In Spain, a Monumental Silence
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General Francisco Franco is long dead, but his shrines continue to divide the generations.
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IN an otherwise perfect hotel, the Palacete de Penalba, in the Asturias region of Spain, there is no elevator - a key issue for us, stroller-pushing tourists.
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MADRID Compared with the ruinous attacks that struck Spain in March, the bombings over the past 14 days in the northern provinces might be expected to attract little notice: Seven weak explosives, wrapped in ...
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Spaniards never have to worry about forgetting the words to their national anthem. It has none.
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NAN REN, China -- The silence in this dusty brick-making town seems idyllic. But the quiet is really the calm after a storm -- one that residents fear will soon return.
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Parties were cancelled, trees on Paris&#39;s Champs Elysees avenue were shrouded in black and Australia led a global minute of silence.
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LIVERPOOL, England  - Two minutes&#39; silence was held in the native city of Kenneth Bigley as the British engineer&#39;s family struggled to come to terms with his brutal murder by Islamic extremists in Iraq.
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A blaze in a skyscraper in the Spanish capital lights up the night sky but no-one is thought to have been inside.
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Beneath the ominous calm that has settled since the recent uprising is anger, uncertainty and hopelessness.
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The most striking, and the most potentially significant, public rebellion against President Leonid D. Kuchma and his chosen successor in last Sunday&#39;s contested election began silently.
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A SERIOUSLY ill pensioner abandoned at a hospital casualty department by his family before they flew back to Spain was yesterday unaware of the fuss surrounding him.
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ANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain, JAN. 7, 2005 .- In a message for the closing of the Compostelan Holy Year, John Paul II affirmed that "Spain and the whole of Europe need to recover the awareness of ...
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ELEANOR HALL: Almost nine months after Spain was devastated by the bombings in Madrid which killed 191 people, the country is again facing the spectre of terrorism, though this time it&#39;s the work of a well-known enemy.
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The 'Voice of Switzerland', which has been broadcasting to listeners around the world for almost 70 years, will fall silent later this month.
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There are stunning locales but not much subtlety on display in âMilarepa.â
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THE SPANISH king and queen have cut short official visits after the sister of Princess Letizia, their daughter-in-law, was found dead in her apartment.Comment
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Spain is marking the third anniversary of the Madrid terror bombings that killed 191 people on Sunday with the unveiling of a towering glass monument bearing messages of condolence left written in the days ...Comment