Harold Heckle

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Spain arrests 2 over suspected Iran nuclear export

Harold Heckle · January 11, 2013 9:03 pm

Spaniard jailed in Cuba flies home to finish term

Harold Heckle · December 30, 2012 6:08 am

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy walks away after making a speech at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Friday Dec. 28, 2012. In his end of year assessment, Mariano Rajoy said Friday the crisis had been worse than he had anticipated and that the first half of 2013 will be very hard, but that the economy should begin to recover in the second semester. Rajoy says the country's economy will be in recession for some time and faces a tough year ahead as it grapples with a deep financial crisis and 25 percent unemployment. (AP Photo/Paul White)

P.M. Rajoy says Spain faces tough year ahead

Harold Heckle · December 28, 2012 6:22 pm

Car bomb defused outside Spanish megabrothel

Harold Heckle · December 24, 2012 6:03 pm

Azahara, right, hugs her mother after winning the main Christmas lottery prize âEl Gordoâ (âThe Fat Oneâ) in Alcala de Henares, just outside of Madrid, Saturday Dec. 22, 2012. Lucky winners of Spainâs cherished Christmas lottery, the worldâs richest, celebrated Saturday, as initial indicators show more than a dozen locations where lucky tickets were sold, each picking up the maximum prize of euro 400,000 (US dlrs 529,840), and some thousands of tickets yielding smaller prizes. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Hurting Spaniards celebrate Christmas lottery wins

Harold Heckle · December 22, 2012 1:52 pm

Protestors hold a banner reading, 'Not for sale' during a demonstration against regional government-imposed austerity plans to restructure and part-privatize health care sector in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. Madrid proposes selling off the management of six of 20 public hospitals and 27 of 268 health centers. Spain's regions are struggling with a combined debt of 145 billion euro ($190 billion) as the country's economy contracts into a double-dip recession triggered by a 2008 real estate crash. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Thousands in Spain protest health privatization

Harold Heckle · December 16, 2012 3:32 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2012 file photo, Cuban security forces escort Spanish citizen Angel Carromero, center, to the courthouse in Bayamo, Cuba. Carromero. The Spaniard who was sentenced in Cuba to prison in the death of a prominent dissident will fly back to Spain to serve the rest of his four-year term. Carromero, a Spanish regional political youth leader, was driving a car July 22 that lost control and crashed, killing Oswaldo Paya, a passenger. Paya was a well-known opponent of the Cuban government. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate, File)

Spaniard jailed in Cuba to finish sentence at home

Harold Heckle · December 14, 2012 5:22 pm

Spain’s house prices keep tumbling

Harold Heckle · December 14, 2012 4:31 pm

FILE - This June 26, 2012 file photo shows Rafael Nadal of Spain returning a shot to Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil during a first round men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England. Nadal has confirmed he is ready to return to competitive tennis at the end of the month in an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi, following a six-month break to recover from a knee injury. The 11-time Grand Slam champion said on his Facebook page Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, that he "can't wait to get back on court in Abu Dhabi," and that he "would love to get my hands on the trophy again this year!" (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

Nadal confirms he’ll return to action in Abu Dhabi

Harold Heckle · December 11, 2012 1:46 pm

Protestors hold banners reading, "No financial cuts" and "Public health care system" as they shout slogans during a demonstration against government-imposed austerity measures and labor reforms in the public health care sector in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. Madrid residents and medical workers angered by budget cuts and plans to part-privatize bits of their cherished national health service are protesting. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Thousands protest Spain’s health care austerity

Harold Heckle · December 9, 2012 3:55 pm

A man rests beside at parador hotel of Principe de Viana, in Olite, northern Spain on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. Employees of Spain's premium hotel chain Parador, a state-run group that uses castles, monasteries and palaces, are holding a two-day strike to protest job cuts and possible closures. The Parador hotels group, which started in 1928, says a drop in demand could leave it with accumulated losses of euro107 million ($140 million) by the end of the year. It intends to cut 644 jobs out of a workforce of 4,400. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Spain’s luxury Parador hotels hit by 2-day strike

Harold Heckle · December 7, 2012 7:11 pm

FC Barcelona's Carles Puyol, left, and David Villa, center, duel for the ball against Benfica's Nemanja Matic, from Serbia, during a group G Champions League soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Barcelona soccer club defends use of Catalan

Harold Heckle · December 5, 2012 9:57 pm