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December 21st, 2009
According to a report by the Spanish Institute for Family Policy, every day there are 333 broken marriages in Spai , making the total number of break-ups for the first nine months of this year 89,883 . This total includes 83,616 divorces, 6,145 separations and 122 annulments, the full total ...
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December 31st, 2009
2009 is the sixth consecutive year there has been a decrease in the number of deaths by road traffic accidents, and the first to drop below 3,000 deaths, according to the Association for the Study of Spinal Cord Injuries (AESLEME), published in ' Balance of Road Safety 2009 '. 1969 was ...
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December 31st, 2009
Galician parents have chosen the languages to be taught to their children in primary and secondary education. The ultimate goal is "multilingualism" and three languages will be taught together - English, Castilian and Galician. Each language
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January 5th, 2010
In Spain, it is traditional for gifts to be given to children on the night of 5th or morning of the 6th of January. Like Santa Claus, children will often send a letter to the kings asking for the gifts they want and indicating why they deserve to receive gifts. ...
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January 12th, 2010
In scenes that are taking place throughout most of Spain, the first free laptops that the Junta de Andalucía and central Government are distributing to all Spanish students in the fifth and sixth grade have begun arriving in classrooms in Andalusia. Andalusian President, José Antonio Griñán, visited
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January 17th, 2010
The Ombudsman of the Community of Valencia, Jose Cholbi, has opened an investigation after a complaint into the condition of an overweight boy, being just 10 years old but weighing over 75 kilograms, he currently lives in a small village in the province of
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January 20th, 2010
Earlier today, the body of police officer, Rosa Crespo Biel, aged 47, was found dead in Haiti, as reported by the Zaragoza Police Headquarters with which she was commissioned. She had been missing after the earthquake that shook the country just
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January 23rd, 2010
The national police have arrested eight people and accused nine others in an operation carried out in 16 Spanish provinces against child pornography, they have seized videos and photographs in a suspected paedophile ring. According to the General Directorate of Police
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January 25th, 2010
The Minister for Health and Social Policy, Trinidad Jimenez, today announced an agreement between her department and all autonomous communities in Spain, which are now committed to make a decision on the benefit and care entitlement of dependents within a maximum six months - as well as thirty days in ...
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February 2nd, 2010
The president of the National Commission for the Rationalization of Working Hours in Spain, Ignacio Buqueras, has claimed that Spain should return to Greenwich Mean Time, as it was before the Second World War, and reorganise working day hours in order to improve the quality of life of its citizens. Buqueras ...
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