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• Revellers paint Spanish town red in annual tomato fight

  - 2008-08-27

  BUNOL, Spain AFP — Tens of thousands of people from around the world hurled tons of ripe tomatoes at each other Wednesday in an annual food fight that leaves the eastern Spanish town of Bunol covered in red juice. A rocket fired from the town hall was the cue...

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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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• German plants to run on idle for football final, automakers say

  - 2008-06-27

  BERLIN AFP — German automakers said Friday they would shut down production lines late Sunday so workers could follow the European football championship final between Germany and Spain. At Daimler, Volkswagen, Audi and Opel, night crews will start work after the final whistle, while day shifts will be allowed...

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• Two truck drivers die as fuel protests spread across Europe

  - 2008-06-10

  MADRID AFP — Two lorry drivers were killed on picket lines in Spain and Portugal on Tuesday as strikes by thousands of truckers over soaring fuel prices turned deadly. Spanish police escorted petrol supply tankers into Barcelona on the second day of the stoppage that has caused food and...

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• Spain set to work in bid to end recent hoodoo

  - 2008-06-06

  NEUSTIFT, Austria AFP — Spoain got down to business at their Austrian base on Friday determined to snap a recent poor streak which has brought premature heartbreak at major tournaments. Coach Luis Aragones put the squad through their paces in Neustift but had to rest injured strikers David Villa...

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• Spain labour to 1-0 Euro 2008 warm-up victory over USA

  - 2008-06-04

  SANTANDER, Spain AFP — Spain laboured to a 1-0 Euro 2008 warm-up victory over the USA here on Wednesday night, badly missing injured striker David Villa and midfielder Andres Iniesta. Xavi Hernandez scored the only goal of the game in the 78th minute for a side which lacked ideas,...

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• A life of luxury for Spain's sacred pigs: and then the chop

  - 2007-12-17

  LA ALBERCA, Spain AFP — India has its sacred cows, but in La Alberca, a Spanish village renowned for its juicy hams, an ancient Christian tradition has decreed that the chosen animal is a pig. "Hello pig," the villagers call as they walk by the chosen animal wandering freely...

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• Spain's 'golden geese' have French flapping

  - 2007-12-16

  FUENTE DE CANTOS, Spain AFP — Eduardo Sousa cannot cope with the worldwide demand this Christmas holiday season for his "ethical" foie gras, produced without force-feeding the geese -- a success he puts down to a French outcry over his methods. When he won an award at a Paris...

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• France's Thales sees merger with Safran as 'making sense'

  - 2007-10-22

  MADRID AFP — A tie-up between French defence electronics firm Thales and Sagem Defense Securite, the defense and security unit of France's Safran, "would make sense", Thales chairman Denis Ranque said Monday in Spain. "It would make sense, it is involved in the same sectors, but as far as...

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• Spain's fiercely loyal cider drinkers

  - 2007-10-02

  NAVA, Spain AFP — Waiters in Spain's northern region of Asturias appear a little clumsy, judging by the splattered floors in many establishments where clients are invariably offered cider instead of red or white wine. In this verdant region of forests and secluded beaches, locals are fiercely proud of...

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