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Extra Springsteen gig tickets sell out in 8 hours

According to event promoters, Doctor Music, 72,000 tickets for a Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band concert at the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona on the 19th July next year, sold out in just under eight hours today.
The concert is a series of extra dates that will comprise the second half of the European leg [...]

30Nov2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Late trains minister survives censure vote

Development minister, Magdalena Álvarez, survived a motion of censure proposed by the CiU and ERC parties by just three votes yesterday as the PP sided with the minority extreme left, Republican and nationalist parties it has been so critical of during their nearly four years in opposition.
Ms Álvarez, who arrived twenty minutes late for yesterday’s [...]

29Nov2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Spain enjoys soft draw for 2010 World Cup

Madrid - Spain is expecting a relatively smooth run to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa after Sunday’s draw for the qualifying round placed it in the same group as Turkey, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Armenia and Estonia.
Turkey aside, Spain has beaten all the other teams in recent years. The Belgium team, which is currently facing [...]

26Nov2007 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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School failure in catalonia intensifies

One in three young people abandon their studies before the end of their secondary education.Catalonia is at the head of this sad list of school failures in Spain and the E.U according to a study carried out by The Jaume Bofill Foundation. If the state average is 30%, here in Catalonia it reaches 34%. Only [...]

23Nov2007 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Websites promoting anorexia shut down in Spain

MADRID, Nov 20, 2007 (AFP) - Four websites accused of promoting anorexia and bulimia as acceptable weight-loss methods have been shut down in Spain, a spokesman for Microsoft’s Spanish division said Tuesday.
The weblogs, housed by the Microsoft division, were shut down at the request of Catalan Internet quality control agency Iqua, the spokesman added. He [...]

21Nov2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Private detective agency head ‘certain’ missing British girl is alive

MADRID, Nov 19, 2007 (AFP) - The head of the Spanish private detective agency hired by the parents of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann said Monday he was “certain” she was abducted and is alive. “We believe with great certainty that Madeleine is alive and there are sufficient facts to conclude there was a kidnapping,” [...]

20Nov2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Five more arrests in Madrid corruption probe

MADRID, Nov 18, 2007 (AFP) - Five Madrid city hall employees have been jailed, bringing to a total of 22 people arrested to date in connection with corruption allegations, Spanish media reported Sunday citing judicial source. The alleged corruption centres around the granting of licences for businesses, bars, restaurants and discos in the Spanish capital.
 
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19Nov2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Chavez demands apology from Spain’s king

CARACAS, Nov 16, 2007 (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez demanded Friday that Spain’s King Juan Carlos apologize for telling him to “shut up” during a summit in Chile last week. Chavez said Juan Carlos should “offer some type of apology.” A diplomatic row erupted at the Ibero-American Summit last Saturday when the king told [...]

17Nov2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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‘Hyperactive’ label fits French president: Spanish PM

MADRID, Nov 15, 2007 (AFP) - Spain’s prime minister has joined the chorus of voices calling French President Nicolas Sarkozy “hyperactive”, saying in an interview to be broadcast Friday that the French leader likes “to resolve problems very quickly”.
“Sarkozy is one of the most active leaders that I know,” Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said according [...]

16Nov2007 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Chavez warns Venezuela’s ties with Spain under review

CARACAS, Nov 14, 2007 (AFP) - A row between Venezuela and Spain escalated Wednesday as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he would review ties between the two countries after being told to “shut up” by the Spanish king. “We don’t want to damage (relations) but at this moment I am putting political, diplomatic and economic [...]

15Nov2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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