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Spain's royal family embroiled in corruption scandal

Last updated Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 12:20pm

MADRID -- The Spanish royal family's recent woes took a turn for the worse Wednesday when a court named the king's daughter Princess Cristina as a suspect in a corruption case involving her husband that has been dogging the Royal Palace for two years now.

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5 killed in cruise ship lifeboat drill

Arturo Rodriques The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 1:01pm

LA PALMA, Canary Islands -- A lifeboat from a British-operated cruise ship fell upside down into the sea at port in Spain's Canary Islands during a safety drill, killing five crew members and injuring three others Sunday, officials said. About 1,400 passengers were on board, but none were involved in the accident.

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A man rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals. On the eve of Saint Anthony's Day, hundreds ride their horses trough the narrow cobblestone streets of the small village of San Bartolome during the 'Luminarias' a traditional festival that dates back 500 years and is meant to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires, and protect them for the year to come. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Spain San Anthony Bonfire Festival

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 12:26pm

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Two girls with their faces painted with the colours of the Spanish flag pose to photographers during the holiday known as Dia de la Hispanidad, Spain's National Day in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Spain is in recession and under pressure to fix its finances while celebrating the day Christopher Columbus discovered America in the name of the Spanish Crown. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain's National day known as Dia de la Hispanidad

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 12, 2012 - 12:01pm

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Tornado, floods kill 9 in Spain

Joseph Wilson The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, September 29, 2012 - 8:03am

BARCELONA, Spain — A tornado swept through a fair ground in a Spanish town, knocking down a Ferris wheel and injuring 35 people, while the death toll from flooding in the same southern part of the country rose to nine, authorities said Saturday.

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Feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova show the court's verdict as they sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia on Friday, Aug 17, 2012. A judge found three members of the provocative punk band Pussy Riot guilty of hooliganism on Friday, in a case that has drawn widespread international condemnation as an emblem of Russia's intolerance of dissent. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Global protests held in support of Pussy Riot

Lori Hinnant The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, August 17, 2012 - 1:06pm

PARIS — They asked for undies on heads, masks, and as much color as possible on Friday. They got a topless activist hacking down a cross in Ukraine, balaclavas on Soviet-era statues of soldiers in Bulgaria, and signs for "Justice" in Spain.

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A reveler is tossed by a bull in the bull ring, at the end of third running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiestas, in Pamplona northern Spain, Monday, July 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Running of the bulls, July 9, 2012

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, July 9, 2012 - 11:45am

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Revelers cool off as they are doused with water thrown from balconies after the 'Chupinazo', the official opening of the 2012 San Fermin fiestas, Friday, July 6, 2012 in Pamplona, Spain. Revelers from around the world kick off the San Fermin festival with a messy party in the Pamplona town square, one day before the first of eight days of the running of the bulls. (AP Photo/Ivan Aguinaga)

Wine soaked partiers kick off Spain's San Fermin festival

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, July 6, 2012 - 11:39am

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In this photo dated Feb. 16, 2011 released by the Spanish farmer's union ASAJA, a cow which has been carved and stripped of most of it's meat lies in a field in Fernan Caballero, Spain. A rancher in central Spain went out one morning to view his 200-head herd of cattle and found two prized calves shot in the head at point-blank range, and perfectly slaughtered. Only the bony carcasses, with heads attached, remained in the muddy field. People enduring hardship are increasingly stealing the earth’s bounty from farmers to get by from day to day. Farmers in some areas are teaming up to carry out nighttime patrols to protect their crops and animals. (AP Photo/ASAJA)

Crop thefts growing in Spain

Daniel Woolls The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 10:14am

SANT CLIMENT DE LLOBREGAT, Spain -- Drop those cherries, you're under arrest. Crops and cops are converging along Spain's journey through economic crisis: People enduring hardship are stealing the earth's bounty from farmers to help get by from day to day.

Police have added the patrolling of farmland -- sometimes on horseback -- to their list of daily tasks. Farmers in some areas are teaming up to carry out nighttime patrols on their own.

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Leipheimer hit by car, 'lucky to be alive

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 3:07pm

GUENES, Spain -- American cyclist Levi Leipheimer felt "lucky to be alive" after he was hit from behind by a car while training for a race.

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Punk group fined for insulting Spanish king

Sinikka Tarvainen Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 3:17pm

MADRID -- Spain's National Court has handed fines to a punk rock band for insulting King Juan Carlos in a song it recorded, judicial sources said Thursday.

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A demonstrator walks during the general strike in Barcelona, Thursday, March 29, 2012 as trash burns in the street. Spanish unions angry over economic reforms are waging a general strike, challenging a conservative government not yet 100 days old and joining other troubled European workers in venting their frustration on the street.(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spaniards wage nationwide strike against austerity

Ciaran Giles, Daniel Woolls The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 11:53am

MADRID -- Spanish workers livid over labor reforms they see as flagrantly pro-business staged a nationwide strike Thursday and tried to bring the country to a halt by blocking traffic, closing factories and clashing with police in rowdy demonstrations.

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In this undated photo made available by the Spain's Culture Ministry, a member of the Ministry technical crew displays two of the 594,000 coins and other artifacts found in the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, a Spanish galleon sunk by British warships in the Atlantic while sailing back from South America in 1804, in a warehouse in Tampa, Fla. A 17-ton trove of silver coins recovered from the Spanish galleon was set to be flown Friday Feb. 24, 2012 from the United States to Spain, concluding a nearly five-year legal struggle with Odyssey Marine Exploration, the Florida deep-sea explorers who found and recovered it. (AP Photo/Spain's Culture Ministry, HO)

Shipwreck treasure voyage near end

Mitch Stacy The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 24, 2012 - 11:41am

TAMPA, Fla. -- A 17-ton trove of silver coins recovered from a Spanish galleon sunk by British warships on a voyage home from South America in 1804 was set to be flown Friday from the U.S. to Spain, concluding a nearly five-year legal struggle with the Florida deep-sea explorers who found and recovered it.

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A model's make up picture is stuck to a mirror backstage during the Autumn/Winter Madrid's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, in Madrid, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Spain Fashion Week. February 1,2012

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 12:23pm

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(EMILIO MORENATTI/The Associated Press) A man sleeps on the ground as he spends the night at the Catalunya square during a protest in Barcelona city, Spain, Sunday Nov. 13, 2011. Another troubled European government will almost surely tumble this weekend as Spanish voters braving sky-high unemployment, the sting of austerity, piles of debt and a bleak future are expected to dump the ruling Socialists and hand their national mess to opposition conservatives. Polls point to a crushing win on Sunday and perhaps even a huge majority in Parliament for the Popular Party led by Mariano Rajoy. The banner reads in Catalan “Indignation”.

Job-hungry Spaniards seen electing center-right

Daniel Woolls The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 8:29am

MADRID — Another troubled European government will almost surely tumble this weekend as Spanish voters braving sky-high unemployment, the sting of austerity, piles of debt and a bleak future are expected to dump the ruling Socialists and hand their national mess to opposition conservatives.

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