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Garbage piles up at Madrid airport as cleaning staff strikes
Garbage piled up at Madrid’s Barajas airport, one of Europe’s busiest, on Monday due to a strike by cleaning staff over salary cuts and job losses. Papers, empty plastic bottles and drinks cans littered the floor of the airport, Europe’s fourth-busiest by passenger numbers, with 45 million passengers last year.…
Sixty people injured in riot at Madrid music festival
Sixty people were injured and 11 arrested when hundreds of youths hurled bottles and burned bins in clashes with police outside a music festival in Madrid on Saturday, officials said. Youths rioted when they were turned away from the MTV Madrid Beach open air festival in western Madrid early on…
Hemingway cafe in Madrid saved from near-certain closure
Madrid’s iconic Cafe Gijon, whose past clients include Ernest Hemingway and Salvador Dali, has won a last-minute reprieve from near certain closure. The cafe had warned it would have to draw the curtain on its 120-year history after Madrid’s cash-strapped City Hall granted the licence to its lucrative terrace to…
Solar-powered plane attempts first intercontinental flight
MADRID — A Swiss adventurer aims to make the world’s first intercontinental flight in a solar-powered plane Tuesday, taking off from Madrid shortly before dawn on a daring trip to Rabat. Bernard Piccard, 54-year-old psychiatrist and balloonist, is to pilot the Solar Impulse plane, a giant as big as an…
Spanish police clears ‘indignants’ from Madrid’s square
MADRID — Spanish police arrested 18 people early on Sunday as they cleared out Madrid’s central square of “indignant” activists who had spent the night as part of demonstrations to mark a year since the start of a global protest movement. The police moved in on the Puerta del Sol…
Art exhibit of kinky nuns, tattooed Christ, sparks protests in Spain
Catholics and conservatives have denounced as blasphemous two recent exhibitions in Madrid featuring kinky nuns in lingerie and tattooed and near-naked Christs. Catholic group AES called a demonstration for Friday evening outside the Fresh Gallery in Madrid against its latest exhibition: “Obscenity”, a collection of photographs by Canadian artist Bruce…
From cannabis beer to seeds, Spanish fair has it all
MADRID — Aitor Hernandez has been looking to buy a new glass pipe to smoke cannabis since June but waited for an annual cannabis fair which got underway Friday near Madrid to make his choice. “You can see all the types of pipes that exist, the newest styles, in one…
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