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...excavations of a mass grave located outside the southern town of Alfácar. For decades, the site has been suspected to hold the remains of the renowned poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, who was assassinated by the Nationalist Civil Guard in the early months of Spain's 1936-39 Civil War. For a country that has long suppressed its public memory of the conflict, the exhumation represents one more significant step on the road to making peace with its past. But this being Spain, where nearly every attempt to commemorate the war's victims or punish...
...women are thriving, though stalwarts like the U.K., Germany and France took steps back: "Six European countries are among the 10 highest ranked countries in the world, and 13 are among the top 20. These include the Netherlands(11), Germany (12), Switzerland (13), Latvia (14), the United Kingdom (15), Spain (17) and France(18), in addition to the five Nordic countries and Ireland...
...Read about Omar bin Laden's bid for political asylum in Spain...
...visit there, but he would not recognize it now. There's a water park and countless neon-lit fountains that burble in sync with songs like "Pretty Woman" and "Somewhere over the Rainbow." The town centerpiece is a long promenade with 800 palm trees, sleek benches designed in Valencia, Spain, and an artificial river lit neon blue. Working through the night, workers built the place in three months. Construction unions, Saakashvili joked, would come to Georgia only "when everything is already built." One of the renovated plazas will host a giant civic New Year's Eve concert featuring Julio Iglesias...
From Day One, countering Europe's supposed slide into a godless secularism has been high on Benedict's agenda. Recently, that defense of the church's values has been looking almost like a counteroffensive. On Oct. 17 in Spain, the traditionally Catholic right turned out perhaps as many as 1 million people in the streets of Madrid to oppose plans by the country's center-left government to loosen abortion laws (allowing 16-year-old females, for example, to terminate their pregnancies without parental consent). And on Tuesday, in a Vatican meeting with the new European Union envoy...