Tag: Spanish

He may be going home early but Zlatan Ibrahimovic left a spectacular mark on Euro 2012 on Tuesday night. On an evening when France...

The S&P 500 is down 6.3 percent for the month on concerns about the ongoing financial crisis in Europe and signs of slowdown in...

Spain may today move closer to becoming the fourth euro-area nation to receive aid, as theInternational Monetary Fund said the country’s banks need at...

Spanish and Italian companies have showed their interest to procure meat and its by-products from Punjab Agriculture and Meat Company’s (PAMCO) newly set up...

Spanish Ambassador Gonzalo Maria Saravia on Friday visited Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC) and took keen inertest in the ongoing Gandhara art exhibition. Saravia applauded...

A Spanish lawmaker has vowed to sue the FBI for using an image of his face to create a digitally enhanced picture of slain...

Armed officers arrested a suspected Basque separatist in Britain on Thursday in connection with an attempt to assassinate Spain's King Juan Carlos in 1997,...

Punjab University (PU) External Linkages Director Maria Maldonado organised a presentation on “Spain: Language and Culture” at the Department of English on Tuesday. PU Vice...

MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, his popularity hammered by the euro zone's highest jobless rate, said on Saturday he would not seek a third term in 2012 elections his Socialists are expected to lose. Popular Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba and Defence Minister Carme Chacon are seen as possible successors to revive the ruling Socialists, who trail the centre-right opposition Popular Party by up to 15 points in opinion polls. "I will not be a

Played on Sunday: Sporting Gijon 2 (De las Cuevas 32, Andre Castro 40) Getafe 0
Hercules 1 (Paz 50) Almeria 2 (Feghouli 69, M'Bami 72)Malaga 0 Osasuna 1 (Sergio 90)
Levante 1 (Caicedo 26) Espanyol 0
Played Saturday: Real Mallorca 1 (Ramis 31-pen) Valencia 2 (Hernandez 32, 56) Barcelona 1 (Keita 43) Real Zaragoza 0 Atletico Madrid 3 (Reyes 5, Aguero 68, Forlan 72) Villarreal 1 (Rossi 34)

KARACHI - A 20-member buyers' delegation from Spain, currently visiting Pakistan, would look for potential suppliers of various products from Pakistan.
Members of the famous El Corte Ingles Group, Spain's largest chain stores in Europe, who met Governor Sindh Dr Ishrat-ul Ibad on Thursday, would have a series of meetings with Pakistani exporters, businessmen and traders.The buyers group is keen to meet potential suppliers of products of their interest. This, according to sources,

MADRID - Spain announced on Friday that its jobless rate has surged to a 13-year record, above 20 percent at the end of 2010, the highest level in the industrialised world. The resulting unemployment rate was 20.33 percent for the end of year, easily exceeding Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's target of 19.4 percent.
It was more bad news for an economy fighting to regain trust of financial markets and trying to escape a debt quagmire trap that has engulfed Greece,

MADRID - Real Madrid, cushioned by an 8-0 first leg lead, secured their place in the Spanish Cup quarter-finals on Thursday despite a 2-0 defeat in the return match at Levante.
Levante's two second-half goals by Xisco Nadal and Sergio Gonzalez were not enough to overturn Real's huge advantage secured over the Valencia-based side last month and the Spanish giants pushed through 8-2 on aggregate. Last season's runners-up Atletico Madrid, who took a 1-0 lead to Espanyol, made it

MADRID - Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang has said Beijing is willing to buy about

MADRID - Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 18th and 19th league goals of the season as Real Madrid started 2011 with a tense 3-2 win at derby rivals Getafe on Monday to close to within two points of champions Barcelona at the league summit. Portuguese star Ronaldo smashed home an 11th-minute penalty to open the scoring before Angel di Maria set up German international Mesut Ozil for a second on 19 minutes.
Ronaldo grabbed his second on 57 minutes after Getafe had got a foothold in

MADRID - A Spanish judge will probe a raid by Iraqi police and soldiers on a camp for Iranian refugees in July 2009 that killed 11 people, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said Tuesday.
A Spanish National Court ruling in favour of an investigation into the events at Camp Ashraf, near the Iraqi border with Iran, became effective Tuesday after a five-day waiting period for possible appeals, said a lawyer for victims' relatives.
In December 2009 National Court judge Fernando Andreu

MADRID - Smokers stubbed out their cigarettes in tapas bars and restaurants across Spain as one of Europe's strictest anti-tobacco laws came into force on Sunday.
After a one-day amnesty granted for New Year's Day, the new law banning smoking in all bars, restaurants and public places - including even some outdoor areas - took effect at the stroke of midnight Saturday. It was a shock for many Spaniards for whom the cafe culture - lighting up with a few friends while enjoying a