Spain

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Spanish football shaken by match-fixing allegations

Madrid  - Spanish football has always taken pride in avoiding the kind of match-fixing scandals that have so afflicted Italy and other countries.

No major players have ever been banned, let alone jailed, and no clubs have ever been relegated for fixing results.

There have occasionally been rumours and whispers of attempted bribery, but practically nothing has ever reached the public domain.

Until now, that is.

This week La Liga has been shaken up by two separate allegations of match-fixing.

Spanish court may widen probe into US flights to Guantanamo

SpainMadrid - Prosecutors at Spain's National Court on Thursday asked judge Ismael Moreno to widen his investigation into alleged US flights transporting terrorism suspects via Spain to the prison camp in Guantanamo, Cuba.

The prosecutors urged Moreno to question the author of a top secret Foreign Ministry document which was published by the daily El Pais.

The 2002 document indicates that former prime minister Jose Maria Aznar's conservative government gave the United States permission to secretly transport Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners from Afghanistan via Spain to Guantanamo.

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