Tag: #Madrid
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Atletico Favourites to Win Spanish Title: Zidane
Zidane says that Atletico are favourites to win the Spanish title.
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Five Spanish regions close borders to fight virus
Madrid, Oct 29 (AFP/APP):Five more Spanish regions, including Madrid, said Wednesday they would close their borders ahead of the All Saints’ Day long weekend to try to halt a surge in coronavirus infections. Spanish families traditionally visit the graves of loved ones on the November 1 holiday to leave flowers. As this year the holiday…
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Spain holds regional elections amid coronavirus
MADRID, July 12 (Online): Spaniards in two northern regions are voting in regional elections Sunday amid tight security measures to avoid more outbreaks of the coronavirus. Regional authorities in both Basque Country and Galicia have prohibited over 400 people who have tested positive for the virus from leaving their homes to vote. Spain’s Supreme Court…
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Coronavirus: First Lady of Spain tested positive
Madrid, 15th March: According to the reports, the First Lady of Spain María Begoña Gómez Fernández has been tested positive for the coronavirus, raising alarms among their government. The government of Spain has confirmed the detection of coronavirus in the wife of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez yesterday. The tests of two of Sanchez’s cabinet…
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Betis skipper Sanchez, 38, extends contract until 2021
Madrid, Dec 26 (AFP/APP): Real Betis skipper Joaquin Sanchez on Thursday extended his contract with the Seville club for one more year until June 2021. Sanchez cuts an iconic figure at the southern club, and in December became the oldest player in La Liga to score a hat-trick at 38 years, 140 days, bettering the…
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Five reasons the COP25 climate talks failed
Paris, Dec 26 (AFP/APP): The climate summit in Madrid earlier this month did not collapse — but by almost any measure it certainly failed. Four years after the fragile UN process yielded the world’s first universal climate treaty with all nations pitching in, COP25 was billed as a mopping-up session to finish guidelines for carbon…
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Spanish game suspended after ‘Nazi’ chants
Madrid, Dec 16 (AFP/APP): A second division match in Spain between Rayo Vallecano and Albacete was suspended at half-time on Sunday after Rayo fans sang songs calling Albacete’s Roman Zozulya a “Nazi”. The game was stopped during the first period at Vallecas and then suspended at the interval after Rayo supporters had chanted “puta Nazi”,…
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Activists to rally for mass climate march in Madrid
Madrid, Dec 6 (AFP/APP): Thousands of activists from around the globe will simultaneously hit the streets of Madrid and Santiago on Friday to demand urgent action on the climate crisis from world leaders attending the COP25 summit. The main march will take place in Madrid on the sidelines of the UN climate conference, with a…
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Nadal inspires Spain to sixth Davis Cup triumph
Madrid, Nov 25 (AFP/APP): Rafael Nadal put the finishing touches to his extraordinary year by clinching a sixth Davis Cup title for Spain on Sunday as he beat Denis Shapovalov in Madrid to seal victory over Canada. Nadal’s 6-3, 7-6 (9/7) win over Shapovalov in front of an adoring home crowd at the Caja Magica…
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Van smashes into Spain’s Ceuta enclave with 50 migrants inside
Madrid, Nov 18 (AFP/APP): A speeding van carrying 50 migrants smashed through a border barrier between Morocco and Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday, local police said. The white van raced toward the border “at full speed” and “smashed” a border gate, a spokesman for Spanish police in Ceuta told AFP. There were…