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SPAIN: Judge Garzon Swoops Down on ETA Youth Group
Spain's famous "human rights" judge Baltasar Garzón personally led a police operation Tuesday in the Basque Country and Navarra that ended in the arrest of 15 leaders of Haika, the youth organisation that backs the terrorist Basque separatist group ETA, and supplies it with militants.ENVIRONMENT-SPAIN: Incineration of Cattle Jeopardises Vultures
Mad cow disease and outbreaks of foot-and- mouth disease, which are sowing panic in Europe, are indirectly threatening the survival of the region's carrion-eating birds like vultures and royal eagles, most of which live in Spain, warn environmentalists.SCIENCE/HEALTH: Advances in Human Genome Widen North-South Gap
While the advances in biogenetics reported Monday in Washington, Paris, London, Tokyo and Berlin constitute a major breakthrough, they will widen the gap in medical care between the industrialised North and developing South, researchers warn.HEALTH-SPAIN: Seven Arrested in ‘Mad Cow’ Disease Scare
Seven individuals were arrested in Spain after 4,634 breaches of animal health regulations were detected in the inspections carried out as a result of the crisis caused by the appearance of cases of "mad cow" disease in Spain, the Natural Protection Service (Seprona) reported Thursday.RIGHTS-SPAIN: Solidarity Grows as Immigrant Situation Worsens
The situation of immigrants is deteriorating in Spain, but civil society groups and opposition political parties are expressing growing solidarity, and farmers are pressing the government for permission to hire foreign nationals who are already in the country in search of a job.HUMAN RIGHTS-CHILE: Judge Orders House Arrest for Pinochet
Chilean prosecuting Judge Juan Guzmán ordered the prosecution and house arrest of former dictator Augusto Pinochet Monday as the intellectual author of 57 homicides and 18 kidnappings of political prisoners committed by the so- called "death caravan" shortly after the 1973 coup.POPULATION-SPAIN: Immigrants Threatened with Deportation
A new immigration law took effect Tuesday in Spain just as thousands of foreigners face expulsion, hundreds of people reached day four of a hunger strike and the government announced migration accords with seven countries.HEALTH-SPAIN: Mad Cow Scare Claims Political Victim
The European crisis arising from mad cow disease claimed its first political victim in Spain as the government's director general of livestock, Quintiliano Pérez Bonilla, resigned Friday.EUROPE: Latest Victim of NATO’s Radioactive Weapons Reported in Spain
The number of victims of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) war in the Balkans is still climbing throughout Europe, with the latest victim of the bombing with depleted uranium (DU) reported Friday in Spain.MEDIA-MOROCCO: Press Circumvents Censorship through Internet
The independent press in Morocco has had to turn to the Internet to get around closures by the government, carried out despite the democratisation process launched last year when King Mohamed VI was crowned after the death of his father, Hassan II.RIGHTS-CHILE: Pinochet Case Sees ‘One Insufficient Step Forward’
The orders for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial, issued last Friday, are another step towards justice, but not enough to ensure that the legal proceedings will continue through to the end, says jurist Joan Garcés, head of the legal team that filed criminal charges against Pinochet in Spain.HEALTH/AGRICULTURE-SPAIN: Mad Cow Disease Brings Enormous Losses
Spanish stockbreeders are suffering major losses due to the appearance of "mad cow" disease. On top of a plunge in domestic consumption, Poland banned imports of beef from Spain Monday.POLITICS-SPAIN: Against all Bets, King Has Changed the Country
The 25-year reign of Juan Carlos of Bourbon has changed Spain, giving the lie to all predictions. The monarch is credited with making the coexistence of democracy and liberty possible following four decades of dictatorship under Francisco Franco.RIGHTS-SPAIN: Gypsies Demand Recognition of Marriage Rites
Organisations of gypsies or Roma in Spain are demanding that their traditional marriage ceremonies be granted the same official recognition enjoyed by the religious rites of Jews, Muslims, Catholics and Protestants.ENVIRONMENT-EUROPE: Seas Threatened, North and South
The sinking of a ship carrying toxic chemicals in the English Channel and the presence of a damaged nuclear submarine at the Rock of Gibraltar, in the north and south of Europe, respectively, have triggered alarm among environmentalists, politicians and scientists.RIGHTS-SPAIN: Argentine ‘Mothers and Grandmothers’ Decry ETA Violence
Three Argentine human rights organisations expressed their solidarity Tuesday with Spain's Victims of Terrorism Association and denounced the Monday bombing, blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA, that left three people dead.POLITICS-SPAIN: ETA Car-Bomb Kills 3, Injures 38
A Supreme Court judge, his driver and his bodyguard were killed and 38 others injured Monday in the Spanish capital by a car-bomb explosion blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA.RIGHTS-COMMUNICATIONS: Basque Reporter Wins Internat’l Award
Spanish journalist Carmen Gurruchaga received the annual award of the international organisation Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF - Journalists Without Borders) at a Friday ceremony for her ongoing fight to defend press freedoms in Spain's Basque Country.LITERATURE-SPAIN: Plagiarism Case Reawakens “Authors’ ” Nightmare
á- The plagiarism allegedly committed by a popular Spanish journalist in her first novel has, as a secondary effect, exposed the reach of "ghostwriters," those who author works that are signed by others./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ MUSIC-CHILE: Youth Symphony a Hit in Europe
A Chilean symphony orchestra, made up of adolescents ages 13 to 17 from one of the country's poorest regions, has launched a tour in Spain after receiving accolades in Germany.SPAIN: ETA Chief Arrested in France
French and Spanish militarised police officers arrested Iñaki de Rentería, considered the head of the illegal Basque separatist organisation ETA, in France Friday, the Spanish foreign ministry reported.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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