Spanish intercept 33 clandestine immigrants after distress call
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Spanish coastguard towed a boatload of 33 would-be immigrants from Ivory Coast and Gambia into a Canary Islands port after they called for assistance by mobile phone, emergency services said.
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Two of Spain's most wanted terror suspects and at least 16 other alleged members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA were captured Sunday in a vast French-Spanish police operation, authorities said.
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Rescuers scoured the seas off the Canary Islands Thursday for around 50 illegal immigrants who went missing after their vessel capsized as it was trying to reach the Spanish archipelago, emergency services said.
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Police arrested 17 suspected members of  Basque separatist guerrilla group ETA in northern Spain on  Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said.
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Islamic radicals may have been plotting attacks in Barcelona, Spain's Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said on Saturday, after police found bomb-making materials and arrested 14 South Asians.
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Police in northern Spain have disarmed an explosive device after an unknown caller, claiming to represent the Basque separatist group ETA, warned that it had placed explosives at electricity pylons in the area.
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Spain's civil guard police arrested 14  suspected Islamist extremists in Barcelona on Saturday, Spanish  media reported, quoting Interior Ministry sources.
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MADRID -- Spanish police arrested 16 people yesterday on suspicion of recruiting volunteers to fight in Iraq and other countries.
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Anti-terrorism police question one man and five others are held on possible immigration breaches.
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Illegal immigrants lined up outside government offices and consulates, seeking documents to help them qualify for residency and work papers as Spain's biggest immigration reform ever went into effect.
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MARBELLA, Spain  - A tip-off hotline set up by a former British policeman on the Costa del Sol has nabbed three British criminals on the run in Spain and impressed local police looking for new ways to tackle organized crime.
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A tip-off hotline set up by a  former British policeman on the Costa del Sol has nabbed three  British criminals on the run in Spain and impressed local  police looking for new ways to tackle organized crime.
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Rather than scan all of society for recruits, Islamic militants in Spain have found that many of the most promising candidates have already been collected into one bountiful pool.
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Spanish security forces arrested 266 people described as "terrorists" last year, according to official figures.
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After more than 250 migrants were intercepted trying to reach the Canary Islands in a 24-hour period, Spain's interior minister said Thursday that more European help is needed to stop the surge in illegal immigrants from Africa.
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Spanish Civil Guard officers seized 33 tonnes of illegal Brazilian tropical wood in raids on a number of cities.
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French security forces have arrested 20 people suspected of being members of the outlawed Basque separatist group, Eta. Most were Spaniards living in the Basque region of south-western France.