News: Spain

We have started to collect the most important news related to Spain in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Spain: news

'Eta attack' kills second officer

Wednesday, December 5th 2007, 14:21
related countries: France

A second Spanish policeman has died after being shot in France by suspected Basque separatist militants.
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Spain and Italy discuss migration

Wednesday, December 5th 2007, 12:24
related countries: Italy

The PMs of Spain and Italy discuss migration, as the number of deaths in sea crossings from Africa rises.
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Spanish rally for shot policeman

Tuesday, December 4th 2007, 23:15
related countries: France
related places: Madrid

The shooting in France of a Spanish policeman by suspected Eta militants prompts protests in Madrid.
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Spain buries 'Eta victim'

Sunday, December 2nd 2007, 14:47
related countries: France

PM Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero attends the funeral of a Spanish civil guard killed by Eta suspects in France.
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Eta blamed for killing in France

Saturday, December 1st 2007, 22:00
related countries: France

A Spanish civil guard is killed and another badly wounded after a suspected Eta attack in southern France.
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Barcelona abortion clinic arrests

Monday, November 26th 2007, 17:22
related places: Barcelona

Police in Spain arrest four people suspected of carrying out illegal abortions in Barcelona.
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New drugs approach to come

Wednesday, November 14th 2007, 18:07
related places: Madrid

The World Anti-Doping Agency will tell a Madrid summit that the fight against drugs cheats must now be waged by police forces as much as scientists.
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Spain king 'arrogant' - Chavez

Wednesday, November 14th 2007, 17:41
related countries: Chile, Venezuela
related places: Chavez

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accuses Spain's king of "arrogance" for telling him to shut up at a summit.
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Spain royal sex cartoonists fined

Tuesday, November 13th 2007, 16:16

Two Spanish cartoonists are fined for offending the royal family by depicting Prince Felipe and his wife having sex.
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Spain seeks to defuse Chavez row

Tuesday, November 13th 2007, 1:45
related countries: Venezuela
related places: Chavez

Spain's foreign minister tries to play down a spat between the king and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.
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Chavez in Spanish king coup jibe

Sunday, November 11th 2007, 22:29
related countries: Venezuela

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez steps up his row with Spain's king by asking how much he knew of a 2002 coup.
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Shut up, Spain's king tells Chavez

Saturday, November 10th 2007, 21:00
related countries: Chile, Venezuela
related places: Chavez

Spain's King Juan Carlos tells Venezuela leader Hugo Chavez to "shut up" in a heated end to a summit in Chile.
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Chad frees 'kidnap' flight crew

Friday, November 9th 2007, 18:32
related countries: Chad

Three Spanish aircrew detained in Chad over an alleged plot to abduct African children are released from jail.
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Morocco condemns royal visit

Wednesday, November 7th 2007, 11:57
related countries: Morocco

Morocco's king strongly condemns the visit by Spain's monarch to the disputed Spanish enclaves.
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Arrest over Spanish king's visit

Tuesday, November 6th 2007, 13:48
related countries: Morocco
related places: Melilla

A Moroccan senator protesting about the Spanish king's visit to the enclave of Melilla is briefly held by police.
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Tensions over Spanish king's trip

Monday, November 5th 2007, 13:54

King Juan Carlos pays a controversial visit to two Spanish-held enclaves in North Africa.
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Madrid victims attack 'leniency'

Thursday, November 1st 2007, 5:27
related places: Madrid

Victims of the Madrid train bombs are angry at what they see as the court's lenient treatment of some accused.
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Madrid bombers get long sentences

Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 16:57
related places: Madrid

A Spanish court sentences 21 men to jail, some for thousands of years, over the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
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Madrid train bombs verdict begins

Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 11:37
related places: Madrid

Security forces are on alert in Spain as a court delivers its verdict on the March 2004 Madrid train blasts.
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Vatican hails Spanish war dead

Sunday, October 28th 2007, 21:55

Some 498 Catholics executed in the Spanish Civil War are honoured in the Vatican's largest-ever beatification.
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Spanish plane crew held in Chad

Saturday, October 27th 2007, 16:45
related countries: Chad, France

Chad authorities detain seven Spanish crew members of a plane chartered to fly more than 100 children to France.
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Tennis: Nalbandian beats Federer

Sunday, October 21st 2007, 15:46
related places: Madrid

Argentina's David Nalbandian wins his first Masters Series title after beating Roger Federer 1-6 6-3 6-3 in Madrid.
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Treasure ship leaves Spanish port

Saturday, October 20th 2007, 22:17
related countries: United States
related places: Algeciras

A US treasure-hunting boat is allowed to leave Algeciras port in Spain following a dispute with authorities.
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Tennis: Nadal crashes to defeat

Friday, October 19th 2007, 16:15

Spanish favourite Rafael Nadal falls to a 6-1 6-2 defeat to David Nalbandian in the Madrid Masters quarter-finals.
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US treasure ship captain is freed

Wednesday, October 17th 2007, 15:39
related countries: United States

The US captain of a boat seized by a Spanish warship in a row over shipwreck treasure is released.
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Madrid 'bomb plot' trial starts

Monday, October 15th 2007, 14:37
related places: Madrid

The trial of 30 suspected Islamic militants accused of planning to bomb Madrid opens in the Spanish capital.
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Concert ban for 'Chavez critic'

Friday, October 12th 2007, 3:39
related countries: Venezuela
related places: Caracas, Chavez

Venezuela bans a Spanish singer's concert at a Caracas stadium over remarks about President Hugo Chavez.
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Basque city car bomb injures man

Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 16:25

A car bomb injures a man in the Spanish Basque city of Bilbao days after police arrest separatist suspects.
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