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Wednesday Jan 20 | Associated Content

Miami's Best Seafood Restaurants: One Exotic, One Cuban and One Miami All the Way

Seafood Restaurants in Miami like these are sure to change anyone's views on seafood.

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Related Topix: Miami, FL, Life, Food, Seafood, Dining, World News, Coconut Grove, FL

Sun Jan 10, 2010

Daily Record

Family's grief as father killed in Spanish blaze

A DEVASTATED family were last night making arrangements to fly to Spain after their father was killed in a house fire.

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Related Topix: Fire, World News, Spain,

Fri Jan 08, 2010

The Independent

The complete guide to: Gibraltar

Still British after all these years? Gibraltar is as rock-solid as ever, and likely to remain a Crown Colony and strategic UK military base for the foreseeable future, although the Ministry of Defence has been scaling down its presence on the Rock since the 1980s.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Spain, Travel

Tue Dec 22, 2009

Typically Spanish

One dead, another missing, after drugs boat goes down off C diz coast

One man has been found dead and another is feared drowned after a small boat, believed to have been carrying drugs, went down off the coast of Chipiona on Monday night.

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Related Topix: Boat Disaster,

Sun Dec 20, 2009

The Independent

Gibraltar, Spain resume ferry link after 40 years

A ferry service between Spain and the disputed British colony of Gibraltar reopened Wednesday, 40 years after it was closed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

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Related Topix: World News, Spain, Travel

Wed Dec 16, 2009

AndhraNews

Latest International News

UK inquiry committee to hear Blair give Iraq War evidence, but in secret Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair may soon give evidence related to the 2003 Iraq War, but in secret, to the Lord Chilcot Inquiry Committee.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Asia, Prince William, Elizabeth Ii, Afghanistan

Mon Dec 14, 2009

Scotsman.com News

Take it as red, John Cooper knows his post boxes

FOR more than 50 years John Cooper has been making post boxes for the Royal Mail.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Central County, Scotland

Sat Dec 12, 2009

The Hindu

Jubilation in Gibraltar after Aldorino's victory

Johannesburg: Gibraltar's Kaiane Aldorino won the 2009 Miss World crown at a glittering ceremony here on Saturday, defeating 111 contestants from across the world.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Bollywood

Thu Dec 10, 2009

Financial Times

A dangerous game at the mouth of the Med

There are few easier ways to inflame Spanish nationalism than to talk about Gibraltar , the tiny British possession at the mouth of the Mediterranean, and that is exactly what the Spanish right has been doing with increasing intensity for the past few months.

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Tue Dec 08, 2009

Times Online

Four Spanish police officers arrested in Gibraltar as tensions rise

Four Spanish Civil Guard officers involved in a high-speed pursuit of alleged drug smugglers off the coast of Gibraltar were arrested when they strayed into British waters.

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Related Topix: World News

Sun Dec 06, 2009

Equality Rights GGR

GGR questions proposed new Govt law

Equality Rights Group GGR Chairman, Felix Alvarez, has today questioned the publication by the Gibraltar Government of a proposed Bill granting exclusive powers to the Chief Minister or his designate to refer issues of constitutional compatibility to the Courts.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News

Wed Dec 02, 2009

Readuponit

The Rock of Gibraltar: Beaches, Bunkers and Birding

Located at the southern extreme of the Iberian Peninsular, the Rock of Gibraltar, famed gatekeeper of the Mediterranean, is one of the legendary Pillars of Hercules which, in AD 711, was the stepping-stone for the Muslim invasion of Europe.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Gibraltar Travel, Travel, Spain, Spain Travel,

Tue Dec 01, 2009

Harry's Place

BNP Wants To Abandon Gibraltar

The news has emerged that Nick Griffin attended a fascist rally in Spain, and promised that in the hugely unlikely event that the BNP "took power", they would abandon Gibraltar .

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Related Topix: World News

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Mondaq.Com

Gibraltar: The Gibraltar Budget 2009 - Fiduciary Group

He was pleased to announce that whilst the global economy was in turmoil from the fallout of the credit crunch the Gibraltar economy although not immune from world events had held up remarkably well.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News

Sun Nov 22, 2009

St. Petersburg Times

Gibraltar a rock solid side trip for travelers in Spain

Gibraltar is home to the 1,400-foot-tall rock that many Americans recognize as the symbol of Prudential Insurance.

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Related Topix: World News, Gibraltar Travel, Travel, Spain,

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Daily Mail

British ambassador forced to apologise after Royal Navy ship 'used...

British ambassador forced to apologise after Royal Navy ship 'used buoy painted colours of Spanish flag for target practice' By Ian Drury Last updated at 5:26 PM on 20th November 2009 Britain was embroiled in a diplomatic row today after the Royal Navy was accused of using a Spanish flag as a machine-gun target.

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Fri Oct 16, 2009

Mondaq.Com

Gibraltar: Ship Finance And Gibraltar - Hassans

Introduction Gibraltar, a British overseas territory in the southernmost tip of Spain, situated between two continents at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, benefits from a constantly growing marine sector.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Elizabeth Ii

Wed Oct 07, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Georgia's Russian roulette

Saakashvili gave an illegal order to attack Russian troops and says he would do the same again given the chance a ' he must go Analogies between Georgia and the states of western Europe are difficult to maintain: it is precisely because the Euro-Atlantic community has reached a maturity in its mutual relationships that so many of us in Georgia want ...

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Georgia, Europe, Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Sun Oct 04, 2009

The Independent

Tarifa: The calm away from the storm

Simon Calder leaves the crowds in the costas behind and heads south to where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean Sipping a caf con leche outside the Caf Central in the town of Tarifa is one of those simple pleasures that seem so intense in Andalucia.

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Related Topix: Europe, Spain, World News, Travel, Spain Travel,

Sat Sep 19, 2009

Earth Times

At least five African migrants drown off Spanish coast

At least five Africans have have died in the latest tragedy at sea involving illegal immigrants bound for Spain, authorities said Saturday.

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Related Topix: US News, Illegal Immigration, Boat Disaster, World News, Spain,

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