News Archive for July 2014
Here you can find articles published in July 2014. Return to full archive here-
01 July
- Barcelona taxi drivers strike in new Uber protest
- Plastic chokes 88% of ocean surface: study
- 'Cannibal' drug sparks fears for Ibiza partygoers
- Suspect fingers ex-king in royal corruption case
- Half of Spaniards aged 25–29 live with parents
- Out-of-control firework injures 24 in Spain
- 'Find a job before you come to Spain'
- Dead Dutchman 'victim of rural terrorism'
- Stormy EU debut for Spain's 'indignant' MEP
- Nadal bundled out of Wimbledon by wildcard
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02 July
- Lobby group unveils plans for 'Catalan army'
- Summer jobs shrink Spanish unemployment
- Smashed: Pamplona bull run drug gangs
- Madrid Metro breakdown: Passengers walk tracks
- 'We will take Spain back': Syrian jihadists
- Spain's beachgoers face faecal matter health risk
- Belgian confesses to murder of Dane in Madrid
- Spanish king's sister appeals fraud charges
- Top 10 Spanish locations to film Game of Thrones
- Councillor arrested over brutal attack in Germany
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03 July
- High-speed train 'derails' on Madrid–Alicante line
- Mystery share warning sinks Spanish Wi-Fi firm
- Majorca bars slammed over sex-for-drinks deal
- Conchita Wurst opens Madrid Gay Pride
- Spanish soldier jailed on Iraq torture charges
- Twitter treasure hunters seek cash in Madrid park
- Cycling: Spain's best and worst cities for bikes
- No groping: Pamplona cleans up bull run fiesta
- 'King's brother-in-law stole funds': Accountant
- Freak train crash sees driver killed by own car
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04 July
- Exodus: Spain's summer traffic season kicks off
- Shoe time for Gay Pride: High heels race returns
- Spain needs higher taxes on alcohol: doctors
- Police seize four planes in mega-hash bust
- Wild weather: Floods hit Spain's Navarre region
- 10,000 sign up to be Game of Thrones extras
- Animal lovers fight 'cruel' put-down rule for strays
- Spanish mum kills teacher in front of class
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07 July
- 20 injured as migrants fight near Spain border
- Four injured in first 2014 Pamplona bull run
- Broke Wi-Fi provider admits to cooking books
- Airbnb fined €30,000 over 'illegal' apartments
- Tunnel vision: Madrid set for space-age Metro ads
- VIDEO: Landing aborted in Barcelona 'near miss'
- Barcelona drug suspects 'offered missiles for sale'
- History fail: Paper runs WWI satire story as fact
- Mobile app to help Spain's migrants find feet
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08 July
- Real Madrid legend Alfredo di Stéfano dies
- Teen tourist killed on Benidorm rollercoaster
- Italian mafia crackdown: Spanish police arrest 26
- Spain's graduates 'not workplace ready': OECD
- Spanish hospital sends bill to dead woman
- Police lock down town over 'war on thieves'
- Political parties slammed over lack of transparency
- Majorca 'sex contests' not police matter: Spain
- Air traffic controllers 'sorry' over near miss
- Brit seriously injured in Pamplona bull run
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09 July
- 'Fortress' Spain causing 'misery' for migrants
- Madrid targets Unesco listing for Prado Museum
- 'Catalonia is a matter for Spain': New EU president
- Spain's teens failing in financial literacy stakes
- Fears over markets in Spain after Gowex folds
- 'I used to read books to avoid seeing the bulls'
- 'Don't limit tourist visits to Barcelona market'
- Researchers close in on new anti-HIV gel
- Pamplona 'survival guide' author gored by bull
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10 July
- Earthquake rattles parts of southern Spain
- Spanish naturist paradise bans nudity by mistake
- Scottish teen seriously injured in Majorca fall
- Spain to ban sale of cats and dogs in pet shops
- Catalonia to push ahead with burqa ban plans
- Rat cuts off power to 12,000 people in Madrid
- IMF doubles 2014 growth forecast for Spain
- Foul play: sportswomen slam 'sexist' bikini rule
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11 July
- Spain's battered socialist party seeks new leader
- Police arrest Barcelona cannabis club bosses
- Confirmed: Spain's inflation hit zero in June
- Mafia boss claims links to 'corrupt' treasurer
- Civil war bomb stuck in pine tree for 75 years
- Magaluf cracks down on wild pub crawls
- EU investigates Valencia over 'false' debt figures
- Official: Barça sign Luis Suarez for five years
- Risky business: Man snaps bull run selfie
- Spain passes watered down 'anti-protest' law
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14 July
- Spain's Socialists pin hopes on new leader
- Heatwave hits southern and central Spain
- 89-year-old killed in horror wasp attack
- Hitler's Spanish fighter planes go on sale in US
- Night on the town: New king defies protocol
- Top pics from Spain's Running of the Bulls 2014
- Disgraced tech boss hit with €600,000 bail bill
- 'Lady Di' refuge up for sale in Majorca
- Tearful Contador crashes out of Tour de France
- Finland to house sub-zero Sagrada Familia
- Germany steps up hunt for Spanish workers
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15 July
- Spain's new king makes first Morocco visit
- Horror return: missing home shocks pensioner
- Madrid police to trial 'hidden' shoulder cams
- Spain's Socialists snub EU 'austerity' candidate
- Neo-Nazi gang extorts neighbour to pay lawyer
- Lifeguards find 'drowned' swimmer at local bar
- Malaga counts cost of 'Hidden Cash' chaos
- Judge forces woman to apologize on Twitter
- US fraudster who stole $1.8m arrested in Spain
- Madrid couple defy Italy's gay marriage ban
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16 July
- Barcelona beaches reopened after shark alert
- Pic of the day: Islanders take saint for a splash
- Barcelona police crack down on Uber drivers
- Military stabs Spanish swordsmiths in the back
- US tourist charged over Pamplona punch
- Man 'starves' 92-year-old grandmother to death
- 'North Africans are sponging off us': mayor
- Top Ten: Summer music festivals in Spain 2014
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17 July
- Economy minister left hanging over top EU post
- Neo-nazi 'not sorry' over 'blood bath' speech
- German World Cup hero Kroos joins Real Madrid
- Tycoon turned drug lord sells €30m mansion
- Madrid police arrest UK gangland murder suspect
- UK tourists torch Magaluf building in failed prank
- Tomatina festival tainted by corruption rumours
- This man has the biggest tax bill in Spain
- Spanish war ship stirs up Gibraltar tensions
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18 July
- Spain calls for answers on Malaysian jet crash
- Oil spill chokes Canary coastal paradise
- Women can't fight fires: Spain's gaffe queen
- Spain breaks up global people smuggling ring
- Tenerife water park named world's best
- Spain calls in UK envoy in navy ship spat
- Uber takes on taxi drivers with free ice cream
- Spaniards named biggest tech addicts in Europe
- Temperatures set to plummet across Spain
- Merkel snubs Catalonia's independence plans
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22 July
- Spain's Prado museum 'loses' 885 artworks
- Spain loses €12 billion in sale of 'failed' bank
- Ancient graffiti proves Spain's Irish links
- Brit feared paralyzed after Ibiza pool accident
- It's a date: Spanish PM to meet with Catalan leader
- Brits help Spain set new tourism record
- Real Madrid sign World Cup star Rodríguez
- 'Spain needs to drill for oil off the Canaries'
- 'Madrid is like a zombie movie in summer'
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23 July
- Spanish airlines suspend Tel Aviv flights
- Eight dead in horror road smash near Alicante
- Named: Spain's most respected celebrity
- Top officials cut costs by driving 'mafia' cars
- Brains behind 'ghost airport' jailed for 4 years
- Spanish village turns horses into garbage men
- Injured Contador pulls out of Spain's Vuelta
- Slow but steady: Spain's economy keeps growing
- Top ten 'English' words made in Spain: Part 2
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24 July
- 53 freed drug suspects sent back to prison
- 402,000 Spaniards find work in three months
- 'A divided Spain will weaken EU': French PM
- Madrid train evacuated after brakes catch fire
- 'Being an au pair in Spain can be really tough'
- Robots could take half of jobs in Spain
- WWF calls for Canary Islands whale sanctuary
- Missing Air Algérie flight 'has crashed': Reports
- Fraudster gets more jail time than murderers
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25 July
- Gaza crisis: Spaniards stage anti-Israel protest
- Santiago train driver apologizes one year on
- Moroccan youths stone Spanish paedophile
- Spain's new royals spend big on airplane food
- Air Algérie plane was not shot down: France
- Magaluf 'oral sex' bar shut down
- Seville cracks down on noisy domino players
- Five things you need to know about Swiftair
- Spaniards more positive on jobs growth: Poll
- 26 July
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28 July
- 'Leave Libya now': Spain warns nationals
- Spain's flamenco priest wins new fans for church
- Spain's 'most stupid driver' gets 6 months jail
- Child minding chores make grandparents sick
- 'We're going to occupy Gibraltar': radical union
- Spain’s new king opens royal account books
- Million-year-old tools unearthed in Spain
- Spain's bad bank sees profits surge
- Train strike to sting Spain's holidaymakers
- Spain's gays biggest target of hate crimes
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29 July
- New opposition leader calls for federal Spain
- Judge refuses to drop Messi tax fraud case
- France wages 'peach war' on Spanish imports
- Ex-minister jailed on corruption charges
- 'Jews aren't made to coexist': Spanish writer
- Spaniards score high in beach topless ratings
- Spanish house prices to climb in 2016: S&P
- Bullish Spain bumps up growth forecasts
- Spanish town fights 'Fifty Shades' bondage hotel
- Spanish police arrest 84 'Nigerian' scammers
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30 July
- Scandal-hit ex-Catalan boss stripped of pension
- Spain grows 0.6 percent in second quarter
- US family finds sunken Spanish treasure, again
- Spaniards ready to give ground on Catalonia: Poll
- Gibraltar slams Spain's plan to end border chaos
- Spanish film stars slam Gaza 'genocide'
- Game of Thrones scam nets fraudsters €100,000
- 'Independence vote will go ahead': Catalan boss
- Top 10 characters you'll meet in Spain's hostels
- Orlando Bloom 'punches' Justin Bieber in Ibiza
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31 July
- Pinterest gobbles up hot Barcelona start-up
- 513 trains cancelled in national rail strike
- Spanish climber dies on 'world's deadliest peak'
- Santander profits jump nearly 40 percent
- Spain pulls diplomatic staff out of Libya
- At last: Malaga metro up and running
- Top ten Spanish covers of English songs
- Police arrest man who starved 9 horses to death
- UN urges Spain to move dead dictator's body