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Shipwreck treasure voyage near end

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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A man rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, 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 tradition 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)

500 year old tradition in Spain

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 12:55pm

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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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(MANU FERNANDEZ/The Associated Press) Spanish bullfighter Jose Tomas waves to the crowd after performing at the Monumental bullring in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. Spain’s powerful northeastern region of Catalonia bids farewell Sunday to the country’s emblematic tradition of bullfighting with a final bash at the Barcelona bullring.

Spain’s Catalonia bids farewell to bullfighting

Iain Sullivan The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:07pm

BARCELONA, Spain — Matadors drove the killing sword into bulls for the last time Sunday in Spain’s powerful northeastern region of Catalonia in an emotive farewell fight before a polemical regional ban on the country’s emblematic tradition takes effect.

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Protesters hold pictures of a slain Jesuit priest that reads in Spanish "No more impunity," left, and a slain civilian as a soldier stands guard outside the barracks where nine former soldiers and officials, who are suspects in the case of the 1989 slaying of six priests and two other people, are being held in San Salvador, El Salvador, Wednesday Aug. 24, 2011. Protesters are demanding justice related to the killings during the country's civil war by former soldiers and officials. The six priests, who worked at a Jesuit-run university, were found slain on Nov. 16, 1989, along with a housekeeper and her teenage daughter. (AP Photo/Luis Romero)

El Salvador pursing war crimes suspects in Spain

Jorge Sainz The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 11:37am

MADRID -- Spain has asked El Salvador to clarify the legal status of nine former military officers indicted in Madrid over the slayings of six Jesuit priests during the Central American country's 1980-1992 civil war, a court official said Thursday.

El Salvador's Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to order the arrest of the nine, saying it has not received a formal extradition request from Spain. The men surrendered in El Salvador voluntarily this month, but are not under arrest.

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Tourists clash with police in Spain

Sinikka Tarvaninen Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Last updated Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 4:08pm

BARCELONA -- Hundreds of young people, many of them tourists, clashed with police early Thursday in Lloret de Mar on Spain's northeastern Costa Brava, police said.

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