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Bill and Melinda Gates Win Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
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In 2006, Spain awarded Bill and Melinda Gates the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation — one of the country's most prestigious honors, conferred by the Prince (now King) of Asturias — recognizing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's global work fighting disease and poverty. The Gateses said they accepted on behalf of the foundation's worldwide efforts, by then backed by an endowment of roughly $29 billion and more than $10 billion already donated to global health and development.
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