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Monday, November 10, 2008

Prudence pays in Spain, Italy

World | By Sebastian Rotella | November 10, 2008
Months before the global financial meltdown this fall, the talk in the boisterous cafes of Rome and Madrid had turned from sports and politics to economic woes. Read more
 

Friday, September 19, 2008

McCain on Spain: It’s mainly tough to explain

National | September 19, 2008
Some Spaniards are wondering whether John McCain has turned cool toward their prime minister – or maybe can’t remember him – after confusing comments by the Republican presidential candidate. Read more
 

Sunday, August 17, 2008

U.S. basketball team appears trustworthy

Sports | August 17, 2008
Beijing Late in the third quarter of yet another romp for the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team, the crowd at the Wukesong Arena was treated to a rendition of “The Twist,” sung by someone who sounded a lot like Chubby Checker. Read more
 

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Kobe, Pau suit up differently for this one

Sports | By Mark Heisler | August 16, 2008
BEIJING – This is a long way to come for a Lakers intra-squad game. Read more
 

Monday, April 14, 2008

Spain’s cocaine problem

World | By Tracy Wilkinson | April 14, 2008
Around dawn on a Sunday, packs of young people are huddled at stoplights, or ambling down Paseo del Prado. Read more
 

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Pre-humans in Europe earlier

Science | By Thomas H. Maugh II | March 27, 2008
A fossil jawbone, rudimentary tools and animal skeletons from a cave in Spain extend the earliest occupation of Europe by human ancestors back to as much as 1.3 million years ago, half a million years earlier than previously believed, researchers reported Wednesday. Read more
 

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Weary of bickering, worried over economy, Spain to vote

World | March 8, 2008
When they voted in national elections four years ago, Spaniards were both traumatized and energized. Read more
 

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Catholic Church wades into political fray in Spain

World | March 5, 2008
Spain’s most prominent Roman Catholic priests have stepped into the center of a bare-knuckle election campaign here, igniting a firestorm by seeming to tell voters how to cast their ballots. Read more
 

Thursday, February 14, 2008

In Spain, a crackdown on Basque separatists

World | February 14, 2008
Amid a bitterly divisive campaign for next month’s national elections, the Spanish government is cracking down on Basque separatists and their potential ballot-box voice with a string of arrests and the banishing of political parties. Read more
 

Monday, February 11, 2008

Barcelona terrorism case highlights new challenge

World | February 11, 2008
The alert came from an informant who warned of impending suicide attacks on the Barcelona subway. Read more
 

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Spain indicts 40 Rwandan officers

World | February 7, 2008
A Spanish judge Wednesday indicted 40 Rwandan army officers on charges of mass murder and crimes against humanity in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, asserting a concept of justice championed by his nation known as “universal jurisdiction.” Read more
 

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Spanish judge’s wife is fired

World | January 17, 2008
A court employee married to the main judge in the Madrid bombings trial was fired Wednesday for writing a book that divulged confidential information about the case. Read more
 

Friday, January 11, 2008

Shipwreck finders must open records to Spain

National | January 11, 2008
The Spanish government will receive detailed information about a shipwreck site where a Florida company found $500 million worth of coins and artifacts last year, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Read more
 

Monday, December 24, 2007

From behind bars, waging a verbal jihad

World | By Sebastian Rotella | December 24, 2007
Staring at their accusers from a glass courtroom cell, the 30 defendants look more like thugs, laborers or fundamentalists than writers. Read more
 

Thursday, December 20, 2007

47 linked to ETA sentenced

World | December 20, 2007
Spain’s National Court convicted 47 people Wednesday of being linked to the armed Basque separatist group ETA via a network of ostensibly legitimate social and political organizations, and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from two to 24 years. Read more
 

Sunday, December 2, 2007

ETA blamed in attack on Spanish police in France

World | December 2, 2007
Suspected ETA gunmen shot and killed a Spanish policeman and seriously wounded another in France on Saturday, the first killing by the Basque separatist group in almost a year. Read more
 

Thursday, November 22, 2007

World in Brief / SPAIN - Woman slain after televised snub

World | November 22, 2007
A Spaniard who defied a restraining order and went on a television show to beg his estranged girlfriend to marry him was jailed on suspicion of stabbing her to death after she snubbed him, officials said. Read more
 

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Monarch’s words with Chavez start a battle royal

World | By Chris Kraul | November 17, 2007
Someone finally told Hugo Chavez to shut up, and the Spanish-speaking world can hardly stop talking about it. Read more
 

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

World in Brief / SPAIN - Guantanamo flights detailed

World | November 13, 2007
Nearly 50 flights to or from the U.S. military prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, passed through Spain’s air space or landed in the country from 2002 until as recently as February, a report said. Read more
 

Monday, November 12, 2007

Water management 2.0

Business | By Ciaran Giles | November 12, 2007
For decades, Alberto Martorell and his family have been irrigating their rolling groves of orange and persimmon trees in this sweltering corner of eastern Spain by the traditional method – swamping them under a flood of water from the local canal. Read more
 
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