Suspected Al-Qaeda members held in Spain
August 2nd, 2012 - 11:58 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, Aug 2 (IANS/RIA Novosti) At least three suspected members of the Al Qaeda terrorist group have been arrested and explosives and poisonous substances that could be used in ... Read more...
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British mom kills kids, spends night with bodies
June 19th, 2012 - 7:51 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 19 (IANS) A British woman faces at least 38 years in prison on charges of killing her two children while they slept in a hotel room in Spain ... Read more...
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Woman plunges 80ft while throwing a spider
May 31st, 2012 - 12:03 am ICT by IANS
London, May 30 (IANS) A young woman, who fell 80 ft from a hotel balcony in Majorca, an island in the Mediterranean, was trying to throw a spider out ... Read more...
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Gangsters kill rival, ‘eat him for lunch’
March 23rd, 2012 - 9:58 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 23 (IANS) Serbian gangsters beat a gang member to death with a hammer, skinned and boned him with a sharp knife then put him through a meat grinder ... Read more...
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Suspect in murder of Mexican ex-general arrested
March 3rd, 2012 - 11:58 am ICT by IANS
Madrid, March 3 (IANS/EFE) Spanish police have arrested a Mexican woman accused in her country of commissioning the May 2011 murder of a top retired military officer.The woman, identified only ... Read more...
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Armed robbers who targeted brothels arrested
February 29th, 2012 - 11:37 am ICT by IANS
Madrid, Feb 29 (IANS/EFE) Spanish police arrested 11 people, two of them minors, as suspects in several brothel robberies in the capital.The arrested people, all of them Latin Americans, pretended ... Read more...
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McCanns’ release jigsaw image of Madeleine
December 22nd, 2011 - 10:21 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, Dec 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The McCanns are still pleading with the public to volunteer information to help them locate daughter Madeleine. The girl has been missing since the 3rd of May ... Read more...
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Spain busts gang that hid drugs in babies’ diapers
November 29th, 2011 - 11:12 am ICT by IANS
Madrid, Nov 29 (IANS/EFE) Spanish police, with the collaboration of Belgian and Dutch authorities, broke up a gang that used children and babies to smuggle cocaine into Europe by plane ... Read more...
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Eva Peron’s jewelry recovered
June 24th, 2011 - 1:00 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Venice, June 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Italian police have announced that they have recovered the stolen jewels of former Argentine first lady Eva Peron. The jewels were stolen from a shop in Spain ... Read more...
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Wildfire rages on Spanish island of Ibiza
May 27th, 2011 - 11:56 am ICT by IANS
Palma de Mallorca (Spain), May 27 (IANS/EFE) A wildfire on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza has scorched some 1,500 hectares of pine forest and prompted the evacuation of 80 homes ... Read more...
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Man held for killing wife, showing body with webcam
April 6th, 2011 - 11:21 am ICT by IANS
Madrid, April 6 (IANS/EFE) A man who strangled his pregnant wife and showed her dead body to his father in Romania using a webcam has been arrested here, authorities said.The ... Read more...
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Spain reduces jail term of Indian terror accused
January 19th, 2011 - 6:42 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court of Spain has reduced the jail term of Mumbai-born businessman Roshan Jamal Khan from eight and half years to six years for alleged terror links, ... Read more...
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25 arrested for running cocaine lab in Spain
January 19th, 2011 - 11:51 am ICT by IANS
Madrid, Jan 19 (IANS/EFE) Spanish police dismantled the largest known cocaine laboratory in Europe near Madrid in an operation that resulted in 25 arrests.The illegal lab had been set up on a ... Read more...
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Spanish woman stages fake abduction to ‘test hubby’
December 29th, 2010 - 5:06 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 29 (ANI): There are many ways to test your husband's love but for one Spanish woman, what she did went a little too far.The unnamed woman faked her own kidnap ... Read more...
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Spanish Woman Fakes Own Kidnapping to Test Her Husband
December 28th, 2010 - 10:20 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Dec 28 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A woman has been detained by the Spanish police after she faked her own kidnapping in an effort to test whether her husband cared enough about her to ... Read more...
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Spain takes down ring that forged documents for terrorists (Lead)
December 2nd, 2010 - 11:20 am ICT by IANS
Madrid, Dec 2 (IANS/EFE) Spanish and Thai authorities mounted a joint operation to dismantle a cell that produced false travel documents for groups linked to Al Qaeda, officials said here Wednesday.Seven people ... Read more...
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Spain detains two Colombians suspected of 200 killings
September 14th, 2010 - 6:23 pm ICT by IANS
Valencia (Spain), Sep 14 (DPA) Spanish police have captured two Colombian suspected hitmen wanted for involvement in more than 200 killings, police said Tuesday.
The suspects, who were also charged with abductions and ... Read more...
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EU police may soon have snooping powers over UK
July 26th, 2010 - 5:00 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 26 (ANI): European police could soon have the power to spy on people in Britain under sweeping new regulations.Campaign group Fair Trials International said that under the new rules it ... Read more...
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178 Arrests Made In Global Credit Card Scam
June 16th, 2010 - 2:16 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
June 15 (THAINDIAN NEWS) After an investigation which went on for two years in the case of a global credit card scam which began in Spain, the police in 14 different countries ... Read more...
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Moroccan drug ring uses divers to smuggle hashish to Spain
June 10th, 2010 - 5:28 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, June 10 (DPA) Spanish police have discovered a drug ring using divers to help bring hashish from Morocco to Spain, police said Thursday, describing the method as unprecedented.
The ring transported drug ... Read more...
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Spanish Viagra Robber Nabbed By Cops
April 2nd, 2010 - 7:34 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Madrid, Apr 2, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Spanish police recently revealed that they have succeeded at detaining a man who was suspected of looting at least 10 pharmacy outlets at gunpoint. ... Read more...
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The Spanish Police Detain A Robber Of Viagra
April 2nd, 2010 - 6:46 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
April 2, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Spanish police personnel have voiced that they have apprehended a male robber. He was suspected of being involved in the thievery of 10 pharmacies at ... Read more...
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British boy reunited with family in Pakistan after kidnapping
March 18th, 2010 - 4:28 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 18 (DPA) A five-year-old British boy who was released by his kidnappers in Pakistan after the family paid a ransom in Europe was reunited with his father Thursday, the British ... Read more...
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Freed Brit toddler re-unites with father in Islamabad
March 18th, 2010 - 4:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar.18 (ANI): The kidnapped five-year-old British kid Sahil Saeed, who was released on Tuesday, was re-united with his father at the British High Commission in Islamabad on Thursday.Sahil was kidnapped at ... Read more...
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Major Malware group bust in Spain
March 4th, 2010 - 11:38 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Madrid, Mar 4 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There has been a major malware group bust in Spain. The Spanish authorities have gotten hold of one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers ... Read more...
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Spain to extradite Argentine accused in `death flights’
January 19th, 2010 - 11:48 am ICT by IANS
Madrid, Jan 19 (IANS/EFE) Spain's national court has ruled in favour of extraditing an Argentine pilot accused of taking part in the "death flights" the South American country's 1976-1983 military regime used ... Read more...
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Dead actor’s dad loses faith in British justice
December 14th, 2009 - 5:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 14 (ANI): The father of actor Mark Blanco, who died under mysterious circumstances after a tiff with rocker Pete Doherty at a bash, says has lost faith in Britain.Toni ... Read more...
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Spanish drug ring smuggled hashish underneath sleeping babies
August 26th, 2009 - 7:12 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, Aug 26 (DPA) Spanish police have dismantled one of the country's most active drug rings, which smuggled hashish in prams with sleeping babies inside, police said Wednesday.
The suspects tried to introduce ... Read more...
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Police arrest 20 after Barcelona victory party riots (Lead)
May 28th, 2009 - 1:48 pm ICT by IANS
Barcelona, May 28 (DPA) Spanish police Thursday arrested more than 20 people as rioters disrupted more than 100,000 football fans celebrating FC Barcelona's Champions League victory in Barcelona's city centre.
A group of ... Read more...
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Top ETA leader held in France
April 20th, 2009 - 3:28 am ICT by IANS
Paris, Apil 20 (EFE) A top leader of the Basque terrorist group (ETA) has been arrested by security forces in southeastern France, authorities said Sunday.
Jurdan Martitegui Lizaso, who is believed to be ... Read more...
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Burglar robs fellow detenus in police station
February 5th, 2009 - 7:50 pm ICT by IANS
Alicante (Spain), Feb 5 (DPA) A man who has been arrested for burgling a house robbed his fellow detainees at a police station a few hours later, Spanish police said Thursday in ... Read more...
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Indian arrested in Spain, India seeks consular access (Third Lead)
February 4th, 2009 - 10:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) India has sought consular access to an Indian arrested in Spain allegedly for forgery and links with international criminal networks.The government has already sought consular access to ... Read more...
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One Indian held in Spain, Al Qaeda link not clear
February 4th, 2009 - 8:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Only one Indian has been arrested in Spain for forgery and shadowy links with international criminal networks, the government clarified here Wednesday. New Delhi has already sought ... Read more...
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Indians among Al Qaeda suspects arrested in Spain: reports
February 4th, 2009 - 5:12 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 4 (IANS) Up to 15 people, including at least one Indian, have been arrested by Spanish police over alleged links with Al Qaeda, according to European media networks.The suspects, who ... Read more...
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Six Pakistanis arrested in Spain on charges of aiding terror groups
January 21st, 2009 - 6:43 pm ICT by ANI
Madrid, Jan 21 (ANI): Six Pakistani nationals have been arrested on suspicion of tax fraud and investigation is going on whether they diverted funds to Islamic terror groups
A foreign news agency ... Read more...
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