Where will the money come from?
Spain is to get up to 100bn euros ($125bn; £80bn) in loans from eurozone funds to try to help shore up its struggling banks.
The move was agreed during emergency talks with eurozone finance ministers.
Spain's Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said his country would shortly make a formal request for assistance. He emphasised that the help would be for the financial system, not the economy as a whole. "This is not a rescue," he said.
"This is a loan which is given in very favourable conditions, which will be determined in the next few days. But they are very favourable - much more favourable than the market ones," Mr de Guindos told a news conference.
The Spanish government had been reluctant to ask for a bailout like the one given to Greece, Ireland and Portugal, as these rescue packages came with demands for spending cuts and stringent spending cuts.
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Where did the money come from?
As far as can be made out by the best experts, it appears the Tooth Fairy is the culprit.
No one else would be stupid enough to toss their hard earned money into a bottomless pit, never to be seen again.
It's Debka, so a second, confirmatory source on the story would be helpful.
A confessed Islamist stabbed two coppers Friday at an underground station in a Brussels neighborhood.
The two victims, a man and a woman did not sustain life-threatening wounds.
The attacker was quickly subdued and was found to be carrying documents connected to Shariah4Belgium, an beturbanned goonMohammedan group active in Belgium. He confessed to wanting to attack the police because of Belgium's attitude towards Mohammedans. Brussels recently outlawed the niqab for women in public.
(Sh.M.Network)- Two brothers have been tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in Denmark on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack.
The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) confirmed that the men, who are thought to have links with a Somali myrmidon Islamic group, were tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! on Monday, May 28.
According to PET, the arrests of the 18 and 23-year-old have "prevented a specific act of terrorism", as the men allegedly discussed the target, method and weapons for an attack. It also says one of the suspects attended an al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban... training camp in Somalia.
One of the brothers was tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in Aarhus, while the other was intercepted as he returned to Denmark throughCopenhagenAirport. Both have lived in Aarhus for 16 years, according to reports.
"A specific act of terrorism has been averted, and as such the perceived threat level against Denmark is not affected, although it remains high," PET said in a statement, adding that the men will appear in court the following week.
Denmarkhas been the target of several Islamists attacks since Jyllands-Posten newspaper published controversial cartoons of the holy Moslem Prophet Muhammad in 2005.
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