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Tue, 16 March 13:35
MTV Networks International (MTVNI), a division of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), today announced that it will take this year's annual MTV EMAs to Madrid, Spain. Hailed as one of the most prestigious live music events in the world, the awards show will broadcast live from the Spanish capital. This is the second time in the Award's 17-year history that Spain has played host, the first being Barcelona in 2002. The 2010 Madrid EMAs will take place on Sunday, 7 November 2010.
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Tue, 16 March 12:29
Sixty nine people have been arrested in Europe during a joint police crackdown on the Georgian Mafia. In Spain alone, the operation dubbed ‘Java’ netted police 24 arrests in Barcelona, Gadalajara and Valencia. Several properties in these locations were raided as well as in Madrid and Alicante.
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Tue, 16 March 12:18
GIJON - WITNESSES looked on in horror as a female drug addict at a hostel for the homeless in Gijon (Asturias) picked up a kitchen knife and stabbed a nun preparing dinner for residents. The young woman was arrested and the nun, Sister Marcelina Muñiz, admitted with serious neck wounds to Oviedo hospital where her condition was soon stabilised.
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Tue, 16 March 10:58
One of the great names of Spanish literature, novelist Miguel Delibes, died at his home on Friday, March 12, aged 89. Delibes, born in northern Spanish city of Valladolid in 1920, sadly lost the battle with cancer, which he had been suffering for several years.
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Mon, 15 March 18:10
SPAIN - A BOLIVIAN woman who was sentenced to prison for killing her partner in Madrid in 2008, has been declared innocent. The man, also Bolivian, abused her, especially when he was drunk, and on one occasion, he was carrying a knife and during the fight, accidentally stabbed himself. The woman was arrested and sentenced by a people’s jury, and has spent one and a half years in prison.
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Mon, 15 March 10:46
“I’m tired but very happy to be back,” declared aid worker Alicia Gamez on March 10 on as she descended from the Spanish air force plane that had brought her from West Africa to Barcelona. She was returning home after being held for more than three months by Al Qaeda sympathisers, together with fellow volunteers Albert Vilalta and Roque Pascual. They were treated courteously and had been well cared-for, she said, “bearing in mind the hardships of the desert.”
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Fri, 12 March 16:31
A GANG of Bulgarian fraudsters based in Madrid have been arrested by National Police. They had copied more than 400 credit cards in Madrid and since 2008 are believed to have placed copying devices at cash points in Madrid, Bilbao, Palencia and Malaga, and had members in Milan and Nairobi. They were found to have 1,000 more fake cards and 20 devices and keyboards which the placed on cash points to copy the strip on the cards and obtain the pin numbers. They are believed to have stolen hundreds of thousands of euros.
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Thu, 11 March 12:10
POPE Benedict XVI will visit Spain this November, his second visit to the country since he became Pope. It has been confirmed that he will be in Santiago de Compostela on November 6 and in Barcelona on November 7. In Barcelona, he will consecrate the Sagrada Familia, where a mass will be held in the centre nave, according to the Archbishop of Barcelona, Lluis Martinez Sistach.
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Wed, 10 March 11:37
NATIONAL - NATIONAL POLICE and tax officers have seized 1,000 kilos of extremely pure cocaine which had been dissolved in 110 barrels of frozen fruit pulp. The operation, codenamed Canela, which began in 2008 and has resulted in the arrest of seven people, was carried out in the Basque Country, Malaga, Mijas and Alicante.
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Tue, 09 March 16:37
UPDATE: The little boy was found this afternoon in perfect health on a rural road in Lemoa. He had spent the night in a shepherds’ cabin.
NATIONAL - A 12-YEAR-OLD boy called Iker Etxebarria Espiña went missing on Monday night in Amorebieta, in the Basque Country. He was wearing a dark blue jacket with red stripes and dark blue corduroy trousers when he was last seen. He is 1.60m tall and weighs 50 kilos. He has a birthmark on his face.
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Tue, 09 March 11:16
NATIONAL - THE countdown to the rise of VAT has started. It is due for July and businesses are increasingly worried that this will force them to pay the tax, leading to less profit and loss of jobs, so that rising prices won’t scare customers away.
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Mon, 08 March 16:01
NATIONAL - ACCORDING to reports from the National Police, money forgery in Spain has increased and more people were arrested for this last year than ever before. The Banco de España Investigation Brigade, arrested 216 people in 27 operations, however, they do not believe that this is an effect of the economic crisis.
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Mon, 08 March 13:12
NATIONAL - MADRID Regional Government has begun to process a request to have bullfighting officially classified as a ‘Heritage of Cultural Interest’ (BIC). This was announced by the vice-president and Councillor for Culture for Madrid, Ignacio Gonzalez, while in Cataluña, a debate is going on to decide whether bullfighting should be banned completely, with the participation of bullfighters, philosophers, writers and scientists.
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Mon, 08 March 12:24
NATIONAL - EXPERTS predict that this Spring is going to be bad for people who are allergic to grass pollen, as the heavy rains that have fallen over the past months will lead to double the amount of pollen in the air compared to last year.
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Mon, 08 March 10:57
EXTRADITION is often a long drawn-out process but Northern Ireland and Spain have cooperated to procure Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos’s return by next summer. Still regarded as an Etarra in Spain, De Juana claims to have abandoned his violent past when, as an active member of the Basque separatist terror group ETA, he participated in 25 murders.
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Fri, 05 March 16:20
Video footage has been released of the moment of impact when an 8 metre high wave slammed into the luxury cruise liner Louis Majesty in the Mediterranean leaving 2 passengers dead.
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Wed, 03 March 09:59
SPAIN - ANTI Corruption Prosecutors are seeing their two and a half year case against alleged Russian mob kingpin Gennadios Vasilievich Petrov collapse. Petrov, was arrested at his 20m euro mansion in Calvia (Mallorca) in June 2008 in the police ‘Operacion Troika’ accused of involvement in extortion, murder, tax evasion illicit association, falsification of documents and drugs trafficking, and was allegedly the boss of the feared Russian Tambovskaya-Malyshevskaya organised crime gang.
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Tue, 02 March 14:10
NATIONAL - THE rumours that have been doing the rounds in the British press for some time have now made Spanish headlines, big time. National newspaper La Vanguardia, is amongst many publications which have reported recently on the fact that British ex-pats are heading home, citing that life on the Spanish costas is becoming more expensive.
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Mon, 01 March 11:06
“REMEMBER how powerful I am,” Vicente Sanz, the 64-year-old secretary general of Radiotelevision Valenciana (RTVV), allegedly told a reluctant Canal 9 employee he wanted to seduce. It was said the wind did not blow at the state-run television network without his permission but since three women made formal complaints of sexual harassment against Sanz, he is temporarily out of the picture.
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Sat, 27 February 00:00
SPAIN - A 27-YEAR-OLD priest
in Toledo has been dismissed by the church for spending 17,000 euros, allegedly
on erotic phone calls and porn sites on the internet. The money came from the
congregations and brotherhoods in the two towns where he ministered. The church
has apologized on his behalf and said that an investigation has been opened.
The archbishop has also said that the money will be repaid by the diocese.
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Thu, 25 February 00:00
 >/p>THE President of the
Partido Popular in Andalucia, Javier Arenas, accused Prime Minister Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero of not caring about Andalucia. He also criticized
Junta de Andalucia President Jose Antonio Griñan, for travelling in a private
jet when there are more than one million people without work in the region. He
also criticized the fact that Andalucia had no employment plan and said that
PSOE was only showing interest in the community now in hopes that it will win
them more votes.
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Wed, 24 February 14:21
AN elderly
woman from the Canary Islands has left an inheritance of nine million euros to
endangered species of Spain. Three
million euros are destined to the Iberian Lynx and the rest to three
different animal defence and protection bodies, with the other two parts going
to the national association Amigos de los Animales and the Association for the
Defence of the Borrico de Rute, in Cordoba,
which protects donkeys.
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Tue, 23 February 16:38
NATIONAL - THE Spanish Postal Service, Correos, has released two stamps to commemorate Spain’s current presidency of the EU. The stamps carry the logo which has been created for the occasion, which for the first time, is the same for the three countries which will hold the rotating presidency of the EU council until June 2011, Spain, Belgium and Hungary, which are known as the Trio of Presidencies.
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Tue, 23 February 15:41
ANDALUCIA - A BRITISH couple died in Rubite, Granada, when the ceiling of a house collapsed, burying them in rubble and wooden beams. The couple, in their sixties, were apparently on a sofa at a friend’s house watching TV, when suddenly, the ceiling of the dining room collapsed, killing them instantly.
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Mon, 22 February 19:12
SPAIN - As of February 1, 2010, the plan for direct purchase of vehicles, launched by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade Plan 2000E, recorded 268,793 sales since May 2009.
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