Police arrested six Nigerian nationals, including the suspected female ringleader, as part of an investigation launched last year after one of the prostitutes filed a complaint with the...
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- Oct 3, 2013
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Spain
After adopting the euro, the Spanish economy initially benefited from sharply lower interest rates, spurring a property bubble. However, with the onset of the global financial crisis, property prices collapsed, causing widespread layoffs, and pushing unemployment to more than 26 per cent by the end of 2012. Spain received a bank bailout from the European Central Bank in 2012.
10 May 2013
Spanish police have arrested six suspects, including one from Hong Kong, who allegedly laundered hundreds of thousands of euros a week in drug money. Officers exposed a network including two...
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19 Apr 2013
Spain's centre-right government, under pressure from the Catholic Church and its own ultraconservative wing, has vowed "promptly" to tighten the nation's abortion laws, angering the opposition...
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18 Apr 2013
Spain’s King Juan Carlos stood with a throng of smiling journalists and onlookers, exchanging pleasantries, laughing at jokes and even trying on a pair of sunglasses proffered by a reporter from a...
6:15PM
4 Apr 2013
Spain's Princess Cristina has been summoned to testify as a suspect in a corruption case, a judicial source said yesterday, dealing a blow to the prestige of the royal family including her father...
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27 Mar 2013
Europe’s top teams took important steps towards next year’s World Cup finals in Brazil with qualifying victories on Tuesday, notably world champions Spain who scored a hugely significant 1-0 win...
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Kenya's press called for reconciliation between the winners and losers in the country's presidential election, as calm prevailed a day after the results were declared, in striking contrast to the...
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Spain's government is aiding a cover-up of the mysterious death of one of Cuba's most respected opposition leaders, who died after an unmarked police car rammed the car he was travelling in,...
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A Spanish court freed a fugitive accountant wanted by Hong Kong over an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud despite an eleventh-hour intervention by Beijing, the Sunday Morning Post has learned.
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Spanish King Juan Carlos' son-in-law Inaki Urdangarin was questioned by a judge on the island of Majorca over allegations that he embezzled millions of euros of public money paid to Noos, a...
6:25AM
Hong Kong has regrettably lost a long-running battle in the Spanish courts to have a high-profile fugitive accountant sent back for trial in connection with an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud...
4:12AM
A fugitive accountant wanted over an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud has been freed from custody in Spain after that country's highest court called into question the independence of Hong Kong's...
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