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Spain to Devote $4.67 Billion for Job Creation Over Next 4 Years
February 14, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Spain will devote 3.5 billion euros ($4.67 billion) over the next four years toward efforts to expand economic opportunities for young people and encourage self-employment, the government said Thursday. continue reading »
Bill Gates Discusses Difficulties of Education Investment in Spain
February 14, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Spain "is a good country" that is "going through tough times" amid economic stagnation and a 26.1 percent unemployment rate, philanthropist Bill Gates said in an interview with Efe in Mexico. continue reading »
Police Arrest 6 French Soccer Fans After Incidents at Match in Spain
February 14, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Six French nationals who traveled to this Mediterranean city for Paris Saint-Germain's Champions League match with Valencia were arrested after incidents outside the stadium, Spanish police sources told Efe Wednesday. continue reading »
Bill to Stop Evictions Gets Top Priority in Spain
February 13, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Spain's governing conservative Popular Party and main opposition Socialists agreed Wednesday to expedite a citizens' bill that would halt evictions of homeowners who are behind on their mortgage payments. continue reading »
Spain’s Foreign Minister in Japan Hoping to Improve Economic Growth
February 13, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Spain is looking to Japan as an ally for achieving economic growth via the "creation of joint enterprises" in areas of common interest, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo told Efe Wednesday. continue reading »
Spanish PM Honors Country’s World-Champ Handball Team
February 11, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday congratulated his country's world-champion national handball team for offering a "colossal image of Spain" abroad, showing that "one need neve continue reading »
Melia Hotels of Spain Now Looking to Americas, Asia for Expansion
February 11, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Americas and Asia are the main engines of growth for Melia Hotels International, although the Spanish and European markets remain important also, the Spanish firm's vice president continue reading »
5 Cruise Crew Members Die During Lifeboat Drill in Spain
February 10, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Five crewmen from a British cruise ship docked in Santa Cruz de La Palma, a city in Spain's Canary Islands, were killed and three others injured Sunday when a lifeboat plunged into the water during an evacuation drill, the emergency management office said. continue reading »
Corruption Allegations Force Rajoy to Release Income Statements
February 9, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who faces allegations he received under-the-table payments from a purported Popular Party slush fund, on Saturday released income statements that show he received net income for his work of 74,912 euros (roughly $100,100) last year. continue reading »
Anarchists Claim Responsibility for Attempted Cathedral Bombing in Spain
February 9, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
An anarchist group has claimed responsibility for a thwarted attempt to set off a bomb at Madrid's La Almudena Cathedral, Spanish police sources told Efe Friday. continue reading »
Spain Apprehends Moroccan Terror Suspect
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
An Islamist militant from Morocco was arrested in the eastern city of Valencia on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks in Spain and other European countries, the Spanish Interior Ministry said Friday. continue reading »
Police Dismantle Bomb at Cathedral in Madrid
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Sappers successfully dismantled a bomb discovered Thursday next to a confessional inside Madrid's La Almudena Cathedral, Spanish police said. continue reading »
Large Scale EuroVegas Casino Coming to Madrid
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Madrid suburb of Alcorcon has been chosen as the site of the large-scale EuroVegas casino and resort project, Las Vegas Sands Corp. President and COO Michael Leven and Community of Madrid President Ignacio Gonzalez announced here Friday. continue reading »
Spanish AG Sees Ground for Probe of Governing-party Finances
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Spain's attorney general said Thursday there are grounds for further investigating allegations of under-the table payments to high-ranking members of the ruling conservative Popular Party. continue reading »
More than 4.5 Tons of Cocaine Seized by Authorities in Eastern Spain
February 7, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
More than 4.5 tons of Colombian cocaine worth $327 million were seized in eastern Spain in the largest drug bust in the country since 2001, the Civil Guard said Wednesday. continue reading »
London Museum Displays Murillo Art Collection
February 6, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A collection of the works of Spanish artist Bartolome Esteban Murillo, who fascinated Britons in the 19th century, when his work first caught the eye of collectors, is on exhibit in London. continue reading »
Cervantes Institute Wants Spanish Language to Go Global
February 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The head of the Cervantes Institute, Victor Garcia de la Concha, defended here on Tuesday the need to cooperate with institutions inside and outside Spain to spread the Spanish language throughout the world. continue reading »
Honduran Mother Looking to Reunite with Daughter Pleads to Let Her Stay in Spain
February 2, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Wendy, a Honduran residing in Spain, had not seen her 5-year-old daughter for four years, and after waiting 29 hours for Spanish immigration authorities to let the girl leave Madrid-Barajas Airport, now hopes she can stay in the country. continue reading »
Rajoy Denies Receiving Under-the-Table Payments from PP
February 2, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Saturday denied allegations that he received secret cash payments from the ruling conservative Popular Party and said he will release his income statements next week to clear up any doubts. continue reading »
Spain Prime Minister Rajoy to Address Country on Corruption Allegations this Weekend
February 1, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will speak publicly Saturday about corruption allegations implicating the ruling conservative Popular Party's former treasurer and reports of alleged payments to party leaders from a slush fund. continue reading »
