Spain targets US treasure ships
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A Spanish court orders the capture of two US boats if they leave Gibraltar, amid a row over shipwreck treasure.
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Syrian-born arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar has been arrested in Spain and now faces extradition to the United States for trying to sell weapons to Colombian rebels, U.S. and Spanish authorities said on Friday.
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Authorities have arrested 52 people in a major crackdown on a suspected ring of antiquities looters from dozens of sites in southern Spain, the Spanish Civil Guard said Wednesday.
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The playground legal principle "Finders keepers, losers weepers" is being put to the test in an international dispute over what could be the richest sunken treasure ever found: 17 tons of silver coins brought up from a centuries-old shipwreck.
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Spain begins running TV  adverts in West Africa to try and deter migrants making dangerous boat crossings.
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A wealthy Syrian arms dealer previously accused of arming militants from Iraq to Somalia has been arrested in Spain on charges he plotted to supply millions of dollars worth of weapons to Colombian rebels, U.S. officials said Friday.
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U.S. military officials said Wednesday that a Navy ship recently fired on pirates who overtook a Danish vessel off Somalia's coast.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - The US military has stepped up activities in the pirate-infested waters off Somalia, going to the aid of hijacked cargo ships twice this week. American medics treated wounded North Korean sailors on one vessel, and the Navy was tracking another after destroying two pirate skiffs lashed to it.
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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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Two ground-to-air missiles are found in arms caches uncovered in raids against the Basque separatist group.
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Spain will host the United States on clay in Seville in the Davis Cup tennis finals December 3 to 5 as the Spaniards seek to win the trophy for the second time ever.
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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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Spain launched a drive Monday to win European support for a bid to include the traditional Mediterranean diet on a U.N. list of protected world cultural treasures.
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Oceana biologists and divers have documented accidental catches on board a Spanish fishing vessel.
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The Spanish navy advises ships in the busy Strait of Gibraltar to slow down to avoid hitting whales.
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MADRID, Sept. 3 -- Police caught nearly 1,200 people trying to reach the Canary Islands in overcrowded boats that set out from the West African country of Mauritania, setting a record for a weekend, officials said Sunday.
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A team of explorers sets sail from the US for Spain in a reed boat, aiming to prove the possibility of a pre-Columbus crossing.