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      <news:title>Foreign Affairs reserves 800,000 euros for party foundations in global democracy promotion projects</news:title>
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      <news:title>Parlem Telecom renews its corporate website and will take the change of statutes to the board</news:title>
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      <news:title>Provisional prison for the man who allegedly killed his wife in Arguedas (Navarra)</news:title>
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      <news:title>The Government promotes works in the O Burgo estuary to face climate change and sea-level rise</news:title>
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    <lastmod>2026-05-21T13:08:35+02:00</lastmod>
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      <news:title>The Board intensifies almost 500 inspections in the field to guarantee the start of crops against thrips</news:title>
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      <news:title>Grenergy seals with CATL the supply of batteries for its large storage projects in Spain</news:title>
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      <news:title>The leader of the PSOE in Murcia makes the motion of no confidence in Cartagena conditional on what its membership decides</news:title>
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      <news:title>United Arab Emirates advances halfway in its alternative pipeline to the Strait of Hormuz</news:title>
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    <loc>https://www.democrata.es/en/economy/the-airef-raises-to-1-4-million-the-beneficiaries-of-the-recovery-plan-and-places-the-train-as-the-main-investment-destination/</loc>
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      <news:title>The AIReF raises to 1.4 million the beneficiaries of the Recovery Plan and places the train as the main investment destination</news:title>
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    <lastmod>2026-05-21T13:06:58+02:00</lastmod>
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      <news:title>Covite denounces as fraudulent the third-degree releases for the ETA members Juan Antonio Olarra and Xabier Zabalo</news:title>
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      <news:title>The Community registers almost 9,400 CAP aid applications for the 2026 campaign</news:title>
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    <lastmod>2026-05-21T13:02:58+02:00</lastmod>
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      <news:title>Expansion | Enrique Santiago questions Rufián's proposal and warns of the weight of egos and hyper-leadership</news:title>
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    <lastmod>2026-05-21T13:02:41+02:00</lastmod>
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      <news:title>Expansion | Enrique Santiago questions Rufián's proposal and warns of the weight of egos in the state left</news:title>
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      <news:title>Enrique Santiago questions Rufián's proposal and warns of the risk of excessive egos on the left</news:title>
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    <lastmod>2026-05-21T13:00:43+02:00</lastmod>
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      <news:title>Deaf man lashes out at the "perverse system" that takes public housing to the private market</news:title>
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      <news:title>The PP will focus the Senate's SEPI commission on the ruling about Zapatero and will call his secretary and Escrivá</news:title>
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