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Many hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Spain’s capital cities yesterday in commemoration of the ninth anniversary of the killing of PP councilor Miguel Angel Blanco by the Basque terror organization Eta. The aim of the demonstrations was to protest the Socialist government’s talks with Eta, in which it is evidently apparent that the more than 800 victims of terrorist attacks have died for nothing. Although the organizers officially asked members of the Socialist Party to attend, not one Government official or member of the Party was present at any of the countrywide demonstrations.
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Two Russian men have been arrested in Marbella as the result of an international arrest warrant. The men, who lived in houses some 300 metres apart on the luxury Bahia de Marbella Urbanization, are wanted in connection with the assassination of the Governor of Magadan some four years ago. At the time police raided their homes, they presented false passports, and their real identities were discovered after their genuine passports were found.
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The Partido Popular yesterday tabled a series of questions on the march 11 bombings and requested that Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba appear before the usual Parliamentary committee to answer them. According to PP spokesman Eduardo Zaplana, the most serious of these is a report from the head of the Spanish Bomb Squad that clearly shown one version of the events was given to the Parliamentary Committee of Enquiry into the bombings, and a different version altogether was given to investigatory magistrate Juan del Olmo. “Whatever version Mr. Rubalcaba states is the correct one, “added Mr. Zaplana, “ the house of cards that the Socialists have built around March 11 is sure to come tumbling down, with their reasons over the bombings resembling a science fiction movie.”
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The Spanish airline pilots union SEPLA and national carrier Iberia reached an agreement last night, and as a result, the current pilots strike will be called off today. However, analysts have stated that it will be Saturday – at least – before the Iberia network gets back to normal.
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It has been revealed that the Catalan Autonomous elections will take place on all saints’ day – November 1 – with the official election campaigns opening on October 15. Sources inside the Catalan Government stated that the dates were set in order to cause as least a disruption to normal working lives as possible.
Police in Alicante have detained six rapists – five Spaniards and a Bolivian – just six days after four of them fled the Province. At least one of the arrestees, who is 73, is set to undergo a five-year jail term for raping a young girl six years ago in San Vicente del Raspeig. A year ago, he fled the Province but was discovered yesterday. Another of the arrestees should have been serving a prison term for a rape that took place seven years ago. He was arrested in a tumbledown house in Santa Pola.
Hezbollah guerillas yesterday killed seven Israeli soldiers and captured two others, which led to Israel staging air strikes and military raids inside southern Lebanon. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah stated that only ‘direct negotiations’ would be the way for Israel to have the soldiers returned. Meanwhile, on a second front, Israeli rockets felled the Foreign Ministry of the Palestinian government yesterday in Gaza
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Firefighters in California evacuated dozens more people from their homes yesterday as a fire raced across the desert and destroyed several structures of a location where dozens of Westerns had been shot. Winds of over 40 mph fanned the flames, which led officials to express doubt as to when the fire could be brought under control, having already scorched over seventeen thousand acres.
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