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Real Sociedad coach to leave at end of season
Spanish Primera Liga football club, Real Sociedad have confirmed that coach Philippe Montanier will leave the club at the end of the current season. The side from the Basque city of San Sebastian issued a communique Tuesday in which they admit Montainier has turned down the club's offer of a new contract, reports Xinhua. According to the club, Montanier has "communicated to Real Sociedad the ...
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Jose a failure at Madrid Ramon Calderon
Former Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon has described departing club coach Jose Mourinho as a failure, and added that Real Madrid will be glad to see him go. According to report by The Sun, Real's current president, Florentino Perez, claimed that Mourinho could not cope with pressure, as it was easier for him to work in England. Calderon said it was Mourinho's character that made it more ...
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Strike threat for Spanish basketball league play-offs
Spanish basketball was thrown into turmoil late Tuesday night with the news that players from the Endesa ACB League will go on an indefinite strike from Sunday. The strike comes at the start of the quarter-finals of the play-offs of the ACB League which will decide the eventual champions of the competition, reports Xinhua. The players are striking in order to force a collective agreement which ...
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Neymar to join Barcelona in July Reports
Brazilian striker Neymar has agreed in principle to join Barcelona, July 1. The 21-year-old striker is understood to have signed a deal last week to join the Spanish giants following the Confederations Cup in Brazil, reports Xinhua. Neymar's current club Santos could ratify the deal Wednesday. As anticipation surrounding the move intensified, Barcelona star Lionel Messi said Neymar would be a ...
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Antonio Banderas to portray trapped Chilean miner
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas will star in "The 33", a film based on the story of survival of the miners buried for more than two months in a mine in northern Chile, Variety reported. Banderas will portray Mario Sepulveda, the charismatic miner who earned the nickname "Super Mario". The announcement was made by producer Mike Medavoy at the Cannes Film Festival. The filming, to be directed by ...
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Spain spent $680 million on submarine that ‘can’t resurface’
Thrills&Spills Spanish engineers, who already spent some $680 million on designing the new generation S-80 class submarine, say it is a major "technical innovation." There is just one problem the calculations show - if submerged into water, it may never come up again. The Spanish media has been furiously discussing the errors made by the state-owned Navantia construction company, ...
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Spanish flamencos coming home... to India
Spain's oldest flamenco festival will visit India in 2014, retracing the origins of the classic Spanish musical form, organisers said Wednesday. The Cante de las Minas festival plans its first overseas event in March in Jodhpur, in Rajasthan state -- considered the home of the migrant gypsies from whom southern Spain's flamenco culture sprang. "We were inspired by the search for ...
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Happy anniversary Felipe and Letizia
PRINCE Felipe and Princess Letizia tied the knot today nine years ago at the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid in front of millions of television ...
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Gibraltar Moves Toward UEFA Membership as Spain Resists
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Spain banks may need to raise money to meet provisions-Rajoy
BRUSSELS | Wed May 22, 2013 12:11pm EDT BRUSSELS May 22 (Reuters) - Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday said the country's banks may have to raise capital on the financial markets to meet higher provisioning requirements. Rajoy, who was speaking at a news conference following a summit of European leaders in Brussels, said however that Spain would not need to tap ...
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Messi approves of Barcelona signing Neymar - video
Striker Lionel Messi comments on reports that Brazilian striker Neymar has agreed to join Barcelona on 1 July. A move to Europe for Neymar has been talked about for the last two years, but there is a chance such a move could be put on hold until after the Brazil World Cup in ...
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Messi would welcome Neymar at Barcelona
Barcelona remain confident of beating off strong competition to sign Neymar The Santos attacker, 21, has long been linked with a move to the Catalan club, and talks with the players’ various owners are thought to be well advanced. On a promotional trip to Qatar this week, the Argentine told local TV channel Alkass that Neymar would bring something different to the Barca front line. ...
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Telefonica cuts handset prices to win back Spanish clients
domestic market on Wednesday to fight increasing competition in the recession-hit country. Telefonica, which stopped subsidizing handsets for new clients last year to save cash, lost over 700,000 mobile customers in the first quarter of the year as cheaper rivals, such as Yoigo, ...
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Drug trafficker mistakes two plain clothed Guardia Civil offices as clients
A drug trafficker in Valencia made a mistake at the Arenal Sound Music Festival, when she went up to two plain clothed Guardia Civil and offered them drugs, it happened back in 2011, but the case has only now come to court. The woman today accepted a year and a half in prison, and the payment of a fine of 130 EUR When the agents detained her they found 8.85 grams of hashish, a blue MDMA ...
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Woman arrested for simulating a theft in her sons bar
The Guardia Civil has today arrested a woman who lives in Artana, Castelln. She is accused simulating a robbery at her son's bar after she lost two days takings in a fruit machine. She said she was frightened if her son found out. She tried to recover the money, but 'incoherencies' in her declaration to the Guardia Civil gave her ...
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Bulls Draft Pick Nikola Mirotic Named MVP Of Spanish League
Mirotic, 22, is now the youngest MVP in ACB history. The 6-foot-10 power forward earned MVP honors after averaging 12.6 points and 5.5 rebounds this season as Real Madrid earned a 30-4 record to win the league by four games. Mirotic shot 50.5 percent overall and 43.5 percent from three-point land, while shooting 80.7 percent from the free-throw line. Drafted by the Bulls with the 23rd pick in ...
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Francis Meets with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Brey of Spain
Current Economic Situation, Importance of Marriage and Family Among Topic DiscussedBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY, April 16, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Yesterday, Pope Francis met with Mariano Rajoy Brey, prime minister of Spain at the Vatican Apostolic Palace.The Spanish Prime Minister met later on with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State, who was accompanied by Archbishop ...
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Spain Studies 15-Year Syndicated Issue Inflation-Linked Bonds
Spain is considering a 15-year bond sale through banks this year as well as offers of index-linked and dollar-denominated debt as it seeks to tap investor demand, Deputy Treasury Head Ignacio Fernandez-Palomero Morales said. "We could still access the markets with a potential syndicated issue in the range of 15 years," Fernandez-Palomero said at a news conference ...
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Spain Paper Review - Wednesday May 22 2013
Publish your add for free Please note that only Spain-related classifieds will be accepted The Classifieds are ordered by ...
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La Rioja and Spanish wine win awards from Decanter magazine
The 2013 edition of the British Decanter Wine Magazine prizes for the best wines in the world, which saw applications this year of 14,300 different wines, has rewarded La Rioja and other wines of Spain with 18 gold medals. The British Market now makes up one in three bottles of La Rioja, with no sign of any reduction. Cavas and olorosos from Jerez obtained four regional trophies. The ...
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Sergio Garcia said Tiger Woods fried chicken remark not racist
Sergio Garcia walks off the 2nd green after missing a putt for birdie during the second round of the Masters at Augusta National on April 12, 2013 in Augusta, Georgia. UPI/Kevin ...
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12 Greenpeace activists arrested in Spain
Spanish police said they arrested 12 Greenpeace activists for parking a fishing boat outside the Ministry of Agriculture and chaining themselves to it. Greenpeace members organized the demonstration to encourage the Spanish government to meet with the group and discuss promoting more environmentally friendly ways of conducting trade. Celia Ojeda, a spokeswoman for Greenpeace, said that ...
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Spain’s Attacks on Fighting Back
At a demonstration near the Spanish parliament on April 18, a housing rights activist joked that the crowd should divide up with terrorists on one side and Nazis on the other. Everyone laughed, but there is a dark side to his sarcasm. Since March, local and national politicians have used every name in the book to delegitimize the Platform for Mortgage Victims, a grass-roots movement that has ...
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The Real Madrid-Osasuna match will be played on Saturday 1st June at 2100
Real Madrid now know the start time for the match that will be played against Osasuna, as part of the final match day, number 38, of the La Liga season. The Whites will play the team from Navarra at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday 1st June at 21:00. The kick-off time is subject to change if it were to have no impact on the final league ...
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Spain replants after centuries of deforestation
Centuries of deforestation have turned Spain's lush forests into barren scrublands, making them vulnerable to erosion. But volunteers are working to revive the landscape and protect local water ...
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Barcelona on the frontline in the cancer fight
Cancer has become the leading killer of the elderly in Europe; it is an awful, painful disease that has become something akin to a pandemic. Progress has been made in its diagnosis, and further progress is being made in its treatment, and Barcelona, by hosting the European Breast Cancer Conference, is playing a major part in the sharing of ideas and knowledge to facilitate improvements and new breakthroughs.
The city of Barcelona will play a significant role in the prevention and promotion of awareness of breast cancer when it hosts the annual European Breast Cancer Conference this year. Breast cancer is among the leading killers of women around the world, and although mortality has begun to drop worldwide, and especially in Europe, there is still much progress that can be made. Read more
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