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Two-time Stanley Cup winner Pavel Datsyuk of SKA St. Petersburg, right, and Yevgeni Medvedev of Avangard Omsk help former Manchester United coach Jose Mourinho, center, to get up after falling down making the first puck drop at Monday's Kontinental Hockey League game between Avangard Omsk and SKA St. Petersburg in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Former Manchester United coach has ceremonially opened an ice hockey game in Russia _ and promptly fallen on the ice. (AP Photo/Dmitry Golubovich)

Mourinho accepts guilty plea for tax fraud in Spain

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, former regional Catalan President Carles Puigdemont speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Puigdemont's resident in Waterloo, near Brussels, after he fled from Spain to avoid arrest following Catalonia’s failed secession bid in 2017. Puigdemont says that Spain will be seeking “vengeance” instead of justice when 12 of his separatist allies stand trial next week. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

AP Interview: Puigdemont says Catalan trial ‘vengeance’

By RENATA BRITO and JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters gather for the start of a nationwide demonstration demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Momentum is growing for Venezuela's opposition movement led by lawmaker Juan Guaido, who has called supporters back into the streets for nationwide protests Saturday, escalating pressure on embattled Maduro to step down. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The Latest: Thousands rally in Spain to support Guaido

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Demonstrators hold esteladas, or independence flags, as they gather in support of the imprisoned Catalan politicians outside the Brians II prison, in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Feb.1, 2019. Authorities are transferring nine politicians and activists from prisons in Catalonia to the country's capital, Madrid, ahead of a high-stakes trial for their role in an attempt to break Spain's territorial unity. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Catalan separatists transferred to Madrid as key trial nears

By EMILIO MORENATTI and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold esteladas, or independence flags, as they gather in support of the imprisoned Catalan politicians outside the Brians II prison, in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Feb.1, 2019. Spanish authorities transferred nine politicians and activists on Friday from prisons in Catalonia to the country's capital, Madrid, ahead of a high-stakes trial for their part in an attempt to secede from Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

The Latest: Catalan secession activists demand EU’s support

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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez delivers a speech at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrea Comas)

Spain condemns media arrests in Venezuela

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The Latest: Fulham signs winger Markovic from Liverpool

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Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, left, shakes hands with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during a photo opportunity at the National Palace in Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019. Sanchez is on an official visit to Mexico. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico, Spain discuss differing stances toward Venezuela

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Spanish police arrest 37 in drug bust in south and Madrid

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Spain’s unemployment rate drops to 10-year low

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019 file photo, people gather during a protest against Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro and in support of an opposition leader self-proclaimed as the interim president of the country in Madrid, Spain. Banners reads in Spanish: &quot;Freedom&quot; and &quot;Out Maduro&quot;. Venezuela has seen an enormous outflow of people in recent years as its economy and democratic institutions have crumbled. Now many of these Venezuelans living abroad are anxiously watching events unfold in Caracas and wondering if they may soon be able to go home. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Venezuelans abroad anxiously watch events unfolding at home

By VICENTE MARQUEZ - Associated Press

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez delivers a speech at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrea Comas)

The Latest: Venezuelan military attache breaks with Maduro

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FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018 file photo, referee Jose Maria Sanchez Martinez checks the Video Assistant Referee VAR during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. The video review system’s debut in its first season in Spain had not prompted major discussions early on, but two controversial decisions involving powerhouses Real Madrid and Barcelona were enough to make it a hot topic. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort, File)

Spain not immune to problems in VAR’s debut season

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

This image from video provided by Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles shows an impact flash on the moon, bottom left, during the lunar eclipse which started on Sunday evening, Jan. 20, 2019. Spanish astrophysicist Jose Maria Madiedo of the University of Huelva said Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, it appears a rock from a comet slammed into the moon. (Griffith Observatory via AP)

Telescopes capture moment of impact during eclipse of moon

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Spanish government loses vote with budget fight looming

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Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo reacts during the match against AC Chievo Verona, during their Italian Serie A soccer match Juventus FC vs AC Chievo Verona at Allianz stadium in Turin, Italy, Monday Jan. 21, 2019. (Alessandro Di Marco/ANSA via AP)

Cristiano Ronaldo pleads guilty to tax fraud at Madrid court

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

Christen Press scores and US women down Spain 1-0

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Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo controls the ball during of the Italian Super Cup final soccer match between AC Milan and Juventus at King Abdullah stadium in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. (AP Photo)

Ronaldo to plead guilty to tax fraud in Madrid court

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

A tank of Venezuelan Bolivarian National Army moves inside the Military base Paramacay in Valencia, Venezuela, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. Venezuelan ruling party chief Diosdado Cabello said the military squashed a "terrorist" attack at the military base Sunday, shortly after a small group of men dressed in military fatigues released a video declaring themselves in rebellion.(AP Photo/Juan Carlos Hernandez)

Pedro Sanchez Venezuela tank deal props up Nicolas Maduro

By Martin Arostegui — Special to The Washington Times

Drill machines and excavating machinery work on top of the mountain, top left, next to a deep borehole to reach a 2-year-old boy trapped there for six days near the town of Totalan in Malaga, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019. Authorities in southern Spain say that they hope to reach the spot where they believe the two-year-old boy who fell in a borehole six days ago is trapped in approximately 35 hours. Th,e leading engineer coordinating the search-and-rescue operation says Saturday that the estimate depends on everything &quot;going favorably.&quot; (AP Photo/Gregorio Marrero)

Hard terrain slows rescue of Spanish boy trapped in borehole

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