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...rate than previous days. In just 24 hours, the incidence rate increased more than 7.5 points, from 174.52 to 182.09 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The incidence rate has increased in every one of the 19 territories, except in Asturias. The highest
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The president of the Medalla de Oro de Asturias (Asturias gold medal), Adrián Barbón, announced last Friday that the miners involved in the operation to rescue Julen Roselló in Totalán in January would be this year's recipients of the prestigious ... prize. Speaking last Friday, Barbón said that the eight Asturian miners "deserve the praise of all of Spain". The Asturias mining rescue brigade made international headlines during the rescue operation, which ended on 26 January when two-year-old
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The annual Princesa de Asturias prize-giving ceremony took place in Oviedo last Friday in the presence of the Royal Family. The prizes reward national and international individuals and groups for outstanding achievement in different walks of life. ... of guests, the winners and the Royals filled the covered inner courtyard of the neighbouring historic hotel. The awards are named after the Princess of Asturias, the heir to the throne. This year was only the second year that 14-year-old Princess
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...outdoor activity of bars and restaurants as long as the incidence rate does not exceed 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In the current situation, seven regions would be left without hospitality in inside spaces: Madrid, Catalonia, Asturias, the Basque
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MIGUEL LORENC
Anne Carson, the radical Canadian essayist and poet, is to be awarded the distinguished annual Princesa de Asturias award, in the category for Literature. The awards are normally given out at a ceremony in October in the presence of the Royal
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...in addition to Ceuta. It only decreased or remained stable in Asturias, Cantabria, Valencia, Madrid, Melilla and Murcia. In addition, the seven-day incidence rate continued to increase at a slightly higher rate than the 14-day one, which also seems
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...were discovered in some patients who had received a dose of the vaccine. Spain 'immediately' suspends AstraZeneca jabs for at least 15 days In Spain, Catalonia, Castilla y León, the Canary Islands, the Valencian Community, Asturias and
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The ambulance driver who allegedly murdered a nurse at the Prince of Asturias Hospital in Alcalá de Henares on Saturday is to appear before the courts. The first hypotheses suggest that he believed that the man had a romantic relationship with his
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ISABEL BÁÑEZ
It seems a bit strange that a factory would be called after one place when it is actually located in another, but that is the case in Asturias, where there is a long-running dispute over the Bayer plant. Its official name is Bayer La Felguera, but ... Asturias and another in Wuppertal, in Germany, where the company first began in 1863. "The process was much more effective in our factory," says the manager of the Spanish plant, Jorge Álvarez, who has worked in different departments since 1996. "The
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...such as Catalonia and Aragon still leading the table, while other regions such as Asturias and Extremadura are much lower. Aragon led the list with 335 cases per 100,000 on Tuesday, compared to the UK’s 15. Asturias had 3 per 100,000, as the lowest.
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...of births decreased in all autonomous regions compared to the same month last year. The greatest decreases occurred in Cantabria (–27.9 per cent), Asturias (–24.7 per cent) and Valencian Community (–24.5 per cent), as well as in the autonomous
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...construction of the bridge is taking place in Asturias. The project will cost around 1.6 million euros, a burden that will be shared equally by Malaga's city council and the provincial government. It is hoped that the installation of the bridge in stages will
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RODRIGO ERRASTI
For the first time in ten years, a woman has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports. Lindsey Vonn is the skier with the highest number of victories (82) in the history of the Alpine Ski World Cup, four wins off the absolute record of ... season. Members of the jury for the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports highlighted her achievements but also the "ability to overcome adversity" of the American who in February, after feeling unable to continue performing at an elite level without
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Community with 23.5; Balearic Islands and Murcia, with 22.4; Andalucía with 21.4; Catalonia with 20.6; Cantabria with 20.4 and Asturias with 20.2. All of them exceeded the national average of 20.
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J. LUIS ÁLVAREZ
...legalising the controlled hunting of them. Up until Friday, wolves, as well as bears, were a protected animal in Spain. The canis lupus signatus, a species native to the Iberian Peninsula, has been growing in numbers in the region of Asturias, and with the ... becoming increasingly difficult to prove that damage to livestock has actually been caused by wolves, with some farmers resorting to surveillance cameras to prove the cause of the unexplained livestock deaths. Asturias authorities insist that the culling ... president of the Asturias region. Despite the protests, wolf numbers and sightings have been increasing. They have been spotted just a few kilometres north of Madrid and are also spreading westwards towards Castilla La Mancha and northern Extremadura; it
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...in the Asturias, Lugo, Ourense, Burgos, Soria and Teruel. There are amber alerts for wind gusts of 90 km/h in Albacete; and yellow warnings, with gusts of up to 80 km/h, in Granada, Valencia, Jaén, Castellón, Almeria, Albacete, A Coruña, Pontevedra, ... Asturias, Cantabria, León, Palencia, Ávila, Burgos, Salamanca, Segovia, Teruel, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Toledo, Cáceres, Badajoz, Navarra, Cadiz, Cordoba, Huelva, Malaga, Seville, Valencia and Ceuta. Finally, they are also yellow notices for rough seas and
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The Asturian city of Oviedo, in northern Spain, was venue for the Princess of Asturias Awards prize giving as usual last Friday. These annual awards honour individuals or organisations for their distinguished service or contribution to global
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...led the police to the suspect's address in Castrillón (Asturias) where he was arrested.
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Tony Bryant
The Torremolinos Dance Centre will present an afternoon of ballet at the Príncipe de Asturias Auditorium tomorrow (Saturday). The show, which begins at midday, will be presented by students of the long-established academy and will offer a
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Debbie Bartlett
It was a happy day for many in Spain, 13 September 1961, because the engagement was announced between Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón and Princess Sophia, the daughter of King Paul of Greece and Frederica of Hanover. The couple and their families were p
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León with 252.10; and Asturias with 250.98. This Tuesday the number of new daily coronavirus infections fell below 10,000, something that had not been seen for 75 days. There were 7,461 new positives recorded, a figure not seen in official statistics
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ALAIN MATEOS
Leonor now has her first doll since becoming the Princess of Asturias. A plastic figure of the heir to the Spanish throne, exactly the same size as the famous Barbie, is to be presented on Sunday at the Official Convention of Barbie Collectors in ... Leonor's doll is not for sale, but this one is, and it costs 200 euros. The queen doll is wearing a dark blue dress; it is a replica of the one she wore when she opened the summer courses at the Princesa de Asturias International Music School in July last
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Smoking is already banned on some beaches in Galicia, Asturias, Catalonia, Murcia, the Balearic Islands and the Canaries, and in Andalucía too, although only on the Granada beach in Motril where anyone who throws a cigarette end on the sand can face
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Malaga are through to the next round of the Copa del Rey after beating Real Oviedo at La Rosaleda on Wednesday. It took them nearly two hours to find a goal in what was the first of two matches against the Asturias side in three days. 1
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...call you at two o'clock so you can come to work at three.” “These conditions have caused our professionals to emigrate abroad and to other autonomous communities. Each region offers different contracts - Asturias is offering three-year contracts while
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The Princess of Asturias, heir to the Spanish throne, spoke in public at an official event for the first time on Wednesday. Princess Leonor, eldest daughter of Felipe VI, was celebrating her thirteenth birthday and the king and queen have been
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...found, there was immediate recognition for the team of eight "heroes" from the mine-rescue service in Asturias, northern Spain, who had worked in shifts to excavate the rock in the last stages in dangerous conditions. "We only want to say one thing as
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...a wide variety of criminals, say officers. The operation centred on Madrid, Asturias and Cantabria, where eleven homes and premises linked to the group were searched. The group traded weapons from Spain and other countries, including
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British author Karen Armstrong has been awarded Spain’s Princesa de Asturias prize for Social Sciences for her books on comparative religion. The 72-year-old writer, who was born in Worcestershire in 1944, expressed her “deep gratitude” for having
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149.92 on Friday, while two days ago it was 138.7 cases. The current incidence places Andalucía below the Spanish average, estimated at 262.79 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and as the fourth region with fewer cases after Murcia, Asturias and the Canary
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...smart shoulder-length style, however the haircut is not as drastic as the sleek bob that the Queen had a few years ago. She has had this haircut just in time for the 2017 Princess of Asturias Awards next week.
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Daryl Finch 24th February 1928
...the UK's Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who facilitated the meeting. During this time she would spend long periods residing in the Príncipe de Asturias hotel. The first visitor to arrive was Prince George (later King George VI, played by Colin ... including an international tennis tournament and a football match between Malaga CF and British Royal Navy personnel who were docked in the port. Today, the Príncipe de Asturias hotel is known as the Gran Hotel Miramar, Malaga's first five-star luxury
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...inside the shaft on Thursday afternoon. After the completion of an access platform on the surface, the specialists from the Asturias Mining Rescue Brigade are working at the bottom of the shaft in order to tunnel through three metres to the reach the
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Antonio Javier López
...de Asturias Arts Award. Five years later, he created a sculptural installation for the dome of the Human Rights Room at the UN in Geneva. His popularity and institutional prestige has taken his works to the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Reina Sofía in Madrid,
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...about gravitational waves to be verified. That's why Stephen never won the Nobel Prize during his lifetime.” A collection of awards Stephen Hawking was however awarded the Príncipe de Asturias Award for Concord in 1989, by a young Felipe de Borbón, ... us that the future isn't written and it can be changed.” Teresa Sanjurjo of the Princess of Asturias Foundation said that “He was a wise man and an example of the strength of the human spirit.” The Partido Popular (PP) also released a statement: “He
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SUSANA ZAMORA
...tourism business in Taramundi, in Asturias, a municipality with 52 hamlets. He had lived in the one called Teixois until he was eight and already owned three properties there. In 2002 he bought another two "at a very good price" and now owns a large part
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Rachel Haynes what happened today?
"His Majesty has just informed me of his wish to give up the throne and start the succession process," he said. King Juan Carlos was to abdicate and leave the Spanish throne to his son and heir, Felipe, then the Prince of Asturias. The monarch himself
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...rescue, from visiting experts to villagers Working in pairs in 40-minute shifts, specialists from the Asturias Mining Rescue Brigade set about digging a horizontal tunnel from the bottom of the shaft to connect with section of the hole where Julen is
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TONY BRYANT
A festive concert offering traditional flamenco Christmas carols will be held in the Príncipe de Asturias auditorium in Torremolinos on Saturday 25 November. Local flamenco group, Casa Pestiño, will perform the Andalusian Villancicos, a style
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Ángel Escalera
Could immortality be possible one day? This was the burning question at a talk given in Malaga last Friday by Ginés Morata, member of the Spanish scientific research council (CSIC) and winner of the prestigious Prince of Asturias award in 2007.