Spain Snubs U.S. in National Day Parade
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Spain celebrated its National Day on Tuesday with a military parade that added French troops and snubbed the United States by dropping the recent participation of U.S. Marines.
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It may have been raining outside in Seville today but it didn&#39;t dampen the mood of either the Spanish or American teams, as they appeared before the world&#39;s press.
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Spain's Parliament overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to grant increased autonomy to the troubled Basque region, with lawmakers on Tuesday accusing the region's president of an unconstitutional attempt to secede.
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Organizers of Spain's top annual fashion show on Saturday rejected five models as being too thin to appear in this year's event.
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The Spanish government rejected out of hand a new peace proposal made Sunday by Basque separatists because it did not renounce violence, reports the Scotsman.
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De Niro at the Venice Film Festival. ROME, Italy  -- U.S. film star Robert De Niro snubbed the country of his forebears twice in as many days, standing up dignitaries in Rome on Friday after refusing a ...
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Spain may have been a stopover for secret CIA flights but there is no evidence that violations of international law were committed on its soil, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said on Thursday.
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President Vicente Fox won't give his traditional Independence Day salute of "Viva Mexico" from the capital's main plaza, his interior secretary said Thursday, as supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised to disrupt the annual celebration.
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Spain's prime minister condemned an initiative by Basque lawmakers to make their region virtually independent, deriding it Monday as secessionist, unconstitutional and anomalous in a Europe seeking to become more united.
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Spain says it will not put up with the influx of African migrants after more than 1,400 arrives in the Canaries at the weekend.
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Spain's prime minister, heckled Monday by opposition lawmakers, angrily denied his Socialist party instigated anti-government rallies on the eve of a general election to reap political benefit from the Madrid train bombings.
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MADRID (International Herald Tribune) - The Spanish government on Tuesday dismissed a proposal by the head of the Basque regional government to let Basques vote on whether to continue being part of Spain. The plan presented to Prime Minister JosÃ© Luis RodrÃ­guez Zapatero by Juan JosÃ© Ibarretxe, head of the Basque government, revived debate about the status of the Basque region amid a crackdown by the authorities on the separatist movement's radicals as well as questions of nationhood threatening to dominate general elections in March.  Zapatero rejected the proposed referendum as unconstitutional and said it was a rehash of a similar plan, floated by Ibarretxe in 2005, that was rejected by Parliament. That plan called for Basques to vote on becoming a "free associated state" within Spain and for separate representation before bodies like the European Union. Ibarretxe, a leading member of the Basque Nationalist Party, which governs the region as part of a coalition, denied that a referendum would be illegal and vowed to press ahead with it in October 2008. He said it would be the first step in a "Basque-style Downing Street process," referring to the 1993 declaration by the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom that paved the way for peace in the British province of Northern Ireland.
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Spain has taken action to head off a diplomatic row with Israel over a campaign by a Spanish village against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, an Israeli embassy spokesman said Wednesday.
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Rows over Spain's National Day parade highlight deeper divisions that continue within the country.
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 14 -- President Vicente Fox backed away from a confrontation with AndrÃÂ©s Manuel LÃÂ³pez Obrador on Thursday, announcing that he wouldn't hold his annual Independence Day celebration at the capital's main Zocalo plaza to avoid protesters.
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HAVANA -- Fidel Castro failed to attend a military parade yesterday marking the 50th anniversary of the date he and his rebels launched their revolution, fueling speculation that the ailing Cuban leader may not return to power.
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Spain on Tuesday mourned six of its peacekeepers who were killed in a bomb blast in southern Lebanon on Sunday, with flags flown at half-mast on a national day of mourning. via Ya Libnan