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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Spain unveiled a towering monument on Sunday to those killed three years ago in the bombings that ripped apart rush-hour commuter trains _ a glass oval containing messages of condolence written in the aftermath ...Comment
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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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Across Europe, in railroad stations and department stores, at airports and palaces and subway stations people bowed their heads in silence today.
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LONDON -- Throughout Europe, people bowed their heads for a three-minute silence yesterday at noon in remembrance of the more than 150,000 victims of the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami. Hundreds of Europeans are known to have died in the devastating tsunami, and thousands remain missing.
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The demonstrators stood silently along the sidewalk in a column that stretched for miles.
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Spaniards never have to worry about forgetting the words to their national anthem. It has none.
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A silence fell across Britain Friday as the country commemorated the moment a year ago when the first suicide bombers in western Europe killed 52 people along with themselves in coordinated attacks on the transit system.
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Europeans observed three minutes silence on Wednesday with mass tributes at busy railway stations, bustling stock exchanges, homes and offices in memory of the tens of thousands who died in Asia's tsunami disaster.
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Almost two weeks after the royal coup, the capital remains mostly quiet, a testament both to the ambivalence of Nepalese disillusioned by their short experience with democracy and to the chilling efficiency of the government's measures to suppress dissent.
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Spain marks the third anniversary of the Madrid  train bombings by unveiling a towering glass memorial.
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As dawn rose over the Grand Hotel in Brighton, bodies were being prised from the rubble of an IRA bomb, and the silence of the back offices was broken by the sound of a printer.
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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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Spain's signature wine, long sneered at by the cognosecnti, is in the midst of a revival.
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A three-minute silence is observed throughout the UK as a mark of respect to victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Spain's Canary Islands can no longer cope with a huge influx of illegal migrants from Africa, officials say.
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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