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January 27th, 2011
Around 500 bar, restaurant and hotel owners in northern Spain closed their premises yesterday to protest against Spain's new anti-smoking law, which they argure is ruining businesses. In the first protest to take placer since the ban was introduced on January 2, owners took to the streets in the town of ...
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January 26th, 2011
Film director Alex de la Iglesia said that he will resign as the president of the Spanish Film Academy in protest over a proposed new law against illegal Internet downloads he feels is inadequate. The 45-year-old, who is behind the 2008 English-language whodunit "The Oxford Murders", said he will step down ...
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January 17th, 2011
Google has rushed to court in Spain to defend itself against Spanish privacy laws, in a case that will be heard in Madrid this Wednesday. The case, a significant test of tightening privacy laws in the developed world, revolves around Spain's data protection authority ordering Google to remove almost 100 online ...
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January 14th, 2011
A ruling made on the 22nd of December against Ryanair's heavily criticised policy of demanding that its passengers print out their own boarding card or face a penalty of €40 has been made public today. Ryanair has been told by a court in Barcelona that the pratice is "unfair and therefore ...
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November 29th, 2010
For the first time in five thousand million years, the Sun has an owner and it is a 49-year-old Spanish woman from Salvaterra de Miño in the northwest region of Galicia. The notary who attended to Ms. Sol Angeles Duran was at first flummoxed by the claim and was forced to ...
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November 22nd, 2010
Spain's socialist government will approve a draft law in March 2011 on end-of-life care that will allow people with incurable diseases to "die with dignity", the deputy prime minister said Friday. The law will spell out the rights of patients facing death and their families and the medical staff who care ...
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November 19th, 2010
A judge in this southern resort city of Marbella has levied a surety of more than 60 million euros on actor Sean Connery and the other principal defendants in a corruption case. In addition, under indictment in the case are Connery’s wife, former Marbella Mayor
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October 11th, 2010
Sixty per cent of Spanish people are in favour of legalising euthanasia, according to an official survey which also found that only one person in 10 actively opposed it. Support for legalised euthanasia has grown steadily over the years, cutting across political party lines and religious beliefs, with socialists and ...
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September 27th, 2010
Almost 100 defendants, including two former mayors, have appeared in court in the Spanish city of Malaga for the first day of one of the country's biggest ever corruption trials. The scandal, which broke in March 2006, centres on the alleged payment of millions of euros in bribes to city officials ...
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September 24th, 2010
Google announced it had won a major copyright-infringement case in Spain on Thursday, affirming that the Internet giant is not responsible for copyright violations when users post material on its YouTube website. A federal court in Madrid, Spain, found that it is the responsibility of copyright owners
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