Spain sues U.S. firm over treasure ship
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The Spanish government said Thursday it has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against an American firm over a shipwreck the company has found laden with a colonial-era treasure.
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A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island.
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San Franciscoâs Golden Gate Yacht Club sued the two-time Americaâs Cup champion Alinghi yesterday, seeking to replace the Spanish syndicate Desafio EspaÃ±ol as the official challenger for the next regatta. Golden Gate asserted that Club Nautica EspaÃ±ol de Vela was an âinvalid challengerâ because it never held a regatta as stipulated in the rules of the âdeed of gift,â the regulations that govern the Americaâs Cup. The suit was filed in the State of New Yorkâs Supreme Court, which has jurisdiction to settle all disputes in the competition.
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The Colombian government has filed a lawsuit accusing Pernod Ricard SA, Diageo PLC and Seagram Export Sales Co. of illegally importing spirits via Colombian companies that launder drug money.
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Spain launched a drive Monday to win European support for a bid to include the traditional Mediterranean diet on a U.N. list of protected world cultural treasures.
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A man who stole the gun Theodore Roosevelt used in the Spanish-American War's most famous battle has pleaded guilty to violating a law designed to protect cherished U.S. antiquities, prosecutors said.
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WASHINGTON  - The Bush administration gave notice on Thursday that it will pursue an unfair trade case accusing the 25-country European Union of operating a confusing tariff system that harms the ability of U.S. exporters to make sales.
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Royal Ahold NV, the food retailer that owns the US Giant chain, agreed to sell its Spanish business to Permira funds for 685 million euros ($851 million).
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A stolen 15th century map dating to the dawn of modern printing, a decade before Christopher Columbus sailed to America, was returned to Spain on Monday.
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Spanish prosecutors are seeking a total  of 222,000 years in prison and nearly $1.17 billion in fines  for three suspects accused of aiding the Sept. 11, 2001,  attacks on the United States.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Attorneys for a US-based security company accused of setting up sham companies in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme in Iraq are contending in court that the company cannot be sued under a key federal anticorruption law because the allegedly stolen money belonged to Iraqis, not Americans.
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A Spanish court orders the capture of two US boats if they leave Gibraltar, amid a row over shipwreck treasure.
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MADRID, Sep 25  (IPS) - Several popular Spanish rock groups helped collect  600,000 signatures and delivered them to the government Tuesday  in support of an international campaign calling for the Spanish  government to modify its trade policy towards Africa and  eliminate restrictions on imports from that region.
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A Spanish judge has asked U.S. authorities to file criminal charges against a U.S. bank and seven senior executives for concealing millions of dollars belonging to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond brokerage that suffered more deaths in the Sept. 11 attacks than any other company, on Friday sued al Qaeda, Saudi Arabia and dozens of foreign companies seeking damages related to the attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Association seeks monetary damages from alleged film pirates.
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Syrian-born arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar has been arrested in Spain and now faces extradition to the United States for trying to sell weapons to Colombian rebels, U.S. and Spanish authorities said on Friday.