MADRID, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - The armed Basque separatist group ETA claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the assassination of a former town councilman two days before a March 9 general election, in a statement sent to the Basque newspaper Gara.

MADRID, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - The main leaders of Batasuna, the banned political wing of ETA, will go on trial for their alleged links to the armed Basque separatist group, a Spanish court said Tuesday.

VADUZ, March 31, 2008 (AFP) - Liechtenstein on Monday said a Spaniard arrested in connection with a probe into the financing of Spain's Basque separatist movement ETA had established a foundation here but denied that a bank account had been blocked.

MADRID, March 30, 2008 (AFP) - Police in Spain's northern Basque Country found fragments from a small explosion near a telecommunications antenna Sunday after a telephone warning by the separatist group ETA, regional officials said.

The blast caused minor damage and no injuries, the Basque interior ministry said in a statement.

MADRID, March 30, 2008 (AFP) - Police in Spain's northern Basque Country Sunday found fragments from two small explosions near a telecommunications antenna after a telephone warning by the separatist group ETA, local authorities said.

MADRID, March 30, 2008 (AFP) - Authorities in the tiny European principality of Liechtenstein have frozen bank accounts suspected to be linked to Spain's Basque separatist group ETA, a newspaper reported Sunday.

MADRID, March 24, 2008 (AFP) - Spain must brace for a long cycle of violence from ETA, blamed for a car bomb blast and the assassination of a politician this month, the country's interior minister said Monday.

MADRID, March 14, 2008 (AFP) - Spain's Socialist leaders said Friday they may offer more autonomy to the Basque Country, in a plan reportedly aimed at defusing a potential conflict with the region's nationalist government.

MADRID, March 14, 2008 (AFP) - Spain's Socialist leaders said Friday they may offer more autonomy to the Basque Country, in a plan reportedly aimed at defusing a potential conflict with the region's nationalist government.

MADRID, March 13, 2008 (AFP) - Spain's top anti-terrorist judge has asked authorities in France and Belgium to investigate nine people who allegedly received large sums of money from a Basque separatist group, judicial sources said Thursday.