News Archive for March 2014
Here you can find articles published in March 2014. Return to full archive here- 01 March
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03 March
- Syrian terror group frees Spanish journalist
- African smuggled into Spain in suitcase
- 'Spain could be a world leader in solar power'
- 'Let migrants in, like Sweden did with Nazis'
- Barcelona pickpocket gang busted by police
- Masked protesters mar key economy summit
- Oscars fail: Spanish star in identity mix-up
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04 March
- Jews jump at chance of Spanish citizenship offer
- Jobs ministry trumpets 'strong' monthly figures
- Trojan Horse thieves 'major threat to Europe'
- 'Ukraine crisis won't affect Spain's gas supply'
- Huge assault on Spanish border 'biggest ever'
- 'I meant no harm': Man who threw kids in well
- How Barcelona is getting it wrong on cannabis
- Spaniards unearth stunning pharonic tomb
- Ryanair sacks staffer for eating sandwich
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05 March
- Ukraine crisis talks in Madrid 'useful': EU
- One in five Spanish women victim of assault
- Popular download site pulls plug on free movies
- Pensioners face charges over cannabis cake
- Spanish teacher in UK 'taped kids' mouths'
- Russia must respect Ukraine borders: Spain
- Nazi gets Spain's first Islamophobia jail term
- In pictures: Wild storm wreaks havoc in Spain
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06 March
- Spain doesn't believe PM on recovery claims: Poll
- Spain beefs up borders in migrant crisis
- Businessmen baffled by mystery Dear Santa note
- Video of brutal beating of teen girl shocks Spain
- Mother who froze her babies faces 40 years
- Rising seas could drown Spanish cathedral
- Record hangover:10,000 bars close in 2013
- Map fail: News show puts Germany in wrong spot
- Migration crisis a 'state of emergency': Spain
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07 March
- Seach for oil threatens marine wonderlands
- Smugglers stuff skis with 14kg of cocaine
- Scientists discover why some of us 'hate' music
- 'Job interview left me with crushed vertebra'
- Pro-choicers stage daring Barcelona church protest
- 'UK exit from EU would be disaster for Gibraltar'
- Nine amazing women who have shaped Spain
- 08 March
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10 March
- Artists make noise to protest funding cuts
- Two dead, six missing in shipwreck drama
- Spain's Freemasons show faces for first time
- Firing rubber bullets was wrong: Minister
- 'I'll be slave to ex-wife' broke dad tells court
- Swiss tourist killed in Canary bus crash
- Wind energy chief slams 'disastrous' Spain
- Dad fined for hitting son who didn't do homework
- U2 singer Bono tells EU to 'buy Spanish'
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11 March
- 'The fear is always there': Madrid terror survivor
- US to boost troop presence in Spain
- Spanish 'supernanny' to care for UK's baby prince
- Spanish-made solar telescope world's biggest
- Two tonnes of hashish found on Spanish beach
- Gordon Ramsay to help struggling Costa chefs
- Obama calls Spanish PM to discuss Ukraine crisis
- Nude sailors strip in bid for Olympics glory
- A to Z of The Local's picture galleries
- 'Sexist' aprons stun Women's Day fun runners
- 'Spain faces 30,000 backstreet abortions'
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12 March
- Spain mourns victims of 2004 Madrid terror attack
- Poor immigrants targeted in illegal organ sale
- Spain's economic expats want to go home: Study
- Language police slam 'English' Eurovision song
- Kidnapped Barcelona girl found in Amazon forest
- Dead mother clocks up speeding fines
- Pic of the day: Spain from 400km above Earth
- Spanish mums too underfed to breastfeed
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13 March
- Spanish region ramps up search for Franco victims
- Catholics hiding church's Islamic past: critics
- Simpsonized: Barça stars get cartoon treatment
- New 'fat' gene to help in fight against obesity
- Top Ten: Spain's coolest hotels 2014
- 576,900 jobseekers in Spain have never worked
- Amazon to open logistics hub in Spain: Reports
- Spanish PM turns down free English course
- 'I had parents' blessing': Rainforest kidnapper
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14 March
- Spaniard gets pneumonia from e-cigarette abuse
- Ferrari to open €100m theme park in Spain
- Spain's rich–poor divide fastest growing in Europe
- British Mata Hari spied for Germany in Spain
- Police break up terror cell with Syria links
- Spanish city honours El Greco 400 years on
- Spanish public debt hits new record in 2013
- Spanish police 'strip' to protest work conditions
- Iberia staffers agree to pay cut to end dispute
- Welcome to Spain's most exclusive restaurant
- 'Terror cell was biggest and most active in Spain'
- 15 March
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17 March
- Madrid train bombings middleman deported
- UK's Vodafone pays $10b for Spanish firm Ono
- Kidnapped girl home after Amazon ordeal
- Spain remains hotspot for bargain properties
- Pic of the day: Merkel piggybacks Spain's PM
- Boris Becker loses Spain home over unpaid bills
- Murder case against US soldiers not over: Judge
- UK slashes passport costs for Spain expats
- Ten jobs that you can only do in Spain
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18 March
- Solider sacked for party celebrating failed coup
- Man dies while taking selfie on top of train
- Police arrest 42 in war on toxic 'shabu' drug
- Crimea and Catalonia 'the same': Foreign Minister
- Spain expat blogs 2014: Six of the best
- Economy to grow for 3rd straight quarter: Minister
- In pictures: Madrid Zoo greets new baby gorilla
- 500 immigrants storm borders to enter Spain
- Spanish beach in Trip Advisor world top ten
- Spain's rich virtually unscathed by crisis
- Ronaldo double seals Real's place in last eight
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19 March
- Penélope Cruz gets comic book makeover
- Spain becomes world's biggest wine producer
- Inditex profits slip amid global expansion push
- 60 percent of Catalans want own state: Poll
- Spain sends riot police to African borders
- Blind athlete saves blind dog from death
- Spanish politician strips for role in gay film
- 'They gave me C-section without anaesthesia'
- Quake rattles coast of Spain's Catalonia region
- 'Judge must drop murder case against US troops'
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20 March
- China's richest man bids for Madrid landmark
- Four missing after army helicopter explodes
- Cop caught swapping gun for hard drugs
- Facebook campaign for sick baby pays off
- Valencia goes up in flames for Las Fallas
- Justice Minister sells Spain to US Jews
- 600,000 Spaniards head overseas to flee crisis
- Tiny Canary hatches green energy plans
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21 March
- Franco's grandson faces court over police chase
- 'World's best mayor' loses battle with cancer
- Meningitis case threatens cramped migrant centre
- Pic of the day: Canary Islands 'swimming' in sea
- Death close for Spain's first post-Franco PM
- Parents whip boy over poor school grades
- Booming Canaries fuel winter tourism bonanza
- 'Energy giants out to kill off Spain's solar sector'
- Grieving grandma injured after falling into grave
- 22 March
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24 March
- Spain's first post-dictatorship PM dies
- Barça clinch epic Clásico decider
- Spanish mayor 'used cop as personal car washer'
- Spaniard strips in front of Italian masterpiece
- Hundreds honour Spain's 'father of democracy'
- Protester loses testicle in rubber bullet attack
- Femen attack pro-life demo disguised as death
- Madrid airport renamed after Spain's late PM
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25 March
- Bouncer banned for barring transsexuals
- Nearly half of Spaniards never do any exercise
- Protester accused of attempted murder of cop
- 30,000 file past coffin of first democratic PM
- Video: Spaniards score World Press Prize
- Spain cracks down on deadly Latin crime gangs
- Six reasons why Suárez is Spain's best loved PM
- Spain's hottest jobs 2014
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26 March
- 'Catalonia independence vote is illegal': judges
- Spanish scientists build Mars on Earth
- Fire tragedy claims four young siblings
- Shakira slammed for singing in Catalan
- Spanish police rescue 180 smuggled puppies
- Serial texter suffers first case of 'WhatsAppitis'
- 580,000 Spanish kids glued to TV after bedtime
- Spaniards crowned European road rage kings
- Fifty youths arrested in rowdy uni demo
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27 March
- Central bank offers brighter outlook for Spain
- Spanish children rescued from Bolivian drug lords
- Santander fined €15m for misleading customers
- Madrid Mayor wants city centre 'no protest' zone
- Costa Blanca expats triple pre-crisis home-buying
- British comic Eddie Izzard to take on Madrid
- 'Spain can send the tanks in, Catalans will still vote'
- Spain's students strike against education cuts
- Panic over: 'Crashed plane' was tug boat
- Ferrari owner crashes €240k car, then flees
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28 March
- Generation lost: Spain's kids 2nd poorest in EU
- Sex doll protest blows up Spain's abortion debate
- €2.4 billion bailout for Spain's 'ghost' roads
- 'Radicals want to ruin Spain's democracy'
- 184 Spaniards a day kicked out of their homes
- 'Freedom! Spain!' shout 800 migrants at border
- 'Ban dubbing! Spaniards will have to get used to it'
- Barcelona gets Europe's first '3D printer café'
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31 March
- Kidnapped journalists reunited with families
- Catalans join forces with EU separatists
- Lovemaking lands woman at bottom of well
- Jobless Spaniards to be kicked out of Germany
- VIDEO: Riot cops hit reporters at Madrid demo
- Crowds swamp church after 'Holy Grail' claim
- Spanish doctors call for 'bad' patients to be fined