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The Spanish crew members of a tuna trawler who spent 47 days as hostages of Somali pirates before they were freed for a reported $3.3 million ransom returned home to emotional reunions at their home port Saturday.

Valencia/Madrid - For Patricio P, an unemployed Ecuadorian immigrant to Spain, a soft drink is an unaffordable luxury these days.

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No fangs, no shrieking boy-crazy teenagers, and not a drop of blood to spare. Opening day was overwhelmingly disappointing.

Western Sahara's most prominent human rights activist has gone on a hunger strike at an airport in the Canary Islands after being expelled from her home country by Moroccan authorities.

Vivendi CFO Philippe Capron speaks out amid speculation that Comcast-G.E. deal will be done by Nov.

RYANAIR has confirmed it has cut 17 routes from Shannon Airport from the end of March resulting in the loss of 150 jobs and a 75% cut in capacity.

Drinking a bottle of wine a day, or half a dozen beers, cuts the risk of heart disease by more than half in men, an extraordinary study reports.

Freedom of Speech , Diaspora , Governance , Human Rights , Law , Refugees , War & Conflict , International Relations Languages: Spanish , English Full Category List Excerpt Aminatou Haidar is a leading activist for independence of the Western Sahara .

EL PASO The world knew Jose Cisneros as a great painter. He was much more than that in El Paso, where his work turned heads and tore down barriers.

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The release of the Alakrana Basque tuna fishing boat and the 36 crew, 16 of them Spaniards, dominates all the front pages in Spain today.

The Foreign Minister will meet his Moroccan counterpart, Taib Fasi Fihri, in Rabat on Thursday to discuss the situation of the Western Sahara human rights activist, Aminatou Haidar, who has been on hunger strike at Lanzarote Airport since midnight on Sunday.

Cristiano Ronaldo remains on course to resume full training with his Real Madrid team-mates later this week after undergoing further tests on his troublesome ankle today.

Belgian insurance group Fortis has reported a profit for the third quarter of the year.

Dublin - Irish police say they have arrested a truck driver trying to smuggle 6 million cigarettes into Northern Ireland.

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu listen to a guide's explanation during a visit to the Cordoba Mosque and Cathedral in Cordoba, southern Spain, 15 September 2009.

Pirates freed 36 crew members from a Spanish trawler Tuesday after holding them for more than six weeks off the coast of Somalia, while a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom.

A German financial manager based in Miami was arrested on money-laundering charges Wednesday as part of a sweeping criminal investigation into an international hedge fund that has cost major banks about $400 million in losses, according to sources familiar with the probe.

Spain's Infanta Elena is to legally separate from her husband of 14 years, Jaime de Marichalar.