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Citizenship Has Its Privileges. The ME Madrid Reina Victoria hotel is inviting American tourists to visit, with a "ME wants YOU in Madrid" package. Provide your U.S. passport and book three nights, and you'll get 20% off room rates, a bottle of cava (that's Spanish champagne) and strawberries in the room, 50% off dinner for two at the hotel's Midnight Rose restaurant, and complimentary breakfast. Offer extended though March 2009. Plaza de Santa Ana 14, Madrid, Spain...
...saying goes, though, you've gotta be in it to win it, and an estimated 32 million people will be in it this year as the San Ildefenso children draw numbers from large gold drums in the Grand Salon of the Spanish National Lottery in Madrid. One of the drums contains thousands of wooden balls each with a unique ticket number. The smaller vessel contains 1,787 balls displaying a cash amount. Waiting crowds will yell "Gordo! Gordo!" as each prize is matched up with a ticket number, and hope for a little extra stimulus money amid the global financial...
...still have to put up with security scanners and sniffer dogs. But while the shock of the Mumbai attack may wear off soon, the economic downturn has only just begun to bite, and many expect next year to be worse. "We are all aware of the Bali and Madrid incidents and how things have looked up after that," says Sud of FHRAI. "But yes, the economic meltdown may last a bit longer...
Already, demonstrations of solidarity for the Greek protesters have arisen across European capitals. "We are mobilizing. Solidarity manifestation with Greek insurgents," declared the alternative-media website Indymedia, announcing a Friday rally at Greece's embassy in London. Eleven protesters were arrested Wednesday during clashes in Madrid and Barcelona, while Danish police took 32 people into custody during violent protests in Copenhagen. The Greek consulate in New York City was also attacked...
...seeking to break with ETA's violent tactics. Txeroki was the hardest of hardliners. Thirty-five years old, he moved across the border to France in 2002, and rose quickly through ETA's hierarchy. He is believed to have ordered the December 2006 bombing of a car park at Madrid's Barajas airport, which killed two people and put a definite end to the ceasefire the group had declared earlier that year. Other ETA members now in police custody have testified that he personally pulled the trigger on two Spanish Civil Guards assassinated in the French Atlantic seaboard village...