Landfill sites on the Iberian peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara desert to the western Sahel.

伊比利亚半岛上的垃圾填埋场长期以来一直吸引着当地的白鹳，但研究中标记的所有西班牙鸟类都飞越了撒哈拉沙漠，来到了萨赫勒的西部地区。

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Morocco took over the mineral-rich Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, in 1979.

1979年，摩洛哥接管矿产丰富的原西班牙殖民地西撒哈拉地区。

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In others, such as Western Sahara, a former Spanish possession whose bid to escape from Moroccan control has long divided the AU, a stalemate is set to persist, perhaps indefinitely.

撒哈拉西部非洲地区曾经是西班牙的殖民地。 非盟在它寻求脱离摩洛哥统治的问题上四分五裂。

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The defeat at the hands of the United States over Cuba in 1898 and the ignominious scramble from Spanish Sahara after Morocco invaded it in 1975 can still evoke feelings of embarrassment.

ECONOMIST: Wary Spaniards