Madrid - A former Spanish senior official Wednesday admitted that the former conservative government allowed US flights transporting terrorist suspects to make stopovers in Spain, but denied that stopovers actually took place, judicial sources said.
National Court judge Ismael Moreno questioned Miguel Aguirre de Carcer in the framework of his investigation into alleged flights of the US Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) via Spain between 2002 and 2005.
Madrid - Spain's National Court on Wednesday acquitted two journalists and a caricaturist of insulting King Juan Carlos by alleging that he had chased a drunken bear in Russia.
Two of the accused created a photomontage published in 2006 by the Basque newspaper Deia, which showed a drunken-looking Juan Carlos with an equally drunken bear leaning on a wine barrel.
The tame bear had been given vodka to make it easier for the king to shoot it, the caricature claimed in a reference to unconfirmed press reports quoting Russian sources.
The third accused called the king "irresponsible" in an article on the bear chase.
Palma de Majorca, Spain - Spanish police have detained three people in connection with the partial collapse of a hotel on the holiday island of Majorca, where four construction workers were killed in the accident, police said Wednesday.
The detainees included an architect, an overseer and a project chief. Police said they could be charged with homicide and with violating workers' rights.
Officials earlier said the company carrying out the repairs did not have a licence and had been ordered to stop the work on the hotel Son Moll in Cala Ratjada in the north-east of the island.
Madrid - Spanish giants Sevilla announced on Tuesday evening the extension of the contract of Adriano until 2014.
The original contract of the Brazilian wing-back was due to expire in 2012.
Adriano (full name: Adriano Correia Claro) has become one of Sevilla's most important players in the past four seasons - he joined the Seville club from Coritiba in 2004 - with his powerful surges down the left.
He is still only 24, and Sevilla are convinced that he has a bright future.
Madrid - Spain on Tuesday lent cautious support to Morocco's proposal of an autonomy to Western Sahara in the search of a solution to the three-decade conflict pitting Morocco and the Saharawi independence movement Polisario Front.
The proposal to grant the region autonomy instead of independence was a "positive contribution" to negotiations towards a "fair, lasting and mutually acceptable peaceful solution that respects the principle of self-determination," Spain and Morocco said in a joint declaration issued after a summit in Madrid.
Madrid - A former Spanish senior official Wednesday admitted that the former conservative government allowed US flights transporting terrorist suspects to make stopovers in Spain, but denied that stopovers actually took place, judicial sources said.
Madrid- The US embassy in Madrid was cordoned off temporarily Wednesday after
Palma de Majorca, Spain - Spanish police have detained three people in connection with the partial collapse of a hotel on the holiday island of Majorca, where four construction workers were killed in the accident, police said Wednesday.
Madrid - Spanish giants Sevilla announced on Tuesday evening the extension of the contract of Adriano until 2014.
Madrid - Spain on Tuesday lent cautious support to Morocco's proposal of an autonomy to Western Sahara in the search of a solution to the three-decade conflict pitting Morocco and the Saharawi independence movement Polisario Front.
