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• Portugal inmates are serving time and ... wine
It might be the good sandy terrain and the sun, but oenologists at Portugal's Pinheiro da Cruz prison say what gives their wine its prize-winning taste is the spirit of the inmates who make it. There are no striped suits, armed guards or watchtowers ...
• Aide: John Paul was wounded in 1982 stabbing
On May 12, 1982, the pope was visiting the shrine city of Fatima in Portugal to give thanks for surviving a first assassination attempt a year earlier on May 13, 1981, when he was shot in St. Peter's Square by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca. Crazed ...
• Topless activists protest EU bullfighting
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Animal-rights activists staged a topless protest outside the European Parliament on Thursday, demanding the European Union ban bullfighting and stop aiding the industry in Spain, France and Portugal. Some 20 men and women lay down ...
• CONTINUED : Fresh stimulus plan?
As for the Europeans, governments there said they were putting $2.3 trillion on the line, based on pledges from Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Austria and Portugal in recent days. To assist the European banks, the Federal Reserve here announced ...
• Europe puts $2.3 trillion on line for banks
The amount — pledged by Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Austria — dwarfs the $700 billion rescue package put together by U.S. President Bush’s administration, although not all the European money will necessarily ...