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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Spanish security forces arrested 266 people described as "terrorists" last year, according to official figures.
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Illegal immigrants are vulnerable and at risk from those offering help Italian police say they have broken up a gang suspected of kidnapping illegal immigrants and holding them for ransom.Comment
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Spanish police and the FBI arrested two Pakistani nationals in a joint operation in Madrid and Barcelona on suspicion of being involved in financing international terrorism, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.
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Spanish police found material for making explosives and bombs in raids Saturday in Barcelona, which also led to the arrests of 14 people in connection with a suspected radical Islamist terror network, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.
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Spanish police arrested four Moroccans  on suspicion of belonging to an armed Islamic group, including  one man believed linked to the March 11 train bombings that  killed 191 people, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
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Spanish authorities in Barcelona arrest 14 people suspected of having links to Islamist terror groups.
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The Spanish security services arrested this Tuesday in a southern suburbs of Madrid four members of a family, suspected of being involved in the terrorist attacks of Madrid last March 11.
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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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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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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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Four men arrested on suspicion of organizing terrorist training camps in Britain were tracked by Spanish investigators earlier this year as they traveled through Spain from France en route to North Africa, officials said Monday.
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The Spanish coast guard intercepted a drifting boat of would-be immigrants from Africa on Thursday and found 30 dehydrated survivors standing atop 13 bodies in what emergency service officials described as a scene of "horror."
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Around 400 illegal immigrants flocked onto the Italian island of Lampedusa, bringing to more than 800 the number of boat-people landing on the tiny Mediterranean outpost in a 24-hour period, a coastguard ...
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The Spanish authorities detain 176 illegal immigrants who tried to reach the Canary Islands by ship.
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Security forces captured more than 200 Africans trying to reach Spanish shores in small boats Wednesday, as a government official denied that a new plan to give residency papers to many illegal immigrants was ...
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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.