A young woman is due to testify in a Spanish court today in a bid to persuade a judge to let her die voluntarily against the wishes of her father, in the first case of its kind. The 23-year-old woman […]
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Guy Hedgecoe Business reporter Reporting fromSegovia, central Spain Getty Images Spain attracts the second highest number of overseas visitors after France It’s a chilly mid-winter afternoon in Segovia, in central Spain, and tourists are gathered at the foot of the
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Guy Hedgecoe Pascual Andreu doesn’t plan to reopen his chocolate business after the factory was damaged by flood water Pascual Andreu points proudly to a black-and-white photograph stuck to the wall of the premises of his chocolate-making business. Staring out
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Getty Images Spain’s initial unity has been shattered by recriminations a week after the floods A week after flash floods hit eastern Spain, recriminations are flying over who was to blame for the country’s worst natural disaster in living memory
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Reuters Firefighters pump the water out of a tunnel where vehicles piled up in Alfafar, Valencia As Spain reels from the flash floods which struck the south-east of the country this week, many are wondering why the death toll, which
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As Spain grapples with the fallout from the flash floods which struck on Tuesday, the blame game has already begun, with disaster relief services accused of being slow to react. Much of the country has been badly hit by heavy
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Reuters It’s well past the August holiday peak, but anger against over-tourism in Spain is spilling into the off-season, as holiday-makers continue to seek winter sun. On Sunday locals in the Basque city of San Sebastian plan to take to
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RTVE DNA samples were taken in 2003 from the bones of Columbus – known in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón – and his son Hernando More than five centuries after he re-shaped history by opening up the New World to European
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BBC Asylum seekers such as these can find work in Spain six months after they have arrived A group of Sub-Saharan African men are playing bingo in a conference room of a hotel near the northern Spanish city of León.
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After days of mounting bilateral tensions, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil has summoned Spain’s ambassador in Caracas in order to protest at a minister’s description of his country’s government as a “dictatorship”. Gil described as “insolent, meddling and rude” comments
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