Tag: spain
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Goffin ends three-year wait for fifth title after ‘difficult days’
Montpellier, France, Feb 28 (AFP/APP):Belgium’s David Goffin captured his fifth ATP title but first in more than three years with victory over Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut in the Montpellier final in Sunday. Goffin, the 30-year-old world number 15, saw off top seed and 13th-ranked Bautista Agut 5-7, 6-4, 6-2. “I gave it my all today.…
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Spain’s tainted former king settles tax debts
Madrid, Feb 26 (AFP/APP):Spain’s former king Juan Carlos, who moved to the UAE last year under a cloud of scandal, has settled a debt of nearly 4.4 million euros ($5.3 million) with the Spanish tax authorities to try to avoid an embarrassing lawsuit. The debts — the second batch Juan Carlos has settled in less…
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Driverless bus hits streets of Malaga in southern Spain
Málaga, Spain, Feb 25 (AFP/APP):A new driverless electric bus has begun operating in the southern Spanish city of Malaga, in a project presented as a first in Europe. The bus, which began running on Saturday, is equipped with sensors and cameras and links Malaga’s port to the city centre on an eight-kilometre (five-mile) loop it…
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The European Court of Justice fines Spain 15 million euros
Brussels, Feb 25 (AFP/APP): The European Court of Justice fined Spain 15 million euros ($18.3 million) on Thursday for failing to transfer EU data protection rules into its own laws. Spain will also face a daily ongoing penalty of 89,540 euros for each day it fails to do so. Member states had until May 6, 2018 to transfer…
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Spain extends ban on arrivals from UK, Brazil, S.Africa
Madrid, Feb 23 (AFP/APP):Spain on Tuesday extended its ban on arrivals from Britain, Brazil and South Africa until March 16 to safeguard against the spread of new coronavirus strains from these countries. Only legal residents or nationals of Spain and the neighbouring micro-state of Andorra are currently allowed in on flights from these countries. The…
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Migrant found hiding in toxic waste in Spain
Madrid, Feb 22 (AFP/APP):Police found a would-be migrant hidden in a sack of toxic waste at the port in Spain’s Melilla enclave on Morocco’s northern coast, police said Monday. The discovery was made on Friday when a person was found unconscious in a sealed plastic bag containing flue ash, a by-product of burning coal which…
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Rapper’s arrest the last straw for Spain’s young protesters
Barcelona, Feb 21 (AFP/APP):At Saturday’s protest, a hood covers one young woman’s hair, a mask her face. Only her dark eyes can be seen staring out at the latest demonstration in Barcelona against the jailing of Spanish rapper Pablo Hasel. Hasel was jailed for the radical — his critics say incendiary — lyrics of his…
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Strains test Spain’s leftist coalition government
Madrid, Feb 19 (AFP/APP):In office for just over a year, Spain’s leftwing coalition grouping the Socialists and hard-left Podemos is showing signs of strain with constant bickering between the two camps. The latest clash between Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists and his junior partners was triggered by this week’s violent protests over the jailing of…
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Spanish Rapper Pablo Hasel arrested over tweets praising terrorists
Madrid, Feb 19 (AFP/APP): Spanish rapper Pablo Hasel was imprisoned this week over tweets praising convicted terrorists, although he was also sanctioned for accusing the police of torture and the Crown of corruption. Since his jailing on Tuesday, Spain has seen nightly demonstrations which have deteriorated into running battles between police and protesters. At issue…
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Dozens of people arrested in Spain after a second night of clashes
Madrid, Feb 18 (AFP/APP): Dozens of people were arrested in Spain after a second night of clashes over the jailing of a rapper for controversial tweets, triggering a political backlash. Angry demonstrations first erupted on Tuesday night after police detained Pablo Hasel, 32, who was holed up in a university in Catalonia to avoid going…