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- Spanish region prepares pioneering euthanasia law
- 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,...
- Research articles 2008-09-03
- African migrants die on route to Spain's Canary Islands
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-09-03
- Spain's Colonial posts 2.38 billion euro loss
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Five Largest European Countries and USA Believe Their Governments Are To Blame for Bad Economic Times
- At Least Seven in Ten Adults Have Cut Back on Spending ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- According to a Financial Times/Harris Poll conducted online by Harris Interactive([R]), most people in France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States believe their economies are getting worse. Within the past year: ...
- Research articles 2008-08-29
- Spanish DNA bank to identify Franco victims
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-08-22
- Spain's economy 'worse' than predicted: minister
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-08-03
- ETA weakened but still active 40 years after first planned killing
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Cameroon's Meyong to Braga
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-07-31
- Spanish economic growth near zero percent in second quarter: central bank
- 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....
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- Spain to reduce speed limit to conserve fuel
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- Bomb explodes in Spain's Basque region: official
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- European and U.S. Adults Are Not Worried about Banking/Financial Systems Collapse
- ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A new Harris Interactive/France 24/International Herald Tribune survey conducted online by Harris Interactive([R]) among a total of 6,735 adults aged 16 to 64 within France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, the United States, and adults aged 18 to 64 in Italy, between April 30 and May 14, 2008...
- Research articles 2008-07-07
- Spanish socialists want abortion law relaxed
- MADRID AFP — Spain's governing socialists, meeting at a congress in Madrid, said Saturday they wanted the law on abortion to be relaxed in the predominantly Catholic country. Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said the socialists wanted to draw on the "most innovative European laws...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- German plants to run on idle for football final, automakers say
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-06-27
- Cinema history in The National Archives
- THE British government found itself paying attention to the cinema industry from an early stage. Answering a Parliamentary Question on juvenile crime the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, told the House of Commons in May 1916, 'it is generally believed that one of the causes is to be found in...
- Research articles 2008-06-22
- Spanish truckers group calls for lorries to converge on Madrid
- MADRID AFP — A Spanish truck drivers' association on Sunday called for its members to converge on Madrid overnight in protest at the government's apparent lack of action over high fuel prices. The "Platform for the Defence of the Transport Sector", which says it represents 40,000 to 50,000 truckers...
- Research articles 2008-06-15
- Two truck drivers die as fuel protests spread across Europe
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-06-10
- Spain and Saudi Arabia sign military cooperation deal
- MADRID AFP — Spain and Saudi Arabia have signed a military cooperation agreement during a visit by Saudi Defence Minister Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the government said Friday. The agreement is aimed at "developing and strengthening military cooperation" between the two countries, in particular in the fields of...
- Research articles 2008-06-06
- Four countries unite to urge EU help for fishing industry
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-06-06
- Spanish truckers roll out national strike to protest fuel prices
- 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"...
- Research articles 2008-06-06
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