MADRID (AFP) - (AFP) - Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez told visiting Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas Tuesday that Madrid backs efforts to create an independent Palestinian state, the government said.
Abbas met with Jimenez and Spain's King Juan Carlos at the start of a two-day visit to the country aimed at drumming up support for United Nations recognition of a Palestin [...]
MADRID (AFP) - (AFP) - Spanish police said Friday they have frozen more than 30 million euros in bank accounts and properties valued at 10 million after arresting a close associate of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on fraud charges.
Hussein Salem, detained along with his son and a suspected frontman, was accused of money laundering, fraud, bribery and corruption, police sai [...]
MADRID (AFP) - Spanish police halted the illegal export of nine Bell-112 military transport helicopters to Iran and detained eight people including three Iranians, they said Thursday.
Police seized the US-made helicopters and arrested five Spanish businessmen suspected of trying to export them along with three Iranians accused of negotiating the purchase of military materiel.
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MADRID (AFP) - Spain and Qatar signed four agreements on Tuesday, including one regarding air transport, during a visit by the emir of the oil-rich state to Madrid aimed at boosting economic ties.
The two nations are "working together to sign other important contracts in the coming months," the Spanish government said in a statement following talks between Spanish Prime Minister Jos [...]
MADRID (AFP) - The emir of Qatar arrived in Madrid on Monday on a visit to boost economic ties between the oil-rich Gulf state and Spain, which is seeking new investments to shore up its battered economy.
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and his wife, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, lunched with King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia at the royal palace of Zarazuela outside Madrid [...]
MADRID (AFP) - The emir of Qatar arrived in Madrid on Monday on a visit to boost economic ties between the oil-rich Gulf state and Spain, which is seeking new investments to shore up its battered economy.
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and his wife, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, lunched with King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia at the royal palace of Zarazuela outside Madrid [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Royal Emirates Group, which is chaired by a member of Dubai's ruling Al-Maktoum family, announced on Thursday it has signed a deal to buy struggling Spanish La Liga football club Getafe.
The group's managing director Kaiser Rafiq told a news conference in Dubai it has agreed to buy 100 percent of the club for "between 70 and 90 million euros" (101 and 130 million dolla [...]
DOHA (AFP) - Qatar striker Hussein Yasser says his team cannot be written off despite losing their opening Asian Cup match, citing the example of eventual winners Spain at the World Cup in South Africa.
The host nation allowed the pressure to get the better of them on Friday when they crashed 2-0 to Uzbekistan.
Yasser, one of his country's best-known players, who once had a stint with th [...]
MADRID (AFP) - A Spanish judge will probe a raid by Iraqi police and soldiers on a camp for Iranian refugees in July 2009 that killed 11 people, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said Tuesday.
A Spanish National Court ruling in favour of the investigation, which was issued December 27, became effective Tuesday following a five-day waiting period for possible appeals, said the lawyer for family [...]
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MADRID (AFP) - A Mediterranean Union summit planned for November 21 in Barcelona has been postponed again because the Middle East peace talks are "deadlocked", the Spanish government said Monday.
"Given the evidence that the deadlocked peace process in the Middle East would make a sat [...]
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