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E. C. / A. F.
Forensic tests have shown that bones found during last Saturday's search for Dana Leonte's body do not belong to the missing Romanian woman. More than 300 people participated in the search in the mountains around Arenas, Sedella and Salaraes,
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EUGENIO CABEZAS
The Guardia Civil along with the Andalusian mountaineering federation (FAM) are calling for experienced mountaineers and hunters to help in a search for any traces of the missing Romanian woman, Dana Leonte. The search will take place on Saturday ... Arenas, where she lived with her partner, Sergio Ruiz, found a femur which DNA tests have proved belonged to the woman. However, no other traces have been found since then. FAM stressed that anyone who wishes to take part in the search must be
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ANDREA JIMÉNEZ
...by deputy mayor, Félix Romero, along with councillors from all the political groups in the town hall, who kept a minute's silence. "She was a brave woman, who became a symbol for many silenced victims and marked a turning point in social and
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SUR
Three men have been arrested following an incident in August in Algarrobo when a woman was mugged and sexually assaulted by three men while putting her three-month-old baby in his car seat. The attack happened on an area of wasteland which is used ... as a car park. One of the men allegedly held a revolver to the woman while he touched her and another took two bags containing money, documents and other personal items. They are believed to have told the woman that they would kill her and her family
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fernando torres
A Belgian woman was found dead in her country house in Tolox on Tuesday. Her body was discovered by her brother, who lives in Coín. He became concerned when the woman, named as Ana, did not answer his calls on Tuesday, since they would usually ... reply. When he reached her bedroom, he found her lifeless body under the covers in bed with signs of violence. He immediately called 112, and the Guardia Civil and an ambulance were dispatched to the location, but were only able to confirm the woman ... said that he came and went from Belgium but did not have a permanent residence in the Malaga province. Preliminary investigations suggest that the woman died in the early hours of the morning. Neighbours said they heard a vehicle at around five in the
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alvaro frías / FERNANDO TORRES
A Belgian man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a woman in Tolox on Tuesday. He was detained in Belgium under a European Arrest Warrant put out by the Guardia Civil. The victim's body was discovered by her brother, who ... lives in Coín. He became concerned when the woman, named as Ana, did not answer his calls on Tuesday, as they would usually speak on the phone every day. He drove to her house, which is located in a remote rural area in Tolox municipality, home to many ... 112, and the Guardia Civil and an ambulance were dispatched to the location, but were only able to confirm the woman's death. The prime suspect from the start was the now-detainee, a Belgian man with whom Ana had been friends for several months. It
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EUROPA PRESS
A 75-year-old Dutch woman died after falling into the ocean from the Costa Pacífica cruise ship last Friday night. It is reported that the woman fell overboard from deck eight, plunging 15 metres into the water, while the ship was approaching the ... Mediterranean from the Atlantic. Maritime Rescue received an emergency call at 10.43pm last Friday night and immediately initiated a search and rescue operation for the missing woman. The María Zambrano rescue boat and the Helimer 207 helicopter were ... dispatched to the area which also received assistance from NATO units which were in the area at the time. Eventually, the woman's body was recovered by the María Zambrano rescue boat at 8.58am the next day, 45 miles south-east of Trafalgar in Cadiz
Sport
SUR IN ENGLISH
Walking Football Spain joined Smiles WFC in travelling to La Viñuela for a fundraising tournament to help a local young family who have had a difficult year. The matches were very competitive with Smiles set on remaining number one on the Costa. Ho
LifeStyle
SUSANA ZAMORA
...an 'espetera'. She is one of the select group of professionals responsible for the skewers of sardines ('espetos')cooked on the open wood fires at beach restaurants. And she is the only woman in Malaga province in this traditionally male role. But ... how exactly did a woman from the coastless province of Cáceres end up cooking what is the Costa del Sol's most traditional seaside dish? "When I arrived in Malaga, I'd never seen an espeto before and I was fascinated by this way of cooking sardines ... feel about being the only woman in a typically male profession? "I don't understand it because women are now in all professions. A woman can do the job as well as a man, if not better. In general we women are perfectionists, organised, disciplined,
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A. P. / J. C. / E. C
The partner of missing Romanian woman, Dana Leonte, 31, was arrested on Wednesday after a bone, which preliminary DNA checks have revealed belong to a woman, were found near the village of Arenas, where the couple lived with their baby daughter. ... The bone has been sent off for urgent forensic test to ascertain if it belonged to the missing woman. Sergio Ruiz's arrest comes after police stepped up the investigation into Leonte's disappearance in June following the discovery of the bone as well ... brother, Florín Leonte, has maintained that the woman would never leave her baby daughter and that her partner was behind her disappearance. Ruiz's lawyer, Juanjo Moreno, said on Thursday that his client maintains he is innocent and "is very calm".
LifeStyle
Ángel Escalera
So far this year Cristina Cosano has been in hospital several times, including in the intensive care unit (UCI). In total, she has spent six months and nine days in the Regional Hospital (formerly the Carlos Haya hospital) during 2019. The reason she
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J. C. / A. F. / F. T.
...to be bones of animals that live in the area, sources close to the investigation have said that some appear to be human remains. The bones have been sent off for testing to see if they correspond to the woman's DNA. Police have said that they could
National
SUR
The woman found guilty last week of the premeditated murder of eight-year-old Gabriel Cruz in February 2018 has been sentenced to Spain's longest possible term in prison. Ana Julia Quezada is the first woman to be given the permanent reversible
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CHARO MÁRQUEZ.
A 60-year-old Spanish woman from Marbella was arrested on Monday on suspicion of causing three recent fires in the Bello Horizonte and Los Monteros areas, the third on Monday this week. Police suspicions were raised following reports of a woman ... in a red car in the area of each of the fires, which were started around the same time on each date. Flammable material and several lighters were found in the vehicle upon the woman's arrest.
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SUR
Patricia Ortega has been appointed the first woman general at a ceremony in Madrid. The 56-year-old was among the first intake of women into the army in 1988 after graduating as an agronomist. She is now director of the national institute of
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SUR
A woman, charged with causing the death of a chihuahua, will appear in court on 28 October. The public prosecutor's office is calling for a 12-month prison sentence for the accused. The alleged crime took place over the Christmas of 2015, when the ... woman left the chihuahua and another mixed-breed dog in her locked house in Alhaurín el Grande, "without food, water, ventilation or even sunlight". It was the woman's neighbour who alerted officers in January 2016, after hearing constant barking and ... dehydration caused by the accused, who, knowing that the animals were in the house, left them in those conditions". In addition to the possible 12-month prison sentence, the prosecutor is calling for a three-year ban on the woman working with or owning
Gibraltar
Debbie Bartlett
We now know what a Neolithic woman who lived in Gibraltar 7,500 years ago looked like, thanks to the facial reconstruction of a skull found in a burial site inside a cave near Europa Point in 1996. Using DNA technology, archaeologists and experts ... at The Gibraltar Museum have painstakingly reproduced the facial characteristics of the dark-haired, dark-eyed woman. It has been named 'Calpeia', and was unveiled this week by Heritage Minister, Dr John Cortes.
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SUR/EFE
The judge leading the investigation into the disappearance and suspected murder of missing Romanian woman, Dana Leonte, 31, has maintained that evidence shows that Leonte's partner, Sergio Ruiz, hit her on the head with a bat, leaving her ... daughter. Police using sniffer dogs, drones and satellites continue their search for the missing woman's body in the area where a thigh bone, which has been linked to her through DNA tests, was found last week. Geolocation tests carried out on the
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JUAN CANO
A young woman who claimed she was raped in Fuengirola earlier this month has admitted that she made the story up to spite her boyfriend, who hadn't paid her enough attention on an evening out. The police are taking the matter seriously, because
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J. C. / Á. F.
A 45-year-old woman has been arrested in Malaga, accused of beating her father to death and stabbing her mother, who required hospital treatment. The alarm was raised at 6am on Tuesday morning by the victims' grandchildren (the children of the ... alleged attacker) who were woken by the strong smell of gas coming from the gas tap in the kitchen that had been left open by the alleged assailant. They then discovered the scene and alerted the emergency services. Upon arrival, they treated the woman ... psychiatric ward of the Hospital Clínico for an examination. The police believe that by leaving the gas tap open, the woman was also trying to end the life of her children.
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C. M.
A Local Police officer in Marbella saved a women who almost choked to death at the town's market on Tuesday. Having received a radio call, he rode his motorcycle to where the woman was being treated for what was thought to be a collapse. "But
Local
Eugenio Cabezas
Two months after the disappearance of Dana Leonte from the home she shares with her partner, Sergio Ruiz, in the village of Arenas in the Axarquía, a police investigation has failed to lead to information as to her whereabouts. Leonte, 31, who move
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EFE.
A 21-year-old Brazilian woman was detained on arrival at Malaga Airport after police inspected her luggage and found four anoraks with around a kilo of a white powdery substance in the lining of each. Later tests showed positive for cocaine. The ... woman, who arrived from her home country, had taken a flight via Zurich supposedly in order to avoid detection.
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Eugenio Cabezas
A 20-year-old woman was rescued from a fire in her home in the village of Canillas de Albaida last Sunday. Neighbours noticed flames coming from the first floor of the building where the woman was asleep. The other three homes in the building ... were empty at the time. Rescuers, who included the village's mayor, Jorge Martín, managed to wake the woman and bring her to safety.
Local
Nieves Castro
...yes, the council needs to wait for the regional ministry for the Environment's approval for the move, which is expected shortly. The sculpture is of a woman waterskiing and the plan is to place it in a 53-square-metre ellipse of water, at an angle to
Opinion
Peter Edgerton
Thwack! The old woman's umbrella hit the rain-sodden pavement with a light splash and immediately cast me onto the horns of a dilemma. The scene unfolded thus: a strikingly tall lady about eighty years old was walking towards me on an otherwise ... frail grasp of the poor despondent woman and risk the bother of being challenged to a terribly inconvenient pistols-at-dawn duel the following morning for my impertinence. I was bracing myself to lurch downwards and incur the young man's wrath when ... something quite extraordinary occurred. The woman swung out one leg horizontally behind her, leaning forward with one of her arms outstretched while the other hand homed in on the brolly which she duly swept up with an elegance not seen since Margot Fonteyn
Local
Eugenio Cabezas
The jury in the trial of José O. T., the man accused of stabbing his partner and La Viñuela resident María "Adela" Fortes Molina more than 30 times on 13 February 2018, delivered its verdict on Friday. The woman's former partner, something he ... denied, was unanimously found guilty of "mercilessly" stabbing her to death without giving her any chance to defend herself. He is now awaiting sentencing and is facing up to 25 years behind bars. Judges had heard on Wednesday that the murdered woman
Sport
Tony Bryant
(Club de Atletismo de Nerja) with a time of 00.21.27. María Bravo (Club de Atletismo Rincón de la Victoria) came in first place in the woman's category with a time of 00.26.16.
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Tony Bryant
...will take place in Benalmádena and Torremolinos, where, collectively, 338 women are currently under police protection: 68 of these are considered to be living under a high risk of further aggression. The Municipal Information Center for Woman (CMIM) ... gather in Plaza Blas Infante for a minute's silence in honour of the victims of gender violence. This will be followed by a flash mob performed by students of IES Playamar. The song chosen for the occasion is Manuel Carrasco's Woman of a Thousand Battles.
LifeStyle
Ángel Escalera
...generated. If it is hard for a man to be with one woman, you only have to imagine what it would be like for him to be surrounded by five. Are there key stimuli? There are those stimuli, as I said, that we link to our memory of pleasure. They enter
Local
Juan Cano / Álvaro Frías
The two British men on trial in Malaga in March in connection with the disappearance of Latvian woman Agnese Klavina have been found guilty of coercion and not of kidnapping as the Prosecution Department had called for. The court has sentenced ... one day) sentence for his role as Capper's accomplice. Agnese Klavina.SUR The young Latvian woman has not been seen since, however the court did not find that the evidence, in the form of CCTV footage, proved that the British pair had kidnapped
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Tony Bryant
...he feels that he made the correct decision to let Charlee die. “She was an incredibly brave woman and I am responsible for her death, but I know I have given her the ultimate gift. I killed the one I loved out of love. I gave her what she wanted.
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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
...women achieve these same goals. The responsibility of every woman climbing the career ladder is to let others climb it too. Sometimes we are worried that, after all the hard work it took, another woman may take our place. That can sometimes be the reason ... respected. Work environments are more positive when we value empathy and collaboration. Do you consider yourself an inspiration for other women? Any woman who has climbed the ladder is an inspiration for other women. Many women have inspired me and if ... I can do that for others, that's great. That's why I think I have a certain degree of responsibility to help others. Your father told you that there will be two problems in your career: "being a woman and being black". Has that been the case? I
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ÁLVARO FRÍAS / JUAN CANO
A British man has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 19-year-old British woman during her holiday in Marbella. Reports of the crime were made by the woman herself, who appeared at Hospital Costa del Sol, claiming that she had been the victim ... of sexual assault. The alleged attack occurred during a night out drinking, when the woman, accompanied by her female friend, went out into town, having consumed a large quantity of alcohol. It was in the streets of Marbella that the two women ... into the bathroom and closing the door behind him. The young woman recalls being raped by the British man, who, according to the 19-year-old's accusations, continued despite her asking him to stop. She claims that her drunken state was what inhibited
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ÁLVARO FRÍAS / EUGENIO CABEZAS
Fast-acting Guardia Civil officers arrested a man at Malaga Airport in the early hours of last Thursday as he prepared to flee the country with his four children. This followed a report filed to the Guardia in Nerja just hours earlier by a woman
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ANA PÉREZ-BRYAN / IVÁN GELIBTER
The first woman to be officially counted as a fatal victim of domestic or gender violence, after the statistic was introduced in 2003, was Yaneth Vargas. Her partner killed her in Fuengirola on 7 January 2003. Since then more than a thousand women
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JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS
An autopsy has confirmed that the 26-year-old woman and 36-year-old man, both of Finnish origin, whose bodies were found in a flat in the Mijas area last Thursday afternoon, did not die as a result of violence. It is thought that the bodies could ... Police initially considered the possibility that the woman had been murdered because of the stains of blood found in the flat. However, following the autopsy, investigators believe that the deaths are most likely drug-related - either that both had ... woman lived in the property, not with the man, but with her boyfriend, who is of a similar age to the woman. According to one neighbour, the younger man was seen entering the property on Wednesday. However given the stage of decomposition, the victims
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Juan cano / Alvaro frías
A woman has been held on suspicion of making up that she was kidnapped and gang-raped in order to hide a sexual liaison. The incident was reported in June, when the accused said she was taken by car from a bus stop and attacked. A neighbour has
Sport
MARINA RIVAS
...leading organisation in this sport, recognised by FIFA, was the only one to be awarded to a woman. Before joining Malaga, Carol's list of achievements included gold and two silver medals in the European beach soccer championships with Spain and also won
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Juan cano / álvaro frías
The Guardia Civil are investigating the deaths of two people, a 26 year-old woman and a 36 year-old man, both of Finnish origin, whose bodies were found in a flat in the Mijas area on Thursday afternoon. It is thought that the bodies could have ... initially considered the possibility that the woman had been murdered because of the stains of blood found in the flat. However, after removing the bodies, investigators believe that the deaths could be drug-related. Interviews with neighbours have ... provided more information about the pair. Primarily, it was thought that the two individuals were a couple, but neighbours' testimonies state that the woman lived in the property, not with the man, but with her boyfriend, who is of a similar age to the