Spain villages said tone down festivals
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Some traditional Spanish festivals that include effigies of the Prophet Muhammad are being scaled back to avoid offending Muslims, a leading Spanish newspaper reported Monday.
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MADRID - The Spanish government said it deplored the racist chants which marred Spain&#39;s friendly win over England, blasting the fans&#39; behaviour as &quot;lamentable&quot; and &quot;intolerable.
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MEXICO CITY - Atascaderos' rats ran out the cats, sniffed at poison and scared off bounty hunters. Now villagers are just going to have to live with them, say officials in the northern state of Chihuahua.
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A set of lyrics proposed only last week for Spain's wordless national anthem were yanked Wednesday amid criticism that they smacked of the country's right-wing past and did not reflect its rich cultural diversity.
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A senior Spanish government official has asked organisers of the Madrid Masters tennis tournament to stop using models as ball-girls.
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Spain's prime minister must hate Saturdays. That's the day of the week hundreds of thousands of people march through the streets of Madrid chanting for him to resign for allegedly making concessions to Basque rebels ETA.
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MADRID, Spain  - Knee-deep in red mush, tens of thousands of revellers pelted each other with tons of ripe tomatoes Wednesday in Spain's messiest summer party.
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Officials in Alsace have urged the French government to ban private neo-Nazi gatherings after a number of covertly organised skinhead celebrations were held in the region.
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A row over whether the last visible vestiges of the regime of former military dictator General Francisco Franco should be removed continues to rumble on in Spain after the conservative Madrid government rejected left-wing proposals to remove them from the capital.
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Spain's Basque regional government  called on armed separatist group ETA to renounce violence on  Tuesday, stepping up political pressure on the severely  weakened guerrillas to lay down their arms.
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MADRID, Spain - Spain plans to impose stricter rules on production of a staple of the national diet and increasingly popular export - ham from free-range pigs that feed on acorns and herbs - in order to weed out stable-bound impostors, a newspaper said Sunday.
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SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain  - Forget the violins and the  soft fade to waves on a beach as the sweethearts embrace.
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PARIS, Oct 24  - A French Jewish student group that planned a hard-hitting campaign against anti-Semitism using the figures of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary on Sunday agreed to tone down its message.
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The basilica in which General Franco is buried will no longer be used to hold political rallies in celebration of Spain's former dictator, according to a new law to be voted on at the end of the month.
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Residents in three villages apply for an injunction to prevent animal rights extremists entering the area.
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In a move to protect Spain&#39;s image and bid for the 2012 Olympics, Spanish leaders stressed that its citizens and sports fans are not racist.
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Proposed social reforms in Spain spark Catholic anger about a perceived erosion of family values.