World & Nation
Spaniards generally have two last names, one from the mother and one from the father.
April 17, 2004
Spain will legalize gay unions, although it may not call them marriages, Prime Minister-designate Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said.
March 19, 2004
The last group of Spanish soldiers who took part in the U.S.
April 29, 2004
Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled the streets of Madrid, the capital, to demand a tougher government policy toward Basque separatists.
March 11, 2007
Thousands of protesters accused Spain’s prime minister-designate of being “the president of Al Qaeda” in demonstrations Wednesday to support the defeated party of outgoing leader Jose Maria Aznar.
March 18, 2004
Hundred of thousands of people, including relatives of those killed or wounded by Basque separatists’ bomb attacks, packed the streets of Madrid to protest a government offer to hold talks with the armed group ETA if it renounces violence.
June 5, 2005
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero paid his first visit abroad, traveling to neighboring Morocco to put a symbolic stamp on a new era of relations, with stronger cooperation against terrorism.
April 25, 2004
The opposition Socialist Party elected a young politician who has been compared to Britain’s Tony Blair as their new leader, four months after a stinging electoral defeat.
July 23, 2000
Testifying before a parliamentary committee, Spain’s prime minister said his predecessor’s government had erased computer records after the March 11 train bombings, when officials were blaming Basque separatists despite mounting evidence of a link to Islamic extremists.
Dec. 14, 2004
All the Rage
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Sept. 30, 2009