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La Liga Preview Real Sociedad v Real Madrid
Sociedad sit fourth in the table and are locked in a battle with Valencia, who are behind them on goal difference only, for the position, which would earn them entrance into the UEFA Champions League qualification stages next ...
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Petrol and diesel go up in price
Spain's cheaper petrol is due to lesser fiscal pressure than in other member States, despite the IVA hike having caused a sharp rise in prices in ...
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Tax fraud means ordinary residents bills inflated by 2000 euros annually
, the country's fiscal authorities, this varies by region from 2,776 in La Rioja to 1,113 in Extremadura, but means a typical inhabitant in Spain sees 1,910 euros a year more coming out of their income than they would if tax avoidance did not ...
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Gender Differences In The Prescribing Of Analgesics In Spain
Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A study published in Gaceta Sanitaria (Spanish health scientific journal) affirms that this phenomenon is influenced by socioeconomic inequality between genders in the Autonomous Community in which the patient resides. In 1999, a researcher at the University of Harvard, Ishiro Kawachi, ...
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Leibovitz wins top Spanish award
US photographer Annie Leibovitz has won the prestigious Prince of Asturias award for humanities in Madrid. One of the world's top portrait photographers, the jury hailed her as a "driving force" in photojournalism. Her pictures, which include singer John Lennon naked and actress Demi Moore pregnant, "reflect an era of politics, literature, film, music and sport". ...
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The Government will approve in cabinet today the pre project for the ‘Law for Entrepreneurs’ which is designed to help in the creation of new businesses.
The Government will approve in cabinet today the pre project for the 'Law for Entrepreneurs', which is designed to help in the creation of new businesses. Some of the changes - IVA need not be paid until the factura has been paid and the IVA collected. This comes into force on January 1 2014, for small businesses which have a cash-flow of less than 2 million EUR Investors ...
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Spanish Speaking Parents Learning English Through Unique Program
Springdale, AR - Imagine not being able to understand what people are saying to you when conversing. it's a reality many Spanish speaking parents in Springdale face on a daily basis. However, a unique program in the Springdale School District is helping them to learn ...
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Documents show Britain bugged King Edward VIII paid Franco brother
King Edward VIII before his abdication and paid key Spanish leaders to keep the country neutral. The documents also include a letter describing a long night Prime ...
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Cleverley taking inspiration from Spain
Manchester United midfielder Tom Cleverley believes Spain's blueprint of blending youth with experience is the way forward for England.The Spaniards are aiming for their fourth consecutive major trophy in Brazil next year - with two European Championships and one World Cup so far - something no other nation has ever done.And Cleverley believes emulating Vicente del Bosque's approach of ...
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Barcelona make final Neymar offer
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Barcelona has reportedly made a final offer of 23 million euros to sign Brazil international striker Neymar during the European summer transfer window. The Catalan club's football director Raul Sanllehi returned to Spain on Thursday after a week of negotiations ...
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Activists protest against bullfighting in Spain
Animal rights activists pretending to be bulls stuck through with banderillas lie on the ground covered with mock blood during a protest against bullfighting in Barcelona May 23, 2013. The activists collected signatures to present to the government in protest against a draft law currently in parliament that would protect bullfighting as part of Spain's heritage and national interest. ...
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Program seeks Greensburg-area host families for Spanish students to visit for 4-week summer sojourn
Those interested in serving as a host family can contact Elizabeth Frescura for an application and more information at 724-689-8567 or email her at ...
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Schools look to streamline Spanish Immersion
Growing to its largest size ever next year, the Spanish Immersion program at Hatch Elementary School has been hailed as a successful educational venture, and dozens of parents each year compete to enroll their child in the ...
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Mass sell-off in Spains Bankia hit small investors
MADRID (Reuters) - Small investors in shares of in Spain's nationalised lender Bankia suffered new massive losses on Thursday as the stock plunged by more than 50 percent amid an abnormally high volume of trading which the stock market regulator said would be looked at closely.Tens of thousands of small savers, who were often missold preference shares and hybrid debt in Bankia, swapped ...
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Archaeologists in Mexico discover thousands of ancient cave paintings
Archaeologists are reporting the discovery of nearly 5,000 cave paintings at 11 different sites in Mexico, likely created by early hunter-gatherers. The red, white, black and yellow images discovered near Burgos in eastern central Mexico depict humans engaged in hunting, fishing and gathering, and animals such as deer, lizards and centipedes. The paintings are as yet undated but archaeologists ...
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Madrid move first in race to sign Isco from Malaga
Real Madrid appear to have stolen a march on Manchester City in the race to sign Malaga starlet Isco after the player's father and Malaga executives were snapped driving into Madrid's Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on ...
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Spain Under-21 squad for Euros named
La Rojita will be hoping for a vast improvement to their Under-23 Olympic campaign last summer, when they were dumped out at the group stage featuring many players who have been named for the tournament in Israel in June.Five players have been called up that were included in the victorious Spain side two years ago, including current captain David de Gea, whose performances in the tournament ...
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Real Madrid begins its fight for the Spanish League title against Blusens Monbus
One comes out as the leader; the other arrives with a newcomer’s hopes and everything to win. Real Madrid and Blusens Monbus begin the fight for the League title in the Palacio de los Deportes (tomorrow, 7:15 pm, La 1). Without precedents for this playoff game, both sides shoulder their arms to win the first point of the round of eight playoffs, to be decided by the best of three games. ...
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Spains stock market regulator to probe trading in Bankia shares
MADRID | Thu May 23, 2013 2:54pm EDT MADRID May 23 (Reuters) - Spain's stock market regulator on Thursday said it would investigate if the abnormally high volume of trading in nationalised lender Bankia shares during the day was in breach of market rules. Close to 50 million shares in Bankia changed hands on Thursday, or about 42 times the average daily volume over the last three ...
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Taiwan to be theme country for Spanish film festival this summer
TAIPEI -- Taiwan has been chosen as the theme country of the 10th Asian Summer Film Festival in Spain to be held July 9-14, the Ministry of Culture said ...
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Northlands Spanish Jazz looks a cut above in Saturday allowance
Email Spanish Jazz figures to be tough to handle when he runs in a first-level allowance race at Northlands Park Saturday. The six-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up drew six horses and has been slotted as the second of eight races carded. Post time for the first race is 1 p.m. Mountain.Trainer Robertino Diodoro had Spanish Jazz ready to roll when he debuted in a $30,000 optional maiden ...
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Spanish woman recognised as illegitimate daughter of wealthy landowner
A Spanish woman has won recognition as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner and now lays claim to a 15 million euro (£9.9 million) ...
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Spanish unemployment Indignant undignified
JOS GARCIA used to work as a doorman. But two years ago he lost his job. Since then the 62-year-old has lived off unemployment insurance built up when he was working. This month it runs out. Now he hopes for EUR426 ($550) a month in long-term state subsidy. With unemployment above 27%, he does not expect to work again. "I'll keep looking, but the queue will always be long," he ...
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The Spanish economy On being propped up
, most accept their lot with resignation. The government of Mariano Rajoy is unpopular, but so is the opposition. And whereas many other stricken euro-zone countries blame the Germans for their woes, Spaniards recognise that they are paying for their own excesses, especially the burst property bubble. The numbers are grim. The economy is in deep recession. In the first three months of the year ...
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The Indignant Ones the inspiration to sit-in demonstrations called the Spanish…
The Indignant Ones, the inspiration to sit-in demonstrations, called the Spanish government to resign MADRID - Spain's "Los Indignados", or the Indignant Ones, were back at the country's squares on Sunday on the second anniversary of their grassroots movement to protest the government and its policies amid a crippling financial crisis.Thousands of demonstrators -- mostly the ...
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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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