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May 14th, 2010
The General Council of the Judiciary, Spain's judicial supervisory board, has temporarily suspended judge Baltasar Garzon after the Supreme Court decided to proceed with charges related to a 2008 investigation of the atrocities committed during and after the Spanish Civil War, the atrocities were already covered by an amnesty.
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May 11th, 2010
Tomorrow, Telefónica will launch the first payphone in Spain which can also be used as a recharging station for electric cars. The initiative forms part of an agreement between the telephone operator, headed by Cesar Alierta, and the energy supplier Endesa, to provide owners of electric vehicles a greater opportunity ...
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May 6th, 2010
Catalan police have arrested the head of the judicial police unit of the Guardia Civil in Puerto de Barcelona for allegedly being part of a plot to steal cargo containers that arrived at the docks. Police sources said that they have opened a secret investigation at the port, as it ...
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May 5th, 2010
A government spokesperson in Extremadura, Carmen Pereira, said today that a man arrested yesterday by the Guardia Civil driving at 248 km/h, has been charged with a crime of reckless driving for endangering the lives of two children. Pereira said that, on Tuesday, a vehicle was stopped travelling
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April 21st, 2010
Juan Antonio Samaranch, honorary president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has died at the age of 89 years after suffering a cardiac arrest at 13:25 today in Chiron Hospital, Barcelona. Samaranch had been admitted to hospital on Sunday because of heart problems. His funeral will take place tomorrow morning ...
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April 16th, 2010
Police in Cadiz have arrested a 25-year old man, with 24 previous offences, accused of committing fraud amounting to over 600,000 euros from private telephone operators in Spain, by opening erotic lines and fictional tarot readings. The detainee, known as Cristian VP, was the ringleader of a network that has ...
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April 12th, 2010
The Spanish government has today approved a package of 26 anti-crisis measures covering six main sectors that they hope will improve the recovery and tackle unemployment. The six sectors involve housing rehabilitation, business stimulus, small and medium business support, greater safeguards for citizens and consumers,
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March 31st, 2010
Local police have reported that a man living in Lleida doused himself with petrol and tried to set fire to himself in front of an estate agent’s office yesterday, the estate agent allegedly owed him more than three thousand euros. The events occurred at about 13:30 pm yesterday in Calle Sant ...
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March 29th, 2010
Police have confirmed the arrest of a man aged 39 years old at the weekend, the man is accused of illegally imprisoning his wife for over a year in the basement of a building of Viladecans in Barcelona. The victim, of Moroccan origin, lived in a basement in
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March 25th, 2010
The former Spanish international football manager, Luis Aragones, has declined an offer from Seville FC to manage the team until the end of season. Seville are now left without a first team boss after dismissing their latest manager, Manolo Jimenez, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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