The Christmas season in Spain begins with the drawing of the numbers for the world's biggest lottery, El Gordo. This year, El Gordo (or The Fat One) paid out more than 2 billion to lucky ticket holders across Spain, with 18 million going to Rebollo

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MADRID, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Two former senior officials of Spain's ruling People's Party denied on Tuesday any wrong-doing in their testimony to a court concerning the accusations levelled against them in the ongoing corruption scandal. Former PP Tre

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The United States Friday suspended operations at its embassy in Libya after U.S. diplomatic personnel were airlifted out of the country. However, officials say diplomatic contacts with representatives of the Moammar Gadhafi government continue. 美国驻

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Embassy representatives in Washington, D.C., work regularly with lawmakers on Capitol Hill and U.S. officials at the State Department. 各国驻华盛顿使馆的代表定期跟美国国会议员和国务院官员一道工作。 Nearly four dozen of

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Americas embassies 美国大使馆 First, dig your moat 挖壕筑壑 Designing buildings for Americas diplomats is getting ever trickier 为美国外交官员设计建筑变得愈加棘手 Jul 30th 2011 | WASHINGTON, DC | from the print edition NOBOD

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Books and Arts; The Spanish civil war;Never forget; 文艺;西班牙内战;铭记于心; A dark time in history finally comes to light 一段黑暗史总将真相大白 In need of a truth commission 需要真相委員会 The Spanish Holocaust: Inqu

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How are you boys doing? We're good. 聊得怎么样,高兴极了 You think I'm fat? Take the Fifth. 你觉得我胖吗,别理他 Seriously, Phil, here, thinks I got fat with old age. 我说真的,菲尔说我是老来发福 Ah, you're a big man

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The Charge d'Affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Spain has criticized Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida for his comments defending Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine. Kishida said in an interview with Sp

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PARIS, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- France will close its embassy in Yemen on Sunday and Monday over security concerns, media reports quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying on Saturday. It came after Britain and Germany took the same decision. The Unite

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Spanish police say they have dismantled a nationwide network that illegally regularised the working status of Chinese immigrants in Spain. 据西班牙警方表示,他们已经捣毁了一个全国性的非法移民网络,该网络主要非法偷渡

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U.S. President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor says a threat from an al-Qaida affiliate led to the closure of the American embassy in Yemen. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports this same group has been linked to the attempted Christmas Day bombi

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London embassies 伦敦大使馆 Envoy envy 招人嫉妒的大使馆 Embassies in London are worth a lot of money 伦敦的大使馆价值不菲 IN 2009 America sold its embassy in fashionable Grosvenor Square for a reported £500m ($800m) to Qatar'

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The founder of Corona beer has left 2 million pounds ($3.3 million) to every single resident of the impoverished Spanish village he grew up in, sparking jubilant celebrations. 科罗娜啤酒创始人为他的出生地、西班牙一个贫困的村子里

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You know that feeling youve just had lunch, its several hours since you got up and its even longer until youll get back into bed, but you could just do with a bit of shut eye. 你知道那种感觉吗你刚刚享用完午餐,距你起床已经过了几

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A young member of the Spanish royal family has been accused of racially abusing a staff member at a theme park in Madrid, after being told that he was not allowed to jump the queue for a ride. 西班牙王室中的一名年轻成员因在马德里游乐

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TEHRAN, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Iranian officials said on Tuesday that foreign elements were behind the blasts that targeted Iran' s embassy in Lebanon's capital Beirut in the morning. In a telephone conversation with his Lebanese counterpart Michel Sule

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巴勒斯坦驻布拉格使馆被发现12把冲锋枪和手枪 PRAGUE, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Czech police have found 12 weapons, including pistols and submachine guns at the Palestinian embassy in Prague after a blast killed its ambassador on Wednesday,

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On July 23, Spain has raised the minimum age for marriage from 14 to 16. 当地时间7月23日,西班牙将最低婚龄从14岁提升至16岁。 The legislation follows continued pressure from child protection groups and United Nations experts, who

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Spain's economy 西班牙经济 The worst may be over 最糟的情况即将结束 Mariano Rajoy predicts economic joy, but Spain still has a long way to go 马里亚诺拉霍伊预测经济形势可喜,但是西班牙仍然任重道远。 THE Prado

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Made in Spain 西班牙制造 A pressing issue 迫在眉睫 The government frets about foreign hands on the nation's olive-presses 外国人插手本国橄榄油产业让政府很不安 These are Spanish, not Italian 这些是产自西班牙的橄榄,

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