Four die in powerful gas leak blast in Madrid
The toll from a powerful explosion caused by a gas leak that gutted a building in a residential part of ...
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Davis Cup Finals lengthened to reduce burden on players
Paris—The Davis Cup Finals will be expanded to an 11-day event starting this year, and could be held across three ...
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Big freeze complicates snow-clearing efforts in Spain
Extremely low temperatures, in some areas reaching record-breaking levels, swept central and eastern Spain on Tuesday, with the big freeze ...
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Madrid police, partygoers play pandemic cat-and-mouse
By Hazel Ward Madrid, Spain"•“If you don’t open the door, we’ll break it down,” shouts a policeman, sparks flying through ...
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Small Spanish companies struggling amid COVID
Madrid, Spain"•Isabel has closed her Madrid bar and sent two workers home; Miguel’s shoe shop has lost older customers: In ...
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First Spanish beaches to reopen as lockdown eases
Coronavirus lockdown measures will finally be eased for people in Madrid and Barcelona from Monday, while elsewhere in Spain the ...
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New virus deaths in Spain fall to two-month low under 100
Spain on Sunday reported 87 coronavirus deaths over a 24-hour period, the first time in two months that the daily ...
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Spanish virus lockdown prolonged as toll tops 20,0 00
Madrid—Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday announced the nationwide coronavirus lockdown would be extended two weeks to May 9, ...
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UN climate talks stagger toward ’mediocre’ result
Madrid"•A UN climate summit in Madrid stumbled towards the finish line Sunday after marathon talks between countries exposed deeper divides ...
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U.N. talks deadlocked, detached from climate emergency
By Marlowe Hood and Patrick Galey United Nations climate negotiations were deadlocked deep into overtime and through the night, with even ...
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