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LMAJ urges members to follow law amid JP arrest
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LMAJ urges members to follow law amid JP arrest
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MANCHESTER, Jamaica — The Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica (LMAJ) says it is reminding justices of the peace and specifically members of the ass...
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Jamaicans dominate Caribbean Culinary Impact Awards
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Jamaicans dominated the 2025 Caribbean Culinary Impact Awards with 12 nationals from the island among honourees named by culinary authority Best Dress...
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Russia pledges ‘full support’ for Venezuela against US ‘hostilities’
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Russia pledges ‘full support’ for Venezuela against US ‘hostilities’
December 22 03:06 PM
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Russia on Monday expressed "full support" for Venezuela as the South American country confronts a blockade of sanctioned oi...
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UTech student from western Jamaica awarded nursing scholarship
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UTech student from western Jamaica awarded nursing scholarship
December 22 02:56 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A final-year University of Technology (UTech) nursing student from western Jamaica was awarded a US$1,000 scholarship from the Jam...
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Last of kidnapped Nigerian pupils handed over, government says
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Last of kidnapped Nigerian pupils handed over, government says
December 22 02:30 PM
MINNA, Nigeria (AFP) — Some 130 Nigerian Catholic school pupils were handed over to state authorities on Monday, a day after the government said it ha...
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Jamaica leveraging international partnerships in rebuilding effort
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Jamaica leveraging international partnerships in rebuilding effort
December 22 02:20 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Minister of Water, Environment and Climate Change, Matthew Samuda,  says Jamaica is leveraging its international partnerships and ...
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Dizneyland fun day to bring Christmas cheer to St Ann
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Dizneyland fun day to bring Christmas cheer to St Ann
December 22 01:12 PM
Acknowledging that the Christmas season should prioritise wholesome family fun, Dizneyland Kids and Teen Festival promoter Streets Entertainment says ...
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Marlie Mount Primary reaches out to schools in St Elizabeth
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Marlie Mount Primary reaches out to schools in St Elizabeth
December 22 12:27 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Marlie Mount Primary and Infant School in St Catherine has reached out to two primary schools in St Elizabeth with relief supp...
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Spain scrambles to limit damage from African swine fever
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November 29, 2025
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain was scrambling on Saturday to limit the economic impact from an outbreak of African swine fever, a day after announcing it...
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Spain detains rebel nuns over sale of Church cultural assets
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Spain detains rebel nuns over sale of Church cultural assets
November 28, 2025
BRIVIESCA, Spain (AFP) — Two excommunicated Spanish nuns who have joined a sect were held for allegedly selling cultural assets belonging to the Catho...
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Picasso painting vanishes en route to Spanish exhibition
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Picasso painting vanishes en route to Spanish exhibition
October 16, 2025
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spanish police are investigating the disappearance of a Pablo Picasso painting, which vanished while in transit from Madrid to t...
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Spanish town bans black cat adoptions over fear of Halloween ‘rituals’
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Spanish town bans black cat adoptions over fear of Halloween ‘rituals’
October 15, 2025
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Long stigmatised for bringing bad luck or for links with the occult, black cats have found salvation in a Spanish town that has ...
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WATCH: Jamaica reaffirms strong partnership with Spain
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WATCH: Jamaica reaffirms strong partnership with Spain
October 12, 2025
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith on Thursday reaffirmed the strong relations between Jamaica and Spain, not...
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Spain hailed as strategic partner in Jamaica’s economic development
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Spain hailed as strategic partner in Jamaica’s economic development
October 10, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, says Spain has played a pivotal role in assisting Jam...
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Heat-related deaths in Spain up 88 per cent from last year
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Heat-related deaths in Spain up 88 per cent from last year
October 2, 2025
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The number of heat-related deaths in Spain between May 16 and September 30 hit 3,832, an 87.6-per cent increase from the same pe...
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Spain aims to create new gender violence crime category
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Spain aims to create new gender violence crime category
September 30, 2025
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain's leftist government on Tuesday approved a bill to make violence that targets women by harming their loved ones a separate...
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Spain thrash Bulgaria in opening 2026 World Cup qualifier
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Spain thrash Bulgaria in opening 2026 World Cup qualifier
September 4, 2025
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AFP)-Spain kicked off their World Cup 2026 qualification campaign with an emphatic 3-0 win in Bulgaria on Thursday. The Euro 2024 cha...
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Barcelona open Liga title defence strolling past nine-man Mallorca
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Barcelona open Liga title defence strolling past nine-man Mallorca
August 16, 2025
MADRID, Spain (AFP)—Spanish champions Barcelona opened their Liga campaign on Saturday with an island cruise as they played almost an hour against nin...
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Pilot, passenger missing after stunt plane crash
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Pilot, passenger missing after stunt plane crash
August 3, 2025
Barcelona, Spain (AFP) — Spanish emergency services on Sunday searched for two occupants of an acrobatic plane that went into the sea off the coast of...
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Spanish court orders rebel nuns out of convent
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Spanish court orders rebel nuns out of convent
August 1, 2025
MADRID, Spain (AFP) - A Spanish court has ordered a group of nuns excommunicated from the Catholic Church to be expelled from their convent, according...
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Fan dies after falling from stands at Nations League final
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Fan dies after falling from stands at Nations League final
June 8, 2025
MUNICH, Germany (AFP) -- A spectator was killed after falling from the stands at the Nations League final between Portugal and Spain in Munich on Sund...
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Portugal beat Spain on penalties to win Nations League
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Portugal beat Spain on penalties to win Nations League
June 8, 2025
MUNICH, Germany (AFP) -- Ruben Neves scored the decisive spot kick after Alvaro Morata missed as Portugal beat Spain 5-3 on penalties following a 2-2 ...
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Yamal, Williams dazzle as Spain beat France in nine-goal thriller
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Yamal, Williams dazzle as Spain beat France in nine-goal thriller
June 5, 2025
STUTTGART, Germany (AFP) -- Spain starlets Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams dazzled as La Roja beat France 5-4 in a thriller in Stuttgart on Thursday, t...
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No power, no phone, no transport — Spain in a panic
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No power, no phone, no transport — Spain in a panic
April 28, 2025
Madrid, Spain (AFP)— Panicked customers scrambled to withdraw cash from banks and streets overflowed with crowds floundering without internet and phon...
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China footballer dies on eve of 19th birthday after head injury in Spain
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China footballer dies on eve of 19th birthday after head injury in Spain
March 20, 2025
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A promising Chinese footballer who suffered a serious head injury while playing in Spain has died a day short of his 19th birth...
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Spain court rejects father’s bid to stop daughter’s euthanasia
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Spain court rejects father’s bid to stop daughter’s euthanasia
March 17, 2025
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — A Spanish court on Monday said it had rejected an appeal by a father who tried to stop his young paraplegic daughter's euthan...
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‘Now it’s over’ says Hermoso after Rubiales found guilty
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‘Now it’s over’ says Hermoso after Rubiales found guilty
February 22, 2025
MADRiD, Spain (AFP) -- Spain international Jenni Hermoso said Saturday the ordeal sparked by the forcible kiss from disgraced former Spanish football ...
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Spanish royals visit flood disaster town
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Spanish royals visit flood disaster town
December 22, 2024
MADRID, Spain (AFP) - Spain's King Felipe VI and his family on Sunday carried out a surprise visit to one of the towns worst hit by deadly floods in O...
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Ex-IMF chief Rato gets four-year jail term in Spain for tax crimes
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Ex-IMF chief Rato gets four-year jail term in Spain for tax crimes
December 20, 2024
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — A Madrid court on Friday said ex-chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and former Spanish economy minister Rodrigo Rato...
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Spain central bank raises 2024 growth forecast despite floods
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Spain central bank raises 2024 growth forecast despite floods
December 17, 2024
Madrid, Spain (AFP) - Spain's central bank raised its 2024 growth forecast by 0.3 percentage points on Tuesday despite the impact of the devastating O...
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Jamaicans dominate Caribbean Culinary Impact Awards
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Jamaicans dominated the 2025 Caribbean Culinary Impact Awards with 12 nationals from the island among honourees named by culinary authority Best Dress...
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Russia pledges ‘full support’ for Venezuela against US ‘hostilities’
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Russia pledges ‘full support’ for Venezuela against US ‘hostilities’
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Russia on Monday expressed "full support" for Venezuela as the South American country confronts a blockade of sanctioned oi...
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UTech student from western Jamaica awarded nursing scholarship
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UTech student from western Jamaica awarded nursing scholarship
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — A final-year University of Technology (UTech) nursing student from western Jamaica was awarded a US$1,000 scholarship from the Jam...
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Last of kidnapped Nigerian pupils handed over, government says
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Last of kidnapped Nigerian pupils handed over, government says
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MINNA, Nigeria (AFP) — Some 130 Nigerian Catholic school pupils were handed over to state authorities on Monday, a day after the government said it ha...
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