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Spanish Consul General in Boston sacked for closing doors

Madrid - Pablo Sánchez-Terán, the Spanish Consul General in Boston, USA, was fired after he decided to shut up shop just 2 hours after the Boston Marathon bombings, because "it was closing time."

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Video: Massive fireball in the sky over central Spain

Toledo - Astronomers were stunned by a huge fireball which lit the skies over central Spain this weekend. Apparently this was a fragment from a meteor which burst into flames.

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Video: Golfer Sergio Garcia hits ball from tree at Bay Hill

What does a pro-golfer do when his ball ends up in a tree? In the case of Sergio Garcia, he climbs up there and hits it, one-handed.

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Second, five-day strike causes Iberia to cancel flights (video)

Madrid - Spanish airline Iberia has canceled 1,370 flights due to a second strike by flight and ground staff, including pilots this time, protesting against job cuts. (Video update).

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Video: British woman shouts racist abuse at Nigerian student

A video shows a British woman shouting racist abuse against a Nigerian student Gina Thompson, 23, and her Spanish friend. The clip was filmed at around 7:30 p.m. at Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk.

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Spanish PM Rajoy denies secret payment scheme by ruling party

Madrid - The ruling Partido Popular and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy have denied that the party made payments from business donors to the PM and other party leaders, as a "slush fund" scandal emerges.

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Margaret Thatcher feared Spanish attack on Gibraltar

Gibraltar - Cabinet papers, released last Friday to the National Archives, show that the Spanish media's support for Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands made Thatcher nervous that Spain would invade Gibraltar.

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Photo Essay: Scenes of protest in Málaga and Fuengirola, Spain Special

We look back on past protests in both Málaga city and Fuengirola, Spain, and wonder what lies ahead for Spain and the rest of Europe in 2013.

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Car bomb defused outside La Jonquera megabrothel in Spain

Believed to be the work of gangs involved in a turf war, a car bomb was successfully defused in the car park of a brothel in north-east Spain.

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Students take to streets in protests throughout Spain

Madrid - Amidst ongoing protests throughout Spain, thousands of students took to the streets in Madrid on Wednesday, angry at proposed education cuts which they say leaves them with "no future."

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