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VIDEO: Drone footage shows migrants' arrival September 23, 2015
Matthew Price looks at one of the Greek hotspots for migrants entering Europe.
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VIDEO: The Olympian who never gave up September 23, 2015
In 1992, 400m medal hopeful Derek Redmond pulled up injured in the semi-final of the Barcelona Olympics, but still finished the race.
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VIDEO: Football legend Pele at 75 September 23, 2015
Football legend Pele is 75 this year. He talked to the BBC about what inspires him and what he makes of football today.
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VIDEO: Pope Francis lands to cheers in US September 22, 2015
President Obama and his Family have greeted Pope Francis upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
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VIDEO: Lesbos struggles as 4,000 arrive daily September 22, 2015
The Greek island of Lesbos is still struggling to keep up with the steady flow of migrants and refugees.
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VIDEO: How much does making a drug cost? September 22, 2015
As Turing Pharmaceuticals raises the price of an Aids treatment, Daraprim, BBC News looks at how the pharmaceutical industry tries to balance the pursuit of profit with a patient's need to access medication.
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VIDEO: Refugee crisis: Food and phone charging September 22, 2015
The BBC's Mark Lowen reports from a sports stadium on the Turkey-Greece border where agencies are providing shelter and food to refugees trying to reach Europe.
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VIDEO: On the ground at refugee hotspots September 22, 2015
EU ministers have approved a controversial plan to relocate 120,000 refugees and migrants across the EU using compulsory quotas.
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VIDEO: A guide to strange initiation ceremonies September 22, 2015
Initiation ceremonies are in the news, here are some of the stranger ones from around the world.
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SPAIN, in South West Europe, has a population of about 40 million (03/2007) and stretches on 492,000 km. About 1.2%, half a million, are Muslims. The prominent group of Muslims in SPAIN is from Moroccan descent.
SPAIN is ruling also two small enclaves Ceuta, just on the African side of the Gibraltar strait and Melilla on the Moroccan Mediterranean coast of Africa. Thousands of immigrants, most of them Muslims, encroach the borders from Morocco to these enclaves which are legally Spanish. SPAIN is lately building electronic fences to stop the illegal immigration through the two enclaves.
In the 10th and 11th centuries SPAIN, Al Andalus as the Arabs called SPAIN, was a center of Islamic and Arabic culture and an example of good cooperation and tolerance between Christian, Jews and Muslims which brought to many achievements in all fields of life.
After centuries of wars between Christians and Muslims the Muslims were expelled from SPAIN, along with the Jews in 1492.
SPAIN is a Democracy since 1976 and a senior member in the European Union. The main problem of SPAIN, currently, is the very low birth rate and a larger number of older people which forces SPAIN to accept large numbers of immigrants in order to keep up with the economical growth. Therefore SPAIN has a very liberal and tolerant approach to all immigrants to the country.
Besides a short alliance with USA in Iraq war on 2003-2004 SPAIN have no serious conflicts with any other country in the world except a minor dispute with Morocco over some rocks in the Mediterranean coast of Morocco.
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