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/ 10 September 2009
European champions Spain have boosted their status as one of the favourites for the 2010 World Cup by taking their qualifying group by storm.
Elite cycling outfit Astana of reigning Tour of Spain champion Alexandre Vinokourov were told on Monday they cannot compete in next month’s Vuelta because of recent doping scandals concerning the team. Vuelta organisers said in a statement that they were withdrawing the Swiss-based Kazakh team’s invitation for the September 1 to 23 race.
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/ 29 September 2005
Four people died and dozens were injured when hundreds of would-be immigrants tried to storm a border-crossing between Morocco and Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta early on Thursday, as the countries’ prime ministers held a summit on illegal immigration.
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/ 11 November 2003
These are perilous times for journalists working in Africa. ”Hardly a week goes by without a journalist being deported here … or threatened elsewhere,” said Herve Bourges, president of the International Union of the Francophone Press, in the Gabonese capital.