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/ 6 February 2004
Spain’s bruising general election campaign took another bitter turn this week when the parties began rowing over the civil war. Right-wing Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar called on the Socialist Party leader, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, to order his campaign team to stop making references to the conflict that killed at least half a million people.
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/ 23 January 2004
Morocco has approved one of the most progressive laws on women’s and family rights in the Arab world, which will see polygamy almost completely eradicated from the north African country. Last-ditch attempts by Islamist deputies in the Rabat Parliament failed to derail a law that had the backing of King Mohammed VI.
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/ 1 December 2003
American soldiers killed 46 Iraqis and captured eight in three repelled ambushes on US convoys in the central Iraqi city of Samarra on Sunday. At least 18 attackers, five US soldiers and a civilian travelling with the troops were wounded in the deadliest gun battles since the end of the war.
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/ 5 November 2003
A potent brew of laundered money and northern Europeans seeking houses in the sun risks pushing Spain’s Costa del Sol, on its south eastern shores and which is in the throes of a construction boom, into the control of organised criminal gangs, a university report has warned.
While the Cuban revolution has achieved wonders such as high literacy and excellent health care, no one can be sure of its long-term survival after Castro goes.
The excavation of graves in Spain has reawakened hatred dating back more than 65 years. During and after the 1936 to 1939 civil war, tens of thousands of people were taken by rightwing gangs for night-time ”strolls”, or paseos, that ended with a bullet in the back of the head.
The Basque-language Egunkaria newspaper was recently closed down under anti-terrorism legislation. Former editor Peio Zubiria, current editor Martxelo Otamendi and eight other managers and journalists were detained
The leaders of Italy, Australia, Britain and Spain are all swimming against the tide of public opinion in their quest against Iraq. The Guardian examines four leaders who have found themselves at odds with the opinion polls, and how they have reacted to their position
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/ 27 January 2003
A Spanish art historian has uncovered what was alleged to be the first use of modern art as a deliberate form of torture, with the discovery that mind-bending prison cells were built by anarchist artists 65 years ago during the country’s bloody civil war.
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/ 21 January 2003
They have called it Excalibur, though it was plucked from a pit of bones rather than the stone of Arthurian legend. To the ordinary eye it is a hand-sized, triangular chunk of ochre and purple rock. But to palaeontologists it is proof of a defining moment in the history of the human mind.