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• Van Basten's 'Spanish' sorcerers give Spanish fans a dilemma

  - 2008-06-14

  PARIS AFP — Spanish fans, expecially those who follow Real Madrid, will rejoice that David Villa's last-gasp winner against Sweden will almost certainly put off, for the time being, their having to achieve what world champions Italy and runners-up France could not. Namely, avoid getting flattened by a Dutch...

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• Four countries unite to urge EU help for fishing industry

  - 2008-06-06

  MADRID AFP — Spain, France, Italy and Portugal Friday jointly called for urgent EU measures to tackle the fuel-price crisis in the fishing industry, the Spanish government said following a meeting in Madrid. The rapid rise in the price of oil has pushed up the cost of marine diesel...

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• Spanish truckers roll out national strike to protest fuel prices

  - 2008-06-06

  MADRID AFP — Spanish truck drivers on Friday joined fishermen in a national strike protesting fuel prices that has dogged the country for the past week, a road transport association said. The "indefinite strike" called for by the group calling itself "Platform for the Defence of the Transport Sector"...

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• Three explosions, two blamed on ETA, hit Spanish Basque country

  - 2008-04-30

  MADRID AFP — Three explosions, two blamed on ETA separatists, shook the Basque country in northern Spain early Thursday, damaging buildings but causing no casualties, the Basque autonomous police told AFP. The first "powerful" blast came around midnight (2200 GMT Wednesday) in the Vizcaya town of Arrigoriaga "in a...

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• Spain's Zapatero calls for cross-party anti-terrorist strategy

  - 2008-04-08

  MADRID AFP — Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, in his first speech to parliament since winning re-election, Tuesday called for a cross-party strategy to fight the armed Basque separatist group ETA. ETA is "weaker than ever" and "we are closer than ever to the end of ETA...

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• 'Tourism against poverty' spotlighted at Madrid trade fair

  - 2008-01-30

  MADRID AFP — Spain's King Juan Carlos Wednesday opened the FITUR tourist trade fair, one of the world's largest, with a plea to thousands of industry professionals to use tourism to help eradicate poverty. "Tourism is a driver of understanding between peoples. It is an effective instrument with which...

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• Argentinian poet Juan Gelman wins top Spanish literary prize

  - 2007-11-29

  MADRID AFP — Argentinian poet Juan Gelman was Thursday awarded the Cervantes literary prize, considered the equivalent of a Nobel in the Spanish-speaking world, Spain's Culture Minister Cesar Antonio Molina announced. Hailed as one of the greatest poets writing in Spanish, his works have been translated into 10 languages....

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• South Korea soaps winning global audiences, rival Latin America

  - 2007-10-06

  BARCELONA, Spain AFP — South Korean soap operas are winning global audiences and have become major rivals to Latin America's racier telenovelas, participants at an industry conference held in Spain said. Jordanian television distributor Media Marketing and Production started buying the rights to air South Korean serials in the...

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• Britain's Radford to make Spanish civil war comedy

  - 2007-09-29

  SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain AFP — British director Michael Radford said Saturday he will begin shooting "La Mula" or "The Mule," his first sally into Spanish-language filmmaking, in Spain in January. The comedy tells the tale of a soldier who finds a mule on the battlefield of the Spanish Civil...

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• Russian Menchov wins Tour of Spain 10th stage

  - 2007-09-10

  ORDINO-ARCALIS, Spain AFP — Russian Denis Menchov of the Rabobank team retained his overall lead in the Tour of Spain after winning the 214km 10th stage on Monday between Benasque and the ski station of Ordino-Arcalis. He won his first stage of the 2007 Vuelta on the summit finish...

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