Basque militants display defiance
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Militants claiming to speak for Basque separatists Eta say the group will not give up arms until independence.
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France has vowed not to give in to the demands of terrorists who are holding two French journalists in Iraq. Militants calling themselves the Islamic Army in Iraq have said that they will release Georges Malbrunot
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Spain braced for fresh attacks by the armed Basque separatist group ETA on Wednesday, after the movement formally ended a 15-month ceasefire and vowed to resume its battle for an independent state.
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Rival Basque nationalist groups set aside their differences yesterday to push a controversial bill through the regional parliament making increased independence for the region a real possibility - and a showdown with Madrid almost inevitable.
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The armed Basque separatists Eta made their first conciliatory gesture for seven years yesterday, saying they were ready for talks, but the group's proposal fell short of an agreement to lay down arms.
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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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The armed Basque separatist group ETA claimed responsibility Friday for killing two Spanish policemen in France on December 1 and vowed to keep staging attacks, in a statement in the Basque press.
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Basque separatist group says it will restart campaign of violence that has claimed 850 lives.
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The armed Basque separatist group ETA showed it was not a spent force with Friday's coordinated attacks at five Madrid petrol stations, but it also further isolated the guerrillas' closest political allies, Batasuna.
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SPAIN MADRID -- Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told the Basque regional premier yesterday his plan for virtual independence from Madrid was a dead end and rejected any negotiations on the matter. But the Basque leader Juan Jose Ibarretxe remained defiant, saying that if his plan was rejected by Madrid he would still put it to the Basque ...
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Spain's Basque regional government called on armed separatist group ETA to renounce violence on Tuesday, stepping up political pressure on the severely weakened guerrillas to lay down their arms.
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Basque guerrillas ETA vowed on Sunday to  continue attacks on the Spanish state, saying last year&#39;s  exploratory peace talks showed there was no point in  negotiating with the government.
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Armed Basque separatist group returns to violence after 14 months.
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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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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 armed Basque separatist group ETA has backed a call for dialogue with the Spanish government put forward by its political wing.
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MADRID, Nov 4 (IPS) - The Basque separatist group ETA, which has received   severe blows in recent years, appears to be on the verge of  abandoning the  use of violence and instead seeking Basque  independence and unification  through peaceful means.