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• Ex-ETA killer freed from jail on group's 40th anniversary

  - 2008-08-02

  ARANJUEZ, Spain AFP — A former ETA member guilty of 25 murders was released from a Spanish jail Saturday, as the armed Basque separatist group marked its 40 anniversary. Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos served 20 years of an original 3,000 year sentence for the killings, which came in...

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• Italy curbs anti-immigration measures in face of attacks

  - 2008-05-19

  ROME AFP — Silvio Berlusconi's new Italian government has sought to deflect criticism over its hardline stance on immigrant illegality ahead of new rules being announced on Wednesday. The plans have brought a fiery attack from Spain, triggering a war of words between Rome and Madrid, but also worried...

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• One dead, four hurt in Spanish barracks bombing blamed on ETA

  - 2008-05-13

  MADRID AFP — A booby-trapped van exploded outside a civil guard barracks in Spain's restive Basque country on Wednesday, killing one guard and wounding four others, in an attack the government blamed on separatist group ETA. "ETA has taken another step with this horrific attack, which is especially evil...

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• Spain must brace for more ETA violence: interior minister

  - 2008-03-24

  MADRID AFP — Spain must brace for a long cycle of ETA violence, the country's interior minister warned Monday, two years to the day after the armed Basque separatist group launched an aborted ceasefire. "If ETA broke its truce, it was to go back to violence and for this...

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• Cycling boss urges Contador to attack over Tour exclusion

  - 2008-03-14

  MADRID AFP — Cycling boss Pat McQuaid on Friday promised to back reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador should he decide to take legal action over his exclusion with the Astana team from this year's race. The tour's organisers, Amaury Sport Organisation ASO, ruled on February 13 that...

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• ETA blast raises election tensions in Basque Country

  - 2008-02-23

  MADRID AFP — ETA exploded a small bomb Saturday in the Basque Country, prompting the Spanish government to warn of possible deadly attacks by the armed separatist group in the run-up to general elections. "We believe that ETA is going to try to kill before the elections," said Interior...

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• Thousands rally against ETA in Madrid after deadly attack

  - 2007-12-04

  MADRID AFP — Thousands of people protested against violence by the Basque separatist group ETA in Madrid on Tuesday, following the shooting death of one Spanish civil guard member and the wounding of another. It was the first time since Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero took office...

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• Court convicts 21 of Madrid bombings, but not alleged mastermind

  - 2007-10-31

  MADRID AFP — A Spanish court Wednesday convicted 21 people of involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, but acquitted an Egyptian accused of helping mastermind the Al Qaeda-inspired attack that claimed nearly 200 lives. The early morning bombings on four packed commuter trains on March 11, 2004 were...

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• New York unchanged after 9/11: Woody Allen

  - 2007-10-24

  MADRID AFP — New York has not changed since the September 11, 2001 attacks, Oscar-winning US film director Woody Allen said Wednesday during a radio interview in Spain. "I can't tell the difference between the New York of before and after the tragedy, unless you go to the airport...

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• ETA targets Spanish government building in failed car bomb

  - 2007-09-10

  MADRID AFP — Spanish security forces on Monday defused an ETA car bomb targeting a government building in northern Spain after its detonator failed to go off, one day after the Basque separatist group vowed to "keep striking", officials said. The car packed with about 80 kilogram (180 pounds)...

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