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No more homework! Spanish parents go on strike INTERNATIONAL

No more homework! Spanish parents go on strike

Children have long complained about homework but parents in Spain are now joining in and have decided to go on strike against their offspring's school load for the whole month of November.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Migrants stage rooftop protest in Madrid INTERNATIONAL

Migrants stage rooftop protest in Madrid

Dozens of migrants were staging a protest at a detention centre in Madrid on Wednesday after climbing onto the building's roof and smashing furniture, police said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
More than 70 injured in Spanish cafe gas explosion INTERNATIONAL

More than 70 injured in Spanish cafe gas explosion

At least 77 people were injured late Saturday in a gas explosion at a cafe in southern Spain, local media reported.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Five arrested in Europe on suspicion of forming IS cell INTERNATIONAL

Five arrested in Europe on suspicion of forming IS cell

Police have arrested five suspected members of an Islamic State cell in Spain, Belgium and Germany that spread propaganda for the group online, the Spanish interior ministry said on Wednesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Spanish court reopens fraud investigation against Neymar CULTURE

Spanish court reopens fraud investigation against Neymar

Spain's High Court said on Friday it had reopened a fraud and corruption investigation into Brazilian soccer player Neymar over his transfer to Barcelona from Santos, after an appeal by the public prosecutor.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Speeding 'most likely' caused Spanish train crash INTERNATIONAL

Speeding 'most likely' caused Spanish train crash

Excessive speed is the most likely cause of a train crash in northwestern Spain which killed four people, the mayor of the local town suggested on Saturday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
At least 4 dead as train derails in Spain INTERNATIONAL

At least 4 dead as train derails in Spain

At least four people died and around 50 were injured on Friday when a train came off the tracks in northwestern Spain on its way to Portugal, just as it was approaching a station

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Arsonists blamed for Spanish wildfires INTERNATIONAL

Arsonists blamed for Spanish wildfires

Spanish authorities on Tuesday blamed arsonists and record temperatures for wildfires ravaging the eastern coast near the popular resort of Benidorm that have forced 1,400 people to flee.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Madrid city demands 18.4 million euros from Real Madrid CULTURE

Madrid city demands 18.4 million euros from Real Madrid

The Madrid city government said Monday it will pursue Real Madrid for 18.4 million euros ($20.6 million) in illegal state aid that the European Commission ordered the club to repay.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Spain balcony-jumping craze: most are drunk Brits, study finds INTERNATIONAL

Spain balcony-jumping craze: most are drunk Brits, study finds

They're young, on holiday, drunk and sometimes high, and they decide to jump from their hotel or apartment balcony into the pool. But some miss and end up in hospital... or worse, dead.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Tiny Spanish publisher clones world's most mysterious book INTERNATIONAL

Tiny Spanish publisher clones world's most mysterious book

It's one of the world's most mysterious books, a centuries-old manuscript written in an unknown or coded language that no one -- not even the best cryptographers -- has cracked.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Police in Europe seize 1,000 kg of drugs, arrest gang members INTERNATIONAL

Police in Europe seize 1,000 kg of drugs, arrest gang members

Police have seized more than 1,000 kg of hashish and arrested 23 people in a joint operation in Spain, Poland, Denmark and France targeting a drug smuggling gang, Polish and Spanish police said on Friday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016