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From the left, Denmark's Lars Jacobsen, Lasse Schone and Tobias Mikkelsen celebrate their victory at the Euro 2012 Group B match between the Netherlands and Denmark in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Saturday, June 9, 2012. Denmark won the match 1-0. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Euro 2012: Denmark upsets Netherlands; Germany holds off Portugal

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Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos gestures during a news conference at the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in Madrid on Saturday, June 9, 2012. Spain will ask for a bailout for banks felled by bad real estate loans, in an about-face that European officials welcomed Saturday and said could cost up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion). A rescue for Spain will be Europe's fourth since the single currency bloc's debt crisis erupted two years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Europe bailout of Spain could cost $125B

By Daniel Woolls and Sarah DiLorenzo - Associated Press

**FILE** A demonstrator holds a banner reading in Spanish "Bankia is a wild animal" during a demonstration June 2, 2012, next to a Bankia bank branch in Barcelona. (Associated Press)

Spain’s ailing banks threaten country’s finances

By Alan Clendenning - Associated Press

Demonstrators play drums as they march in a protest to mark the anniversary of the beginning of the "Indignados" movement in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, May 12, 2012. Spanish activists angered by grim economic prospects planned nationwide demonstrations Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of their protest movement that inspired similar groups in other countries. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

At least 100,000 march in Spain over austerity

By Alan Clendenning - Associated Press

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A woman walks past a closed store in Madrid on Saturday. Spain is back in the center of the eurozone debt crisis as the interest rate on its government bonds rose Monday to their highest level since December, a sign that investors are becoming more concerned about the country's ability to afford its debts.

Spain’s borrowing costs take worrisome jump

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WITH STORY SLUGGED PORTUGAL HARD TIMES - Luis Sequeira Fernandes, a solicitor who runs one of Portugal's biggest bailiff offices, stands among thousands of processes files in one of the storage rooms of his firm in Alcochete, outside Lisbon, March 12 2012. Fernandes says that when his staff, acting on court orders, pursue assets to convert to cash they are increasingly finding that debtors have nothing left to confiscate. Lenders demanded debt-reducing austerity measures have helped pitch the country into a steep decline, with a second straight year of worsening recession, and record unemployment, prompting the plight of personal bankruptcy for many Portuguese families. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Portuguese face crushing debt

By Barry Hatton - Associated Press

A woman who said she was Maria Do Rosario Valente, the wife of U.S. fugitive George Wright, is seen outside the house where neighbors said Wright lived in Almocagema, Portugal, near Lisbon, on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Portuguese judge: U.S. fugitive won’t be extradited

By Barry Hatton - Associated Press

European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn addresses the media Feb. 23, 2012, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. The 17-nation eurozone economy will suffer a modest recession this year despite recent signs of stabilization, particularly in financial markets, the European Union's executive branch said Thursday. (Associated Press)

EU expects eurozone to suffer mild recession

By Gabriele Steinhauser and Pan Pylas - Associated Press

Despite austerity plan, revelers choose to celebrate Carnival

By Barry Hatton - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Lisbon’

By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times

Demonstrators march past Christmas decorations in downtown Lisbon on Wednesday on their way to the finance ministry. They are protesting the government's proposal to increase the hours of work in a week. Portugal needed a $103 billion bailout earlier this year as its high debt load pushed it close to bankruptcy. The government is enacting an austerity program of pay cuts and tax hikes. The posters say "Increase in the work hours is robbing in the salary." (Associated Press)

Economic worries dim Europe’s holiday spirit

By Barry Hatton - Associated Press

Officials from the eurozone countries — including (from left) Belgian Finance Minister Didier Reynders, Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado, Italian Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mario Monti, Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager, Maltese Finance Minister Tonio Fenech and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble — share a word during a round-table meeting in Brussels on the bloc's financial crisis on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Finance ministers in eurozone OK $10.7B Greek loan

By Don Melvin and Raf Casert - Associated Press

Economy Briefs

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Economy Briefs

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Enrique Serratosa poses after an interview with the Associated Press in Barcelona on Oct. 28, 2011. Serratosa, a 22-year-old university graduate from Barcelona, is one of many young Spanish professionals who are desperate to leave their crisis-ridden home country for a brighter future abroad. And like for many of his peers, Germany has become his dream destination. (Associated Press)

Germany invites skilled workers from Greece

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

Mr. Berlusconi attends a voting session at the lower chamber on Tuesday. Mr. Berlusconi won a much-watched vote Tuesday, but the result laid bare his lack of support in parliament as financial pressure from the eurozone debt crisis pummeled Italy. (Associated Press)

GHEI: Italy on the brink

By Nita Ghei - The Washington Times

George Wright is pictured while in custody in 1963 for the murder of a gas station owner in Wall, N.J., the year before. (Associated Press/New Jersey Department of Corrections)

U.S. fugitive’s wife: I didn’t know about his past

By Barry Hatton - Associated Press

Cape Verde singer Cesaria Evora ends career at 70

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Portugal. The Man loses gear in Chicago heist

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