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Somali pirates threaten to kill Spanish hostages

Reuters US Online Report World News 16 days ago

MADRID (Reuters) - Somali pirates have threatened to kill three captive crew members from a Spanish fishing vessel if two suspected pirates being held in Spain are not freed, a senior officer aboard the vessel said on Friday. The Spanish navy captured ...

Families of Spanish hostages urge negotiations

AFP Global Edition 16 days ago

Families of the crew of a Spanish tuna trawler being held by Somali pirates appealed to Spain's government on Friday to negotiate with the kidnappers, who have threatened to kill the hostages. They urged Spanish authorities to release two suspected Somali pirates ...

Obama asked Spain to deliver message to Cuba

Reuters US Online Report Politics News 28 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama asked Spain to pass Cuba a message on the need for democratic reform when he met Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero earlier this month, according to a U.S. official. Six days after their ...

Obama asks Spain to pass message to Cuba: report

AFP American Edition 28 days ago

US President Barack Obama asked Spain to send a message to Cuba urging its president Raul Castro to step up efforts to improve relations with Washington, a Madrid newspaper reported Sunday. "Tell Raul that if he does not take steps, neither can ...

ETA 'political chief' believed held in French raid

AFP Global Edition 34 days ago

Police on Monday arrested two suspected top ETA militants in France, including a man described by Madrid as the political leader of the armed Basque separatist group. Thirty-year-old Aitor Elizaran was arrested in a car park in the Brittany seaside town of ...

ETA 'political chief' believed held in raid: minister

AFP Global Edition 34 days ago

One of two suspected ETA members arrested Monday in France, Aitor Elizaran, is the "political chief" of the armed Basque separatist group, Spain's interior minister said. Elizaran, 30, was "in charge of transmitting ETA instructions to radical leftist separatists" in Spain's Basque ...

Suspect held in France is 'political chief of ETA': Spain

AFP Global Edition 34 days ago

One of the two suspected ETA members arrested Monday in France, Aitor Elizaran, is "the political chief" of the armed Basque separatist group, Spain's interior minister said. "According to information that the Civil Guard (police) has given me, he is the head ...

Cuba Spain

AP News 34 days ago

Spain's Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, right, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Jose Marti monument in Havana, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009. Moratinos is on a two-day official visit to Cuba. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano) Copyright 2009 AP News

Thousands protest arrests of Basque nationalists

AFP Global Edition 36 days ago

Thousands of people protested Saturday in the northern Spanish city of San Sebastian against the arrests of five Basque pro-independence militants. The demonstrators demanded the release of the five men, who are accused of trying rebuild Batasuna, the banned political wing of ...

Israeli Leaders Meet Spanish PM Zapatero

Getty Images 38 days ago

JERUSALEM - OCTOBER 15: In this handout image supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adjust their earpieces during a joint news conference at Netantahu's residence on ...

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