Madrid- The Spanish public prosecutor's office Monday appealed against an unprecedented judicial investigation into the crimes committed by dictator Francisco Franco, who ruled the country from 1939 to 1975 after winning the 1936-39 civil war.
National Court judge Baltasar Garzon was not competent to investigate disappearances of Franco's opponents, which could only be handled by courts in the regions where they occurred, the prosecutors argued in the appeal lodged at the same court.
Madrid - People may marry for love, but divorce is about money, as Spain's deepening economic crisis is making clear.
This year's slowdown and the credit crunch affecting banks are cutting divorce rates, Madrid divorce lawyer Antonio Prada says, estimating the decrease at 30 per cent so far.
"It has become extremely difficult for couples wanting to divorce to sell their home at a reasonable price, and the crisis is also making it harder to maintain two separate households," Prada told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Madrid, Barcelona - Spanish police Thursday detained 18 people on charges of links with Islamist terrorism, including the 2004 Madrid train bombings, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.
Eight of the detainees were Moroccans, Rubalcaba said. Six are being held in the Barcelona area, one in Madrid and one in Algeciras on the southern coast.
Ten other people were also being questioned, Rubalcaba said, adding that some of them might be released.
Madrid - A judge at Spain's National Court on Thursday authorized the opening of a mass grave dating from the 1936-39 civil war and believed to contain the bones of poet Federico Garcia Lorca.
Judge Baltasar Garzon accepted a request from 22 associations to investigate disappearances of leftist republican victims of the war, which was won by right-wing General Francisco Franco, and victims of Franco's subsequent dictatorship that lasted until 1975.
Madrid- The Spanish public prosecutor's office Monday appealed against an unprecedented judicial investigation into the crimes committed by dictator Francisco Franco, who ruled the country from 1939 to 1975 after winning the 1936-39 civil war.
Madrid - People may marry for love, but divorce is about money, as Spain's deepening economic crisis is making clear.
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Madrid - A judge at Spain's National Court on Thursday authorized the opening of a mass grave dating from the 1936-39 civil war and believed to contain the bones of poet Federico Garcia Lorca.
