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/ 6 November 2007
Thousands cheered to the boom of a 21-cannon salute welcoming Spain’s king and queen to the North African enclave of Melilla on Tuesday, the second day of a trip that has seriously irked Morocco. The two-day visit is King Juan Carlos’s first as head of state to Ceuta and Melilla, North African cities that are remnants of Spain’s colonial empire.
Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar joined tens of thousands of people in a march through the Spanish capital to protest against the continuing war in Iraq and to demand the closure of the United States prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Other rallies were held around Spain.