Famed Spanish Chefs Walk Free in ETA Probe
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Two of Spain's most renowned chefs walked free from the High Court without charge on Monday after facing questions over allegations they paid protection money to the armed Basque separatists ETA.
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Accused French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel walked free after judges placed him under formal investigation Monday for his role in seven billion dollars of losses at Societe Generale but stopped short of charging him with fraud.
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At just 26, Josean Martinez Alija has notched up a shoal of honours and as the number one chef in residence at Bilbao's Guggenheim museum is the new rising star among an impressive culinary generation in Spain's Basque country.
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The photos said it all. Eyes downcast,  his face puffy, Spain&#39;s prime minister looked shattered by news  that Basque rebels ETA were ending their truce, a move that  dooms a key policy with elections looming next year.
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French police have carried out dawn raids to arrest 13 suspected Basque separatists for their involvement in an attack last year on a luxury hotel in southern France. Some 200 gendarmes took part in Monday's arrests, the French news agency AFP reported. Seven of the suspects are French and six are Spanish, officials said. Investigators suspect last year's attack was carried out by the Basque separatist group Eta or a French group sympathizing with Eta, a judicial source told Reuters news agency. Eta has waged a violent campaign since the 1960s for an independent state in north Spain and south-west France and called off a 15-month truce in June.
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BAYONNE, France Two of Spain&#39;s most wanted terrorism suspects and at least 16 others suspected of being members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA were captured Sunday in a French-Spanish police operation, the authorities said.
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Germany has cleared the way for the extradition to Spain of an Arab businessman long accused by the United States of financing al Qaeda and investigated
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Two of Spain&#39;s most wanted alleged terrorists and at least 16 other suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA were captured Sunday in a vast French-Spanish police operation, authorities said.
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An Algerian suspected of being a leader  of the Madrid train bombers has been identified as one of seven  people who blew themselves up in April to avoid arrest, Spain's  Interior Ministry said on Friday.
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SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain -- Call it prophetic or defeatist or just plain cynical. But when the Basque separatist group known as ETA shattered its so-called "permanent cease-fire" in December with a massive bombing at Madrid's airport that killed two people, former ETA leader and convicted killer Eduardo Uriarte was not surprised.
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Germany has cleared the way for the extradition to Spain of an Arab businessman long accused by the United States of financing al Qaeda and investigated by German authorities for links to the Sept.
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MADRID, Feb 8  (IPS) - Spanish Judge Baltasar GarzÃ³n on Friday barred two  small Basque country parties, considered political arms of ETA,  from taking part in politics for three years -- thus leaving the  armed separatist group without voice or vote in parliament and  without being able to hold public rallies or produce political  ads.
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Spanish police arrested two men for suspected links to armed Basque separatists ETA, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
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Morning Edition , January 26, 2005 In the eyes of many culinary experts, Spain is now the place for cutting edge cuisine.
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Spanish police arrested two men for  suspected links to armed Basque separatists ETA, the Interior  Ministry said on Saturday.
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Basque rebels ETA, who want independence from Spain, will end their ceasefire as of June 6, the armed separatists said in a communique released in Basque newspaper Berria on Tuesday.
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The alleged political leader of the armed Basque separatist group ETA and his partner were arrested Sunday along with 19 other accused ETA members during a police sweep in southwestern France, Spanish authorities said.