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Kyrgyzstan Eyes Air Base Deals With France, Spain

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:54:10 +0000

[The Moscow Times]– Kyrgyzstan will on Monday consider renewing permission for French and Spanish troops to use its Manas air base with the U.S. military for operations in Afghanistan, parliamentary officials said.

Kyrgystan cancelled deals with France and Spain in March when it overturned its agreement with the United States on use of the base.

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Spain tips into depression

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:52:30 +0000

Spain is sliding into a full-blown economic depression with unemployment approaching levels not seen since the Second Republic of the 1930s and little chance of recovery until well into the next decade, according to a clutch of reports over recent days.

The Madrid research group RR de Acuña & Asociados said the collapse of Spain’s building industry will cause the economy to contract for the next three years, with a peak to trough loss of over 11pc of GDP. The grim forecast is starkly at odds with claims by premier Jose Luis Zapatero, who still says Spain’s recession will be milder than elsewhere in Europe.

RR de Acuña said the overhang of unsold properties on the market, or still being built, has reached 1,623,000 . This dwarfs annual demand of 218,000, and will take six or seven years to clear. The group said Spain’s unemployment will peak at around 25pc, comparable to the worst chapter of the Great Depression.

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Tomás Fano

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French police uncover ETA weapons and explosives stash

admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:32:38 +0000

French police, acting on a tip-off from Spanish authorities, have found a large stash of explosives and weapons in southern France, only a day after arresting three suspected ETA members and uncovering another cache of explosives.

Police found a large stash of arms and explosives in southern France on Thursday that probably belonged to the Basque separatist group ETA, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.

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