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Qatar Tourism Authority is participating in the annual Global Meetings and Incentive Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain, which begins today and runs until Thursday.

El Mundo notes that three Spanish charity workers have been kidnapped in Mauritania.

Three Spanish aid workers who disappeared in Mauritania on Sunday appear to have been kidnapped by a group linked to al Qaeda, Spain's Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.

The Military Air Systems Business Unit of EADS Defence & Security in Spain recently signed a contract with the Spanish Air Force to provide the ON Aircraft Scheduled Inspections Industrial Service for the Eurofighter aircraft being operated at Moron Air Base near Seville.

Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 6:12 p.m. NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - Three Spanish aid workers were kidnapped by gunmen Sunday while delivering supplies to impoverished villages in the desert nation of Mauritania, a police official said.

Comment about "Spain to support Malta's bid to host European Asylum Support Office" Phone Name Comment 0 Thursday, 26th November 2009 - 09:55CET Spain to support Malta's bid to host European Asylum Support Office Spain is to support Malta's bid to host the European Asylum Support Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos said today.

A Spanish policeman was shot after surprising several people apparently planting a bomb outside a police barracks in the town of Leitza near the Basque Country before dawn on Sunday, state news agency EFE said.

Spain now has another Michelin three star restaurant. The Celler Restaurant in Can Roca is run by chef Joan Roca.

Comment about "Queen Sofia of Spain misses Malta visit" Phone Name Comment 0 Queen Sofia of Spain misses Malta visit Fiona Galea Debono President George Abela and King Juan Carlos I on his arrival at the airport, yesterday.

Spain's government on Friday approved a sweeping reform package designed to reduce its recession-hit economy's reliance on the construction sector and usher in a more sustainable growth model.

Madrid, Nov 28 A package of regulatory reforms, tax changes and measures to spur job creation will reinvigorate the Spanish economy in 2010, Economy and Finance Minister Elena Salgado has said.

Prized for their impressive antlers, red deer have been caught in the hunters' sights for generations.

In a country where half a million motorcycles are sold, but where stars of the sport rarely visit, the Spaniard made an early morning trip to the Yamaha Motor Thailand factory in Bangkok before spending the afternoon at the capital city's most important dealership, the Yamaha Rider's Club.

Actor Robert Downey Jr. attends 'Tropic Thunder' photocall at the Kursaal Palace during the 56th San Sebastian International Film Festival on September 20, 2008 in San Sebastian, Spain.

Published: Friday, November 27, 2009 at 7:05 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 27, 2009 at 7:05 a.m. Tim Montgomery says he started taking performance-enhancing drugs because he wanted to beat American sprint rival Maurice Greene and become the fastest man in the world.

Santander's Alliance & Leicester is re-introducing its 100 pounds cash bonus for those switching to its Premier Current Account.

In three papers published back-to-back in Science , they provide the first comprehensive picture of a minimal cell, based on an extensive quantitative study of the biology of the bacterium that causes atypical pneumonia, Mycoplasma pneumoniae .

Nick Reilly, the head of GM Europe, detailed GM's plans to employee representatives from Opel and sister brand Vauxhall.

Winona Ryder attends Marie Claire Prix de la Mode 2008 awards at French Embassy on November 20, 2008 in Madrid, Spain.

Tourists walk through the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain. Photograph by: Jose Luis Roca, Getty Images It was well past midnight, the tourist hordes had left, and the last security guard had called it a night.

Published: Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 2:14 a.m. ST.

Eleven suspects have been arrested after a lengthy investigation by police in Spain and France which has dismantled an international drugs organisation linked to organised crime in Marseilles.

"There are large faults in the eastern part of the Baetic mountain range, which are active and occasionally cause moderate, low magnitude earthquakes ," Antonio Pedrera, lead author of the study and a researcher in the Department of Geodynamics at the University of Granada , said.

A Swiss adventurer went down in the Atlantic on Wednesday while trying to fly from Morocco to Spain with jet-powered wings strapped to his back.

Against the backdrop of the magnificent Sierra Nevada mountains in Granada, the Alhambra, meaning a oered castlea in Arabic, was named for the reddish-golden hue of its walls.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has unveiled a Network of Men Leaders to act as male role models in a campaign opposing violence against women.

Many people who are overweight or obese develop insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes at some stage in their lives.

Cvent, the leading provider of meeting management and site selection software for over 20,000 meeting planners and travel procurement professionals across 29 countries, announced that the Cvent Supplier Network now allows planners to source meetings across the entire globe.

An image of the Virgin Mary presiding over a classroom full of students. These pervasive Catholic symbols, still present in some Spanish public schools, may soon become things of the past.

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The government of Extremadura in southwestern Spain has launched a sexual-education campaign for teens that includes workshops on masturbation Candice C. Cusic / PA Between gay marriage, decriminalized abortion and all that pornography on TV, you'd think that the Spanish would be impossible to shock.

A pack of seven bulls used on the overseas set of the made-in-Boston spy flick " Knight & Day ," starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, broke free in Cadiz, Spain on Sunday, Nov.

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MADRID: With Spain facing its worst recession in decades, the government will approve this week a sweeping package of reforms aimed at changing the nation's economic growth model, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Sunday.

New Russian champions Rubin Kazan are interested in Getafe striker Roberto Soldado, according to a report in Marca.

Madrid - Cash-strapped Spaniards are pulling their hair out over the economic crisis - literally.

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

Lottery sellers in Spain are protesting at what they consider is a back-door privatisation of their business.

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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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.

Aminatou Haidar was deported by the Moroccan authorities and says Spain is holding her against her will The Western Sahara human rights activist, Aminatou Haidar, began a hunger strike at Lanzarote Airport at midnight on Sunday, saying she will not eat until she is allowed to return to her home in the disputed territory's main city, Laayoune.

El PaA s leads with the headlines that the United States and China have agreed to - liquidate' the climate change congress in Copenhagen.

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Zaragoza, Spain, Nov 9, 2009 .- Speaking at the fourth International Pro-Life Congress which began on November 6, president of the Spanish Federation of Pro-Life Associations Alicia Latorre noted that abortion is the 'gravest problem that Spain is facing' and charged, 'We will nto rest until there are no abortions.' During the Congress's first ...

MADRID: Spain's economy contracted in the third quarter, although at a slower pace than in previous quarters, official data showed Thursday, contrasting with a return to growth elsewhere in Europe.

Somali pirates, the new 81 year old TV boss, public sinners and masturbation on the Spanish front pages today El Mundo headlines that the Ministry of Defence wants to extradite the two captured pirates to Kenya.

In this Thursday Sept. 24, 2009 file photo, Iranian film director Hana Makhmalbaf protests as she arrives at a movie theater holding a banner against Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and a portrait of Neda Agha Soltan, a woman who was killed in a Tehran protest, at the 57th Film Festival in San Sebastian, northern Spain.

Google's street view program which allows users to see streets and monuments in 360 degrees on their computers and mobile phones has been expanded across new areas of the country.

Everyone who's been to Europe laments the incredible percentage of monuments covered in scaffolding.

A convicted Basque terrorist is using the threat of hunger strike to blackmail a judge into throwing out a bid to extradite him back to Spain, a court in Belfast has heard.

The long-delayed prototype of Airbus' first military transport plane has been moved from the factory for final ground tests ahead of its maiden flight next month, a spokeswoman said Friday.

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Spain's wine is ripe for the picking. Rioja is the most famous of Spain's wine-producing regions, but increasingly, other areas are making names for themselves, said Frank Slezak, wine manager at Spagio Cellars.

Eleven suspected Islamic extremists of South Asian origin went on trial Thursday over an alleged plot to stage suicide attacks on the Barcelona subway system on orders from the Pakistan Taliban.

This work has analysed the development experiences by the jihads in Spain after the 3/11, and the author has analysed the information of the 28 most relevant police actions carried out since March of 2004 against the jihadist networks in Spain, without considering those directly related to the investigation of Madrid bombings.

Shoemaker to the stars STUART WEITZMAN has landed a bizarre honour in Spain - his first Oscars Million Dollar Shoe features on a new postage stamp.

New Delhi: Spain''s Crown Prince Felipe called on President Pratibha Devisingh Patil here on Wednesday.

I think that there are many friendly cities in Europe, but I think Barcelona, Spain is my favorite.

Oscar winner SIR BEN KINGSLEY has been feted for his long-running career at the 2009 European Film Festival in Seville, Spain.

Actor Denzel Washington attends 'The Taking Of Pelham 123' photocall at Villa Magna Hotel on July 17, 2009 in Madrid, Spain.

Defending America's Cup champion Alinghi of Switzerland says it is preparing to hold its showdown against American challenger BMW Oracle Racing in Valencia, Spain, starting Feb.

Poland signed a deal Monday to sell surplus greenhouse gas emission rights to Spain in what is the first move for Warsaw of its kind.

Ford Motor Co. unveiled the industry's first inflatable seat belt, a combination belt and airbag designed to reduce crash injuries for rear-seat passengers, especially the young and elderly.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is the proverbial canary in the mine. Gunning down 12 soldiers and one civilian, and wounding 31 was not a random act of violence by an army psychiatrist who was slated to deploy to Afghanistan , an evil war in his mind, where American infidels are killing good Muslims.

Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation in contravention of a UN arms embargo, maritime experts said on Monday.

Two, blue overalls, of the seven suspected Somali pirates are guarded by Kenyan security officers as they arrived at the port's police station in Mombasa, Kenya, Monday Nov.

By MARK McLAUGHLIN THE family of a young father who was killed by a car in Spain are demanding a fresh inquiry following evidence that he may have been attacked and robbed before his death.

That is the conclusion by researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Centre for Agro-Food Research and Technology of Aragn in a new study on the nutritional labelling of breakfast biscuits.

St. Augustine's history has always been connected to the northern Spanish city of Aviles -- the birthplace of Pedro Menendez -- and now the city's upcoming 450th birthday will make that connection deeper and more pronounced.

A Spanish judge would consider sending two Somali pirate suspects held in Madrid back to Africa, as demanded by pirates holding a Spanish fishing boat and its crew off the Somali coast, it was reported Friday.

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Thousands of people have demonstrated in Bermeo in northern Spain in support of the 36-strong crew of a trawler hijacked off the coast of Somalia more than one month ago.

The number of foreigners living in Spain continues to increase, despite the recession.

A policy of forgetfulness has long hidden Spain's mass graves. Now the bodies, Lorca among them, are being disinterred Bodies displayed in a street of Barcelona during the Spanish civil war.

BARCELONA, Spain - After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world's rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenhagen.

People would be willing to pay more for products that carry detailed nutritional information than for the so-called light items.

Barcelona, Spain -- Negotiators and diplomats were working Thursday on a scaled-back version of a global climate change treaty that could be agreed by next month's deadline.

Spain says it will not negotiate over two Somalis held on piracy charges, despite pleas from the relatives of Spaniards held hostage in Somalia.

Most notable among these fossils is the discovery of a new hadrosaur, the Arenysaurus ardevoli , found in Huesca, Spain.

A side event at the final climate change negotiations currently underway in Barcelona, Spain - has heard of Solomon Islands' Planning and Action for Climate Change Adaptation.

By ARTHUR MAX Associated Press Writer BARCELONA, Spain - Negotiators at a U.N. climate conference in Spain further defined plans for reducing greenhouse emissions and continued work on a draft climate change treaty, with next month's deadline for a legal document increasingly in doubt.

A Waterford pensioner has been killed in a hit and run in Spain. 68 year old Michael Barry died in hospital after being knocked down in Costa Blanca.

Negotiators and diplomats were working Thursday on a scaled-back version of a global climate change treaty that could be agreed by next month's deadline.

Spanish police have arrested a 44-year-old man who Danish police say is John Knudsen, the prime suspect sought in the murder of his girlfriend, Kirsten Bay Andersen.

The first commercial space hotel is expected to open in 2012, according to a plan of the Galactic Suite Space Resort company as quoted by media reports Thursday.

AS A Spanish comedian who has been doing stand-up for 20 years, Simon Palomares is a rare beast.

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The world must overcome differences about fighting climate change and agree on a United Nations pact in December without leaving any more than details for 2010, the UN's top climate official said on Wednesday.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that world nations are unlikely to strike agreement on details of a new climate change pact at a key U.N. summit next month.

Boycotts on either side of the Atlantic on Tuesday showed just how difficult it will be to clinch an agreement on global warming next month.

Francisco Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, who went into exile during the country's decades of dictatorship, died Tuesday.

Greenpeace climbers hang a big banner reads "World Leaders Make Climate Call" at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain,on Monday, Nov.

Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 9:38 am Press Release: UNFCCC PRESS RELEASE: Barcelona UN Climate Change Talks to put in place solid foundation for success at Copenhagen read the release on our website: " The last negotiating session before the historic UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December kicked off Monday in Barcelona, Spain.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Monday stressed the need for European Union countries to jointly repatriate undocumented immigrants.

The United States came under increased pressure Monday to come up with a plan for fighting climate change and to offer an internationally acceptable policy for curbing pollution hastening global warming.

El Pais leads with the story also, and headlines that Rajoy has put pressure on Camps and Aguirre to resolve the crisis in 24 hours.

Denmark's Ambassador to Spain Lars Thuesen rides past the Royal Palace with a boy yesterday in Madrid.

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MADRID: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has canceled a visit to Spain next week amid alleged disagreements between the two nations over the command of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon .