Suspected car bomb in northern Spanish city

October 4th, 2009 Spain: hijacked fishing boat makes port in SomaliaMADRID — A hijacked trawler has been taken to port in Somalia with pirates still in charge of the vessel, the Spanish government said Sunday. The Spanish-owned fishing boat Alakrana was hijacked by pirates early Friday.

September 14th, 2009 LDS Church releases Spanish-language Bible editionSALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is publishing its own edition of a Spanish-language Bible. It's the first time the Mormon church has published an edition of the Bible in a language other than English.

August 9th, 2009 Spanish media: small bomb explodes in MallorcaMADRID —Spanish media say a small bomb has exploded in a restaurant on the island of Mallorca after a telephone warning from Basque separatist group ETA, and that no one was hurt in the blast. The attack was staged just hours after ETA published a statement claiming responsibly for four other bombings that killed three people and injured dozens this summer.

August 6th, 2009 Spanish police arrest alleged ETA memberMADRID — A suspected member of the armed Basque group ETA was deported from Mexico on Thursday and arrested in Spain, where he is wanted for allegedly killing five Spanish police officers and a pregnant wife of one of the officers. A police statement said Juan Manuel Inciarte Gallardo, 55, was taken into custody at Madrid airport when he arrived on a flight from Mexico City, where he had been living illegally.

July 30th, 2009 Spanish police defuse 2nd bomb on MallorcaPALMA DE MALLORCA, Balearic Islands — Spanish police say they are defusing a second bomb on the resort island of Mallorca, after an earlier explosion blamed on Basque separatist group killed two police officers. A police spokesman in Madrid says the second bomb is in the same beach resort area of the Mediterranean island where the two officers were killed Thursday.

July 30th, 2009 PALMA DE MAJORCA - Suspected militants of the armed Basque separatist group ETA Thursday targeted the Spanish tourist island of Majorca during the high holiday season, killing two police officers in a bomb blast. Police sources confirmed that two officers of the paramilitary Civil Guard were killed and several people were injured in the blast.

July 30th, 2009 2 Spanish officers killed in blast on MallorcaMADRID — An explosion near a police station on the Spanish island of Mallorca killed two officers Thursday — a day after a car-bomb attack blamed on Basque separatists left scores injured in northern Spain. A Civil Guard spokesman in Madrid said it was still too early to say what caused Thursday's blast in the Palmanova beach resort area, southwest of the resort island's capital of Palma de Mallorca.

July 30th, 2009 Explosion kills 2 Spanish police on resort islandPALMA DE MALLORCA, Balearic Islands — An explosion near a police station on a Spanish resort island killed two officers Thursday, a day after a car bombing blamed on Basque separatists injured scores in northern Spain, officials said. The cause of the blast in Mallorca was under investigation and a Civil Guard spokesman in Madrid could not confirm news reports saying the explosion may have been caused by a bomb attached to the underside of a police patrol vehicle.

July 29th, 2009 Car bomb explodes in Spain, dozens injuredBURGOS, Spain — A powerful car bomb exploded early Wednesday outside a barracks housing police officers and their families in this northern Spanish city, slightly injuring 46 people and causing major damage in the area. The attack was blamed on Basque separatist group ETA.

July 29th, 2009 Suspected car bomb explodes in Spanish cityMADRID — The Interior Ministry says a suspected car bomb has exploded near a Civil Guard barracks in the northern city of Burgos. Authorities did not have any immediate details available on injuries or damage.

July 24th, 2009 Spanish police arrest ex-Argentine police officialMADRID — Spanish police have arrested a former Argentine police official suspected of committing human rights abuses during the South American country's dirty war, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Friday. Jorge Alberto Soza was arrested July 7 in the eastern town of Ontinyent but details were not released immediately "for operational reasons," a police spokeswoman told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity in keeping with force rules.

July 13th, 2009 Catholics hurl petrol bombs at Belfast policeBELFAST, Northern Ireland — Militant Catholics are hurling firebombs, fireworks and other makeshift weapons at Northern Ireland police in opposition to a Protestant parade passing through the bitterly divided north side of Belfast. An Associated Press reporter has witnessed the crowd in the hard-line Catholic district of Ardoyne throw about a half-dozen Molotov cocktails at riot police.

June 19th, 2009 Spanish police report explosion in Basque countryMADRID — A car bomb exploded Friday near the Basque city of Bilbao, possibly killing one person, police said. The blast occurred in a parking lot in Arrigorriaga, an official with the Basque regional police said.

May 4th, 2009 Spain: judge presses on with Israel investigationMADRID — A Spanish judge says he will continue an investigation of current and former Israeli officials over an air force bombing in Gaza in 2002 that killed 15 people. A suspected Hamas militant died along with 14 civilians, nine of them children.

April 29th, 2009 Roadside bomb kills 9 Turkish soldiersANKARA, Turkey — Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a roadside bomb that killed nine soldiers Wednesday in a U.S.-made armored personnel carrier in southeastern Turkey, the Turkish military said. The bomb exploded near the town of Lice in Diyarbakir province in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, military chief Gen.