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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After more than 250 migrants were intercepted trying to reach the Canary Islands in a 24-hour period, Spain's interior minister said Thursday that more European help is needed to stop the surge in illegal immigrants from Africa.
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French security forces have arrested 20 people suspected of being members of the outlawed Basque separatist group, Eta. Most were Spaniards living in the Basque region of south-western France.
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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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Police claim to have disrupted one of the biggest gangs smuggling illigal immigrants
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Spanish security forces arrested 266 people described as "terrorists" last year, according to official figures.
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Spanish authorities in Barcelona arrest 14 people suspected of having links to Islamist terror groups.
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Politics: 18 September 2004, Saturday. Spanish police has arrested dozens of people suspected to have established and acted in a criminal group dealing with robberies and women trafficking.
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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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Spanish police arrested three people on Thursday suspected of aiding the escape of Islamic militants after the 2004 Madrid train bombings, police said.
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MADRID (International Herald-Tribune) - The authorities arrested six North Africans in Spain on Wednesday on suspicion of belonging to an international network that promotes jihad on the Internet and recruits fighters, the Interior Ministry announced. Spain's rural police force, Guarda Civil, said it detained five men and a woman in Burgos Province in northern Spain. Authorities searched six houses and a butcher's shop run by the men and confiscated documents and computer hard drives, the ministry said in its statement.
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Spanish authorities rescued more than 200 would-be migrants on Saturday from a decrepit fishing boat found drifting off the Canary Islands, officials said.
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Spanish police arrested three people on Saturday for suspected links to the armed Basque separatist group ETA, officials said.
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Spain says it has intercepted boats taking almost 250 presumed African migrants to the Canary Islands.
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Spanish police arrested 10 people in an operation against "Islamic terrorism" on Wednesday, a court source said.
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Seventeen suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA were arrested throughout Spain in pre-dawn raids Tuesday, the EFE agency reported.
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Spanish security forces arrested 266 people described as "terrorists" last year, says Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso.