Madrid - Spain's Basque authorities have warned the regional police force that the militant Basque separatist group ETA may be planning an imminent large-scale attack against it, press reports said Thursday.
A part of ETA's Vizcaya complex, regarded as its most important structure, appears to have remained intact despite the arrests of 11 of its suspected members or collaborators, including its leader, last week, the Basque regional Interior Ministry wrote to the police force Ertzainza, instructing it to step up security.
ETA was thought to be planning an attack during some of the summer's regional festivities which draw large amounts of members of the public and police to protect them.
Madrid - Colombia will become the first Latin American country to participate in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, the Spanish daily El Pais reported Thursday.
Madrid - Spanish police have discovered an internet handbook for al-Qaeda's European cells on the use of remote-controlled bombs against international troops in Lebanon and Afghanistan, the radio station Cadena Ser reported Monday.
Madrid - Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos, considered one of the most brutal terrorists with the underground Basque movement ETA, was realised from jail on Saturday, triggering a call for a series of protests throughout Spain.
Madrid - Spain's Socialist government Friday offered "respect and loyalty" to the country's Catholic Church despite continuing disagreements between the two, Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said.
Madrid - The Spanish government said Friday it would not intervene "in any way" with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's decision to nationalize the local subsidiary of Spain's Banco Santander bank.
