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BARACK OBAMA’S re-election was welcomed by Spain’s Foreign minister, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo. “Our chap won,” he told Onda Cero radio last week, but stressed that Spain’s good relationship with the US would have remained the same with either candidate. “But my experience has been with Obama and especially the secretary…
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CONSTRUCTION has begun on the Mecca-Medina ‘Pilgrim Express’ a high speed rail link in Saudi Arabia. The line is expected to open by December 2016. Spain beat France to win the contract last year, making it the biggest overseas contract ever to be won by Spain.  It involves the combined efforts…
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AN Andalucian city is to be created in China. A team of architects from Andalucia, Baum and Sodimor, in collaboration with West Line from Giuyang won a competition to create a new city for 400,000 inhabitants in the Dushan municipality in the Guizhou region in the south western part of…
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THE environment is the least of European’s worries, with unemployment and the economic situation their biggest concerns. Only six per cent of 50,000 EU citizens from 170 regions across 27 members states considered the environment to be their primary concern. Sixty one per cent chose unemployment, followed by the economic situation…
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SEVEN Spaniards and four Norwegians were expelled by Moroccan Police from the Western Sahara. The plainclothes police reportedly took their passports and forced them into taxis to Agadir. The expulsed Norwegians have been named as Kristine Hallingstad, Pal Henriksen, Gunnar Kaus and Vegard Tjorhom, and they belong to the juvenile…
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A NEW €5 note is to be introduced in May 2013 with improved safety features. Other denominations will follow afterwards. Counterfeit banknotes are in circulation all over Europe and used not only by criminals but also by innocent citizens every day. The total value of counterfeit currency confiscated by police…
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THE Swedes have come top of a league table for the best non-native English speakers. Education First’s English Proficiency Index for 2012 also shows that the Spanish speak better English than either the French or the Italians. The proficiency of more than 1.5 million adults from 54 countries and five…
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BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA II is now the 44th President of the United States after winning the election for a second term. This came after a historically expensive race that was primarily fought in a handful of battleground states.Obama beat Mitt Romney after taking the lead almost every one of these…
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ONE MILLION POUNDS (€1.25m) has been allocated to improving Gibraltar’s tourism sites in this year’s budget. The scheme includes major improvements at Upper Rock nature reserve and other tourist sites. The works will see a great improvement in facilities for tourists and residents visiting the nature reserve, according to the…
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AFTER 11 years in Afghanistan, Spain is beginning a measured reduction of its 1,500 troops there. Members of parachute and air transport brigades finishing tours of duty this month will be replaced by 120 fewer men. The reduction is in line with the agreement reached between Defence minister Pedro Morenes…
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MYSTERY surrounds the whereabouts of a seven-year-old girl missing for three months.Giselle Candice Kelly Silva - known as Ellie - went missing while on a two-week holiday visit to her father, Filipe Silva, at his home in Vilamoura on the Portuguese Algarve in July.She nor her father have been seen…
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  The Bollywood producer Satish Reddy and producer Director Haroon Rashid had done world’s longest one shot film “One Shot Fear without Cut” which is 2 hours 20 minute long completely one take movie on a single camera. The movie has already got rave review in international film festivals like…
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Asus today unveiled the Padfone 2 at a press event in Milan. Asus Chairman Jonney Shih revealed a significant upgrade to its Padfone Android smartphone with tablet docking station. Though the phone has received a boost in screen size, it's thinner and lighter than its predecessor, and while a glance…
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While the overall lung cancer five-year survival rate in the U.S. is 15 percent, the odds of survival increase significantly with early detection. However, the expense or invasiveness of current screening methods and the lack of symptoms at early stages of the disease means most people aren’t diagnosed until the…
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After flying to an altitude of 39,045 meters (128,100 feet) in a helium-filled balloon, Felix Baumgartner completed a record breaking jump for the ages from the edge of space, exactly 65 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier flying in an experimental rocket-powered airplane. Felix reached a maximum…
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