Spain seizes ship in treasure row
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Spain's Civil Guard seizes a boat operated by a US company amid a row over treasure from a shipwreck.
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Pirates hijack a Russian tug off the coast of Somalia and hold the crew captive, officials say.
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DIVERS off the Welsh coast may have found the wreck of a ship from the last foreign invasion of mainland Britain, over 200 years ago.
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A stolen 15th century map dating to the dawn of modern printing, a decade before Christopher Columbus sailed to America, was returned to Spain on Monday.
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The Spanish police captured two men suspected of being members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA, said the Interior Ministry on Friday.
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The Spanish authorities claim to have foiled a high-profile terrorist attack with the arrests of a group of mainly Algerian radical Muslims.
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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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The Spanish galleon San Jose was trying to outrun a fleet of British warships off Colombia's coast on June 8, 1708, when a mysterious explosion sent it to the bottom of the sea with gold, silver and emeralds now valued at more than $2 billion.
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A BOAT containing 10 bodies was found today by a merchant navy vessel 480km south of the Spanish Canary Island of Gran Canaria, a maritime rescue spokesman said.
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Pirates hijack a ship off the coast of Somalia, in the latest of a series of similar incidents in the area.
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"Spain has decided to go to (the) courts to claim its right in case the discovery is Spanish"  The Spanish government said Thursday it has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against an American firm over a shipwreck the company has found laden with a colonial-era treasure.If the vessel was Spanish or was removed from Spanish waters, any treasure would belong to Spain, Spain says.'Odyssey Marine Exploration has been requested in a letter to provide information concerning the identity of the ship and the material recovered, and has not responded with the details we were asking for,' said Susana Tello, Culture Ministry spokeswoman. Read more
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A small Spanish fishing boat netted more than it bargained for this week when it hauled up 23 bales of hashish instead of the usual batch of anchovies.
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A 16th Century painting by artist El Greco, valued at Â£500,000, is discovered in an envelope in Spain.
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Crew members on a tugboat seized by pirates off the Somali coast are unharmed and have access to food and water, the ship's Danish owner said Wednesday.
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The Spanish government has filed claims in U.S. federal court over a shipwreck that a Florida firm found laden with colonial-era treasure, an attorney said Thursday.
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A Spanish court on Friday ordered the seizure of all copies of a weekly satirical magazine which printed a caricature on its cover depicting Crown Prince Felipe and his wife Princess Letizia having sex.
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OSLO/NEW YORK  - U.S.-Norwegian Royal Caribbean   Cruises Ltd. RCL.OL RCL.N agreed on Thursday to buy Spain's   biggest cruise and tour operator, Pullmantur S.A., for 430   million euros ($552 million) to boost operations in the   lucrative European cruise market.