Bilbao, Spain - Suspected members of the militant Basque separatist group ETA on Thursday planted explosives near a Basque entrepreneur's home, causing slight material damage but no injuries, officials said.
The entrepreneur, who lives in the Basque locality of Amorebieta, was believed to be on ETA's hit list.
Several Basque entrepreneurs' associations condemned threats by ETA to business owners who refused to pay the group "revolutionary taxes."
Bilbao, Spain - Spanish Catholic bishops on Tuesday pursued their campaign against the planned liberalization of abortion, with Bilbao bishop Ricardo Blazquez slamming abortion as forming part of "a culture death" in "western civilization."
Abortion was comparable to terrorism, war, slavery or domestic violence, Blazquez, a former president of the Spanish Bishops' Conference, and his deputy said in a statement.
Bilbao, Spain - Spain's Basque region on Thursday looked increasingly likely to get its first pro-Spanish government as representatives of two mainstream Spanish parties met in Bilbao to discuss the formation of a new regional government.
The region suffering from the violence of the militant separatist group ETA has been governed by the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), which seeks looser ties with Spain, since it was granted a broad autonomy in 1979.
Bilbao, Spain - Talks to form a new government began Thursday in the Basque region of northern Spain, with Basque nationalists trying to hold onto power despite socialist success in Sunday's elections.
The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), which seeks greater autonomy from Spain, took the most votes, but did not get a sufficient majority to form a government with its former nationalist allies.
Bilbao, Spain - The militant Basque separatist group ETA criticized overnight Sunday's elections in Spain's Basque region, slamming them as undemocratic and as a "political fraud" in a communique sent to the newspaper Gara.
ETA urged the Basques to vote blank instead of electing a "fascist" regional parliament.
The elections will be the first ones without the participation of parties close to ETA after the Supreme Court barred two radical separatist formations from contesting them.
Bilbao, Spain - Suspected members of the militant Basque separatist group ETA on Thursday planted explosives near a Basque entrepreneur's home, causing slight material damage but no injuries, officials said.
Bilbao, Spain - Spanish Catholic bishops on Tuesday pursued their campaign against the planned liberalization of abortion, with Bilbao bishop Ricardo Blazquez slamming abortion as forming part of "a culture death" in "western civilization."
Bilbao, Spain - Spain's Basque region on Thursday looked increasingly likely to get its first pro-Spanish government as representatives of two mainstream Spanish parties met in Bilbao to discuss the formation of a new regional government.
Bilbao, Spain - The militant Basque separatist group ETA criticized overnight Sunday's elections in Spain's Basque region, slamming them as undemocratic and as a "political fraud" in a communique sent to the newspaper Gara.
