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/ 23 October 2003
A donors’ conference to help war-ravaged Iraq opened on Thursday in Madrid amid high hopes of important financial pledges, but United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan made clear that such contributions would not amount to a wholesale endorsement of United States policies in Iraq.
The Spanish Parliament on Wednesday unanimously adopted a law to protect women from domestic violence, following the deaths of more than 40 women in attacks by their partners so far this year.
An American and a Spanish runner were gored and at least four other people were hospitalised on Monday after the eighth and final running of the bulls at Pamplona’s San Fermin festival.
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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.
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/ 23 December 2002
The government of Spain’s top wine-making region has given 2 340 bottles of red wine to pilots, sailors and other people who will spend Christmas monitoring or cleaning up oil from a sunken tanker.
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/ 13 December 2002
As dawn broke over the Arabian sea off the Island of Socotra on Monday the Korean crew of the cargo ship So San awoke to find themselves staring down the barrels of guns lined up along the deck of the the Spanish frigate Navarra.
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/ 7 November 2002
General Francisco Franco’s Spanish dictatorship stole children from the families of his left-wing opponents and gave them to his supporters or sent them to be brought up in convents or monasteries, according to a book published this week.
Visitors to Madrid have much to marvel over: splendid architecture, sizzling nightlife, great food and people who scream at each other.
Spanish troops will leave a disputed islet off the Moroccan coast on the condition that Rabat promises to never again send its troops there.
The European Commission stepped closer to imposing -million a day fines on Microsoft on Monday when it gave the software group eight days to comply with sanctions imposed last year. Neelie Kroes, competition commissioner, said in Madrid: ”The deadline is the end of this month and if it’s not met then it’s the end of the game.”