Archives for August 2010
August 17th, 2010
The Spanish government is trying to defuse diplomatic tension with Morocco over incidents on the border with the Spanish enclave of Melilla, which Morocco claims as its own. Moroccan activists, meanwhile, announced new blockades of goods traffic into Melilla in protest at alleged Spanish police brutality
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August 17th, 2010
Spain's government says three people have died in flash floods in towns close to the southern city of Cordoba, in Andalucia A statement released by the Interior Ministry said that one man was found dead this morning in a car that had been washed away in the sudden torrential overnight rain ...
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August 17th, 2010
Spain has joined the growing list of countries with concerns about Google’s Street View photo mapping service, with a judge opening an investigation into whether the company unlawfully collected data from unsecured wireless networks while gathering photographs for Street View. The judge, Raquel
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August 16th, 2010
Spain's prime minister has called off a meeting planned for Wednesday with leading firms in the country's struggling construction sector and no new date has been set, a government spokesman said on Monday. "The meeting has been postponed indefinitely,"
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August 13th, 2010
A forest fire fanned by shifting gusts of wind has killed two firemen in northwestern Spain, officials said today. The blaze broke out Thursday night near a village of some 2,000 people in Pontevedra province, part of Spain's normally cool and misty Galicia region. Firemen brought it under control
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August 13th, 2010
This week has seen Spain's National Institute of Statistics release a series of figures relating to house sales, the economy and consumer prices in Spain, with positive, if unspectacular, results. The figures start with the news that property sales in Spain rose by 10.7 percent in the first six months ...
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August 12th, 2010
Emergency services on Spain's Balearic islands have warned holidaymakers of the dangers of jumping off balconies and said the "balconing" craze has claimed four lives this summer and left many tourists seriously injured. The growing number of deaths comes amid a surge of serious accidents caused
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August 12th, 2010
The people of Gibraltar may soon find themselves having to pay to leave and enter their tiny peninsula as the Spanish mayor of neighbouring La Linea plans a toll charge on traffic to The Rock. Mayor Alejandro Sánchez says he will introduce the scheme within the next two months and the ...
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August 11th, 2010
The union of Spain's air traffic controllers have said it has called off a strike planned for August, easing fears of massive travel disruptions at the peak of the summer holidays. Spanish air traffic controllers agreed to restart negotiations with airport authorities today, averting an August strike that would have disrupted
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August 10th, 2010
Spain's much-publicized plans to put thousands of electric cars on the road as part of a drive for a greener economy are way off target, with only 16 sold so far. The government-back REVE electric car and wind power project said on its website Tuesday that 2010 sales are up ...
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