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By Gabriel Rubio-Giron (AFP) – Mar 9, 2014  Cortegada — For sale: hamlet in Spain. Needs work. Price: zero euros.Like thousands of abandoned villages in Spain, A Barca -- with its 12 crumbling stone homes covered in moss and ivy -- is seeking a new owner to bring it back to life.Local officials in Spain's verdant northwestern region of Galicia hope to give away the hamlet, which is nestled in a hillside overlooking the Mino river near the Portuguese border.The successful applicant must present Read more [...] RP Es lo que se llama un armario; más ancho que alto, rostro de adoquín y sobre los cien kilos de peso. Poca broma con Aleksandr Muzichkovo, uno de los líderes del Pravy Sektor (Sector de derechas). Su mera presencia intimida. Con su uniforme de camuflaje, a Muzichkovo se le ha visto poner orden en la fiscalía de Rovno. Agarró por la corbata a la primera autoridad judicial de la región, un hombre joven y más bien frágil que no osa replicar la oleada de insultos que le dedica el ultraderechista, Read more [...] Es lo que se llama un armario; ms ancho que alto, rostro de adoqun y sobre los cien kilos de peso. Poca broma con Aleksandr Muzichkovo, uno de los lderes del Pravy Sektor (Sector de derechas). Su mera presencia intimida. Con su uniforme de camuflaje, a Muzichkovo se le ha visto poner orden en la fiscala de Rovno. Agarr por la corbata a la primera autoridad judicial de la regin, un hombre joven y ms bien frgil que no osa replicar la oleada de insultos que le dedica el ultraderechista, lo zarandea, Read more [...] He’s been called “the Jimi Hendrix of the bagpipes,” and also “the seventh Chieftain.” Carlos Núñez is, however, neither Scottish nor Irish. Born in the Galician town of Vigo, in the northwest corner of Spain, he plays the gaita galega, a kind of bagpipe related to, but different from, the familiar Scottish Highland pipes and the Irish uilleann pipes of head Chieftain Paddy Moloney. This Friday, Núñez will be bringing his signature instrument to Revels’ first “Fringe” evening, Read more [...] Carlos Núñez will perform 7:30 p.m. March 8 at the College of Southern Maryland’s Leonardtown campus, 22950 Hollywood Road. Núñez comes from the Celtic nation of Galicia in Spain. He plays the pennywhistle, ocarina, Jew’s harp, tin whistle, flute and the “gaita” (Galician bagpipe). He is one of Galicia’s most Read more [...] The world’s most adventurous bagpipe player doesn’t hail from Ireland.Or Scotland. Or Wales. Or even France’s historically Celtic Brittany region.No, the most progressive piper comes from Spain.In Boston for the Revels Fringe festival tonight at the Somerville Armory and returning next week for the St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn shows, Carlos Nunez knows people don’t think of Spaniards as great pipers.“People are told Spain is for flamenco, Mexico mari­achi, Argentina tango and Brazil Read more [...] Ukraine’s ultra-right-wing Svoboda party is no fringe organization. "The April 6 rally in Cherskasy, a city 100 miles southeast of Kiev, turned violent after six men took off their jackets to reveal T-shirts emblazoned with the words 'Beat the Kikes' and 'Svoboda,' the name of the Ukrainian ultranationalist movement and the Ukrainian word for 'freedom.'" – Jewish Telegraphic Agency, April 12, 2013 While most of the Western media describes the current crisis in the Ukraine as a confrontation Read more [...] Mackerel landing. (Photo: Juan Murias/Copyright: FIS) Mackerel quota distribution generates further conflict SPAIN Friday, March 07, 2014, 03:00 (GMT + 9) The General Secretariat of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Magrama) Read more [...] Secretary General of Marine Affairs of Xunta de Galicia, Juan Maneiro. (Photo: Xunta de Galicia) Chile and Management 'are not to blame for mussel sector atomization' SPAIN Thursday, March 06, 2014, 23:50 (GMT + 9) Secretary General of Marine Affairs of Xunta Read more [...] (Corbis) Se immaginassimo un'Italia a misura delle ormai sepolte velleità secessioniste della Lega Nord scopriremmo confini sorti quando gli arcavoli di Umberto Bossi erano già nati. Confini storici determinati in tempi relativamente recenti (lo spartiacque è il Congresso di Vienna) ma che contano molto Read more [...]

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