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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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• Spanish drought sees land-fire damage soar: ministry

  - 2008-04-08

  MADRID AFP — Fires destroyed more than twice as much land in drought-hit Spain during the first three months of 2008 as over the corresponding period last year, the government said Tuesday. 17,364 acres (6,945 hectares) of land were lost between January and March as Spain endured its worst...

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• ETA blast raises election tensions in Basque Country

  - 2008-02-23

  MADRID AFP — ETA exploded a small bomb Saturday in the Basque Country, prompting the Spanish government to warn of possible deadly attacks by the armed separatist group in the run-up to general elections. "We believe that ETA is going to try to kill before the elections," said Interior...

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• Italy sees cut in Eurofighter order

  - 2007-08-13

  MILAN AFP — Italy will "probably" cut its order of 121 Eurofighter jets because the planes have become more expensive, the defence ministry said Monday. Rome has already bought 75 Eurofighters in two rounds of purchases. It was expected to take delivery of another 46 after 2012 in a...

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• Spain remands one Syrian, frees another in terror probe

  - 2007-07-26

  MADRID AFP — Spanish authorities Thursday remanded one Syrian suspected of fundraising for an Islamist terrorist group while freeing a compatriot arrested with him two days earlier, a high court ruling said. Bassan Dalati Satut, 48, was held for further questioning while 30-year-old Samer Dabbas was freed. Both are...

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• Half of Spaniards overweight: ministerial study

  - 2007-04-30

  MADRID AFP — More than half of the adult population of Spain and one in four youngsters are overweight or obese, according to a ministry of health study released Monday. "Fifty two percent of the adult population and 27.6 percent of children are either overweight or obese," the ministry...

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• Spain softens conditions for Endesa sale

  - 2006-11-04

  MADRID AFP — Spain has said that it was easing the conditions it had attached to the sale of the power company Endesa to the German energy giant E.ON. "E.ON is not obliged to sell the production shares of the company", Spain's biggest electricity firm, the industry ministry said in...

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• Spain finds first case of deadly bird flu virus

  - 2006-07-07

  MADRID AFP — The first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus recorded in Spain has been found in a wild bird in the northern Basque country, the agriculture ministry has said. "The reference laboratory confirms the appearance of a case of avian flu of the highly pathogenic...

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• 'Missing' African opposition leader resurfaces in Croatia

  - 2005-04-27

  ZAGREB AFP — Equatorial Guinea's exiled opposition leader Severo Moto said he was hiding in Croatia from Spain's secret service, which he said wanted to kill him. Moto was quoted Wednesday in the Globus weekly as saying Spanish authorities had indirectly asked him to leave Spain for the sake...

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• "Missing" African opposition leader resurfaces in Croatia

  - 2005-04-27

  ZAGREB AFP — Equatorial Guinea's exiled opposition leader Severo Moto said in an interview that he was hiding in Croatia from Spain's secret service, which wanted to kill him. Moto was quoted in the Globus weekly as saying Spanish authorities had indirectly asked him to leave Spain for the...

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