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- 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
- 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
- Spain probes possible fourth human case of mad cow disease
- MADRID AFP — Spanish health authorities said Wednesday they were looking into the possibility that a woman who died last week at a hospital in Leon suffered from the human variant of mad cow disease. If laboratory tests confirm the 64-year-old had Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD, the human variant of...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- 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
- Mediterraneans abandoning region's healthy diet: FAO
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- 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
- Health Care Systems in Ten Developed Countries: The U.S. System Is Most Unpopular and Dutch System the Most Popular
- In all ten countries substantial, mostly overwhelming, majorities want fundamental reforms or more ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Several recent surveys by Harris Interactive([R]), including the latest Financial Times/Harris Poll, asked an identical question of cross-sections of adults in ten developed countries about their own health care systems. This research finds...
- 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
- Top-selling Spanish cookbook author Simone Ortega dead at 89
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-07-02
- Spain's avant-garde chef Ferran Adria hits back at critics
- MADRID AFP — Ferran Adria, the Michelin-starred guru of Spanish avant-garde cuisine, has hit back at critics who say his "molecular gastronomy" is unhealthy, in the latest salvo in a feud between Spain's top chefs. Adria told the newspaper El Mundo that the chemicals he uses have been part...
- Research articles 2008-06-16
- 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
- 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
- Spain cancels emergency scheme to bring water to Barcelona
- MADRID AFP — The Spanish government said Friday it has cancelled a 180-million-euro (280-million-dollar) scheme to channel water from the river Ebro to the Barcelona region, after heavy rains eased drought fears. Deputy premier Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said the government decided the scheme was "no longer...
- Research articles 2008-06-06
- European fishermen take protest to Brussels
- BRUSSELS AFP — Angry fishermen take their protest over soaring fuel costs to Brussels on Wednesday where several thousand are set to picket the European Parliament, fisheries representatives in four countries said. Several thousand fishermen from Portugal, Italy, Spain and France were on their way to the Belgian capital...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- Men with high voices barred from Spain's Civil Guard: report
- MADRID AFP — Medical experts are urging Spain's government to revise the list of reasons for exclusion from the Civil Guard police force, which for men include having a high-pitched voice or just one testicle, a newspaper said Tuesday. Candidates who suffer from psoriasis, stuttering, diabetes, migraine or sexually...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- Western European and U.S. Adults: Tear Down this Health Care System!
- 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 2008-06-02
- Riot police clear striking French fishermen
- PARIS AFP — French riot police cleared striking fishermen from several oil depots on Thursday as fleets in Italy, Spain and Portugal prepared to join Europe-wide protests over fuel prices. Groups of strikers were removed at dawn from the Mediterranean oil depots of Fos-sur-Mer and Lavera, as well as...
- Research articles 2008-05-29
- Fishing strikes set to spread across Europe
- PARIS AFP — Protests by fishing fleets against soaring fuel costs threatened to spread across Europe, as French fishermen voted Monday to extend their port blockade and Spanish fleets joined the stoppage with several other countries likely to follow. Italian and Greek fishermen may also join the strike later...
- Research articles 2008-05-26
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