - 2008-09-01

  MADRID AFP — Spanish property group Colonial, struggling under huge debts, announced losses of 2.38 billion euros for the first half of 2008 which it blamed on asset depreciation. Colonial said in an announcement late Sunday that it had reached an agreement in principle to reschedule its debt of...

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• Spanish DNA bank to identify Franco victims

  - 2008-08-22

  MADRID AFP — Descendants of refugees who fled Spain during the 1936-39 civil war or the ensuing dictatorship are contributing to a DNA bank to help identify bodies in mass graves believed to be victims of General Franco's forces. Spaniards from France, Switzerland, Italy and Brazil, where many had...

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• Spain's economy 'worse' than predicted: minister

  - 2008-08-03

  MADRID AFP — Spain's economy is in a worse state than the government had predicted but is still unlikely to slip into a recession, Economy Minister Pedro Solbes said in an interview published Sunday. "For the past two months there have been radically different data, such as the rise...

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• ETA weakened but still active 40 years after first planned killing

  - 2008-08-01

  MADRID AFP — On August 2, 1968, ETA staged its first planned killing when it shot a police officer. Forty years, and more than 800 deaths, later the Basque separatist organisation appears weakened, but still remains dangerous. In that summer of 1968, three ETA members ambushed Meliton Manzanas outside...

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• Cameroon's Meyong to Braga

  - 2008-07-31

  LISBON AFP — Top flight Portuguese outfit Sporting Braga on Thursday said they had signed Cameroon international striker Albert Meyong Ze from Spain's Levante on a two-year contract. "Meyong has signed a contract to the end of the 2009/2010 season," Braga announced on their website. Meyong, 27, caused...

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• Spanish economic growth near zero percent in second quarter: central bank

  - 2008-07-30

  MADRID AFP — Spain's economy, the eurozone's fourth largest, expanded by just 0.1 percent in the second quarter from the previous three months, the Bank of Spain estimated Wednesday. The economy grew by 1.8 percent in the second quarter when compared to the same time last year, it added....

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• Spain to reduce speed limit to conserve fuel

  - 2008-07-29

  MADRID AFP — Spain will lower its speed limit outside major cities as part of a string of measures unveiled by the government Tuesday aimed at slashing its oil imports by 10 percent per year. "Every time we lift our feet off the accelerator, we are improving GDP and...

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• Bomb explodes in Spain's Basque region: official

  - 2008-07-28

  MADRID AFP — A small bomb placed by the separatist group ETA went off overnight at a highway building site in Spain's northern Basque region, a Basque interior ministry spokeswoman said Monday. The explosion on the A-8 highway near the town of Orio caused no injuries but damaged four...

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