A/H1N1 flu cases rise to 135 in Spain
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A/H1N1 flu cases rise to 135 in Spain
Xinhua
f the 135 confirmed cases in Spain 21 are militaries from the Engineers Academy of Hoyo de Manzanarez in Madrid the Health Ministry said. The ministry said that 78 militaries continue being isolated in Hoyo de Manzanares and 91 at El Ferral base in the province of Leon due to the possibility of being infected with the virus. From all the confirmed cases only one is hospitalized in Castilla-Leon northeast of Spain. According to the World Health rganization (WH) 12954 people have been infected with the H1N1 flu virus in 46 countries. WH said of those infected 80 died in Mexico 10 in U.
FIBA announces Spain to host 2014 men’s world championships
NESN.com
The FIBA Central Board voted in Geneva eliminating nine other countries including China and Italy two of the final three. Spain?s organizers estimate that they will need $439 million to build three to four arenas. When the event takes place in 2014 the 24-team tournament will be played in Madrid Bilbao Granada Las Palmas and Seville. ?We look forward to working with FIBA over the next five years in our quest to make the 2014 edition of the FIBA World Championship the best one ever. ” Jose Luis Saez president of the Spanish Basketball Federation declared after the announcement. As the current world champions and lympic silver medalists Spain won the 2006 world championship when Pau Gasol ? at the time with the Memphis Grizzlies and now with the Los Angeles Lakers — was the tournament MVP.
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Radio France Internationale
This is part of an ongoing sweep to wipe out the various mafia clans and the stranglehold they have on Naples. n 19 May police arrested 68 suspected members of the Neapolitan Mafia charging them with murder drug trafficking and money laundering in one of the largest crackdowns in recent history. Police have seized assets worth five million euros in recent sweeps which includes land in Spain and bank accounts in Monaco. Cocaine smuggling in Spain has also played prominently in the charges levied against various mafia factions.
Spain economy faces tough 2010 reform needed-govt
guardian.co.uk
“Two thousand and nine will be a difficult year with a highdegree of uncertainty and we have no doubt that 2010 will not bean easy year for the Spanish economy” Salgado told Spain’sCongress on Wednesday. The European Commission expects Spain to be the last countryin the EU to exit recession probably in 2011 and sees itspublic deficit and debt levels increasing more than in any othereuro zone country bar Ireland due to heavy stimulus spending. Fears about job insecurity in both service and manufacturingsectors were reflected in Spanish retail data on Wednesday whichshowed another hefty sales fall in April as households slashedspending. [ID:nLR602686] Salgado said unemployment was far higher in Spain than otherEuropean countries due to structural problems and the collapseof a house-building boom which had already put over 800000construction workers on the dole.
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Valverde files complaint against WADA
The Associated Press
Valverde says the World Anti-Doping Agency and Italy’s anti-doping tribunal defied a Spanish judge’s order the cyclist’s manager Antonio Sanchez said Tuesday. The judge said evidence obtained in Spain cannot be used against Valverde in Italy. The Italian lympic Committee’s anti-doping tribunal barred Valverde for two years May 11. The committee known as CNI had confronted Valverde with DNA evidence and documents that allegedly showed he was involved in blood doping. More than 50 cyclists were originally implicated in the peration Puerto investigation which focused on an alleged blood doping clinic in Madrid. Before the Italian ruling Valverde took legal action in Spain against anti-doping prosecutor Ettore Torri and now he has filed separate complaints against seven members of the tribunal and against WADA Sanchez said.
Spain’s Criteria Abertis Reshuffle Senior Management >CRI.MC
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(FIBA)Spain Wins Rights to 2014 FIBA Worlds Spain is the host for the 2014 FIBA world basketball championship after a vote by the federation?s central board in Geneva Switzerland on Saturday. In the second round of voting Spain edged out Italy 11-8 to win the right to host the event. China was the other finalist but was eliminated in the first round. ?It has been a long process. We have had three amazing candidates coming from three wonderful countries where there is a strong basketball tradition” Patrick Baumann FIBA’s secretary general said.
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