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• Top-selling Spanish cookbook author Simone Ortega dead at 89

  - 2008-07-02

  MADRID AFP — Top-selling Spanish cookbook author and chef Simone Ortega, who won top culinary awards in both France and Spain, has died, her publisher said Wednesday. She was 89. Publishing company Alianza Editorial said Ortega died overnight at a nursing home in Madrid. It did not know the...

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• Adidas scores with both finalists at Euro championships

  - 2008-06-30

  FRANKFURT AFP — German sportswear giant Adidas did better than the national team at the Euro 2008 football championships, sponsoring both runner-up Germany and the new champion, Spain. "It was the dream final for Adidas," a spokeswoman told AFP after the group had already announced it expected sales of...

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• Separated twins in Spain find each 28 years later: lawyer

  - 2008-05-27

  MADRID AFP — Twin girls who were separated at birth due to a medical error met by chance 28 years later, and one of them is now suing the Spanish hospital involved, a lawyer said Tuesday. The two were born in a hospital in Gran Canaria, in Spain's Canary...

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• Spain's Gas Natural drops bid for Endesa

  - 2007-02-01

  MADRID AFP — Spanish energy group Gas Natural said it was dropping its bid to buy electricity company Endesa, leaving it to E.ON of Germany to buy it and create a new European energy champion. Directors at Gas Natural agreed unanimously to abandon their 17-month-old campaign to acquire Endesa,...

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• Spaniards knuckle under to new smoking curbs: poll

  - 2006-12-27

  MADRID AFP — Nearly 70 percent of Spaniards are satisfied with a law introduced last January curbing smoking in bars, restaurants and at the workplace, according to an opinion poll published. The percentage of smokers among the adult population had dropped marginally from 25.8 to 23.7, according to the poll...

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• Swiss cycling chief ready to halt disciplinary against Ullrich

  - 2006-12-21

  GENEVA AFP — Swiss cycling chief Lorenz Schlaefli has said that he was likely to halt anti-doping proceedings against former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich next month unless new evidence comes through. Schlaefli said he was not able to use existing evidence received from the legal probe into the...

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• Spanish group Acciona takes stake in Endesa to 24.9 percent

  - 2006-11-03

  MADRID AFP — Spain's national energy regulator CNE gave the green light to Spanish public works and services group Acciona to up its stake in electricity provider Endesa to 24.9 percent, Spanish media reported. Acciona's stake will lie just below the 25 percent at which it would be obliged to...

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• Paradorn joins Paris Masters' walking wounded

  - 2006-10-31

  PARIS AFP — Asian number one Paradorn Srichaphan and Spain's Nicolas Almagro have become the latest two players to hobble away from the injury-ravaged Paris Masters. Thai star Paradorn quit his first round match against Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela when he complained of dizziness after suffering a problem with his...

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• Spanish group Acciona buys 10 percent of Endesa

  - 2006-09-25

  MADRID AFP — Spanish public works and services group Acciona announced that it had bought 10 percent of Spain's largest electricity company, Endesa, for an estimated 3.38 billion euros (4.33 billion dollars). The announcement brings a new element into the battle for control of Endesa, which is subject to hostile...

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• As some Africans leave Canaries, first Asians arrive

  - 2006-09-15

  SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain AFP — No sooner had Spain repatriated a group of African immigrants than overwhelmed Canary Islanders had to deal with more illegal migrants in the shape of 200 Pakistanis and Sri Lankans -- the first to arrive from Asia. But barely had they arrived than...

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