Corrupt mayors, bent builders concrete over Spain
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SESENA, Spain  - "I'll swap you seven corrupt councilors for two bent mayors," says Spain's prime minister during a game of cards. "I'll raise you one dodgy constructor," the opposition leader replies.
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Small explosions rattled two towns in northwestern Spain on Saturday, wounding four people, after a telephone warning from a caller claiming to be from the Basque separatist group ETA, officials said.
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Hundreds of people face losing their retirement homes in Spain due to shady property dealings.
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Spain's prime minister accused the  previous government of deceiving the public about who carried  out the March 11 train bombings and of erasing computer records  for the crucial three days between then and elections.
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State investigators probing possible corruption are looking into city contracts and scrutinizing renovation work at the mayor's home, The Associated Press has learned.
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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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Two bombs exploded in two coastal towns in northwestern Spain, after an anonymous tip-off by a caller claiming to belong to the Basque separatist organization ETA, an interior ministry spokesman told AFP.
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MADRID -- Spaniards go to the polls on Sunday to elect local and regional officials who are responsible for such services as garbage collection, schools, and running the village fiestas. But the way the campaign is being run, it feels like an election for the next prime minister.
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A retired British couple watched in horror as their dream house on the southern coast of Spain was bulldozed because of a planning row with local authorities that could see hundreds of other holiday homes razed
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MADRID -- Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero alleged yesterday that his predecessor's government erased computer records after the March 11 train bombings, when it blamed Basque separatists amid mounting evidence of an Islamic link.
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World leaders have been flooding President Bush with congratulatory calls since his reelection victory, but at least one -- Spain's Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero -- appears to be having trouble getting through.
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In the six months since voters put them in office, Spain's Socialists have set in motion a dramatic public policy turnabout on what American voters might call moral issues, infuriating the Catholic Church and ...
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Spanish police found material for making explosives and bombs in raids Saturday in Barcelona, which also led to the arrests of 14 people in connection with a suspected radical Islamist terror network, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.
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Britons and other expats in Spain win council seats in local elections, putting new parties on the political map.
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For centuries, San Juan's fortified stone walls have withstood the assaults of waves and cannonballs. But the vibrations of traffic and the weight of heavy tourist buses are causing parts of the walls to crumble.
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Spain's Football Federation launches an investigation into racist comments made by national coach Luis Aragones.
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Spain's prime minister outlined on Sunday his government's program to resolve troubles in the Basque region during his first visit there since the armed separatist group ETA shattered a cease-fire in December.Comment