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Debris of the crashed Germanwings passenger jet is scattered on the mountain side near Seyne les Alpes, French Alps, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. The Germanwings passenger jet carrying at least 150 people crashed Tuesday in a snowy, remote section of the French Alps, sounding like an avalanche as it scattered pulverized debris across the mountain. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

France cracks open plane’s black box, seals off crash site

By Greg Keller and Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

Leticia Moreno, Spanish violinist, to make National Symphony Orchestra debut

By Emily Cary - Special to The Washington Times

The feast of events in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall begins Thursday, when Maestro Jesus Lopez-Cobos, a native of Spain, conducts the National Symphony Orchestra in a program of "fado" or folk music that defines the people of Iberia and their culture. rule (Associated Press)

Kennedy Center celebrates the culture from the Iberian peninsula

By Emily Cary - Special to The Washington Times

Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, denies Greek counterpart’s ‘overthrow’ claim

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, June 23, 2010 photo, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announces in Canberra, Australia, that his party has called a leadership vote just months away from national elections. Australia will have its first woman prime minister on Thursday, as Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has enough support to beat incumbent Kevin Rudd in a Labor Party ballot, several media outlets have reported. (AP Photo/AAP Image, Alan Porritt) **FILE**

DAVID KREUTZER: Australia’s wind-power market deflates

By David W. Kreutzer

'Tick Tock' Pablo Iglesias, leader of Spanish Podemos party, says time is running out for unpopular austerity measures. He hopes to emulate the electoral success of Greece's Syriza party. (Associated Press)

Podemos, Spain anti-austerity party, sees surge in support after Syriza win in Greece

By Meritxell Mir - Special to The Washington Times

President of European Central Bank Mario Draghi speaks during a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, following a meeting of the ECB governing council. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

PETER MORICI: Printing money won’t save moribund European economies

By Peter Morici

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U.S. seeks permanent Marine base in Spain: report

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A still from a home video shows gunmen firing their weapons outside the newspaper Charlie Hebdo's Paris office. (Associated Press)

Paris newspaper shooting exposes rift in Muslim-Europe relationships

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration on Obama's new policy toward Cuba by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency

LAWRENCE J. FEDEWA: Viva Cuba!

By Lawrence J. Fedewa

Former Vice President Al Gore has attracted some presidential attention this week following Hillary Clinton's political challenges.

Al Gore gets lyrical, recites Chinese poetry at U.N. climate conference

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Spanish news to vanish from Google News globally

By Alan Clendenning - Associated Press

An art show to hook all kinds: José-María Cundín

By Rita Lebeau - Associated Press

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, foreground, flanked by Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger, left, and Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, announces the naming of a fast-attack submarine after the state of Vermont during a ceremony Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014, in Burlington, Vt. The USS Vermont is the first U.S. Navy vessel to be named after the Green Mountain State in more than 100 years. (AP Photo/Burlington Free Press, Ryan Mercer) NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT; TV OUT; INTERNET OUT

Navy secretary racks up 930K miles in world travel

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Spanish jobless figure drops as economy picks up

Associated Press

People walk past an advert calling for financial help to fight Ebola in Africa on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 in Madrid downtown, Spain. A Spanish hospital official says the nursing assistant Teresa Romero, infected with Ebola, is &quot;stable,&quot; hours after authorities described her condition as critical. Romero is the first person known to have caught the disease outside the outbreak zone in West Africa, contracting the virus while helping treat a Spanish missionary who became infected in West Africa, and later died. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

Spain P.M. visits hospital treating Ebola patient

By Ciaran Giles - Associated Press

A fireman gestures, bottom right, as workers wearing rompers and gloves come out of the entrance of the apartment building of a Spanish nurse infected with Ebola in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Three more people were placed under quarantine for Ebola at a Madrid hospital where the Spanish nurse became infected, authorities said Thursday. More than 50 other possible contacts were being monitored. The nurse, who had cared for a Spanish priest who died of Ebola, was the first case of Ebola being transmitted outside of West Africa, where a months-long outbreak has killed at least 3,500 people and infected at least twice as many. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Sierra Leone strike halts burial of Ebola dead

By Clarence Roy-Macaulay - Associated Press

An ambulance transporting a Spanish nurse who believed to have contracted the ebola virus from a 69-year-old Spanish priest leaves Alcorcon Hospital in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. The nurse who treated a missionary for the disease at a Madrid hospital tested positive for the virus, Spain's health minister said Monday. The female nurse was part of the medical team that treated a 69-year-old Spanish priest who died in a hospital last month after being flown back from Sierra Leone, where he was posted. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Spain quarantines 3 more after nurse gets Ebola

By CIARAN GILES and MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press