THREE gunmen with their faces covered with red and white Arab head-dresses assassinated the police chief in Iraq's Sunni Triangle yesterday in an ambush at a traffic roundabout.

BRITAIN yesterday set out six tough new conditions for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to avoid war, in an attempt to break the UN Security Council stalemate.

Spain is open to changes in a United Nations resolution that would pave the way for war with Iraq, but any alterations must ensure Saddam Hussein’s “total disarmament”.

A sinking tanker with 70,000 tons on oil on board was drifting in Atlantic storms today, threatening Spain’s Coast of Death with an ecological disaster.

The top Spanish diplomat in Baghdad has quit because he could not support his government’s pro-US stance on Iraq.

SPAIN and Morocco are to hold high-level reconciliation talks on patching up relations after being persuaded by the US to step back from a dispute over the islet of Perejil.

SPAIN'S Foreign Minister yesterday offered to withdraw troops from a disputed Mediterranean island recaptured from Morocco, but only if Morocco promises not to reoccupy it.

Spain’s Foreign Minister today offered to withdraw troops from a disputed Mediterranean island recaptured from Morocco, but only if Morocco promises not to reoccupy it.

Spain has sent three war vessels to protect its possessions in North Africa as Morocco continued a military occupation of an uninhabited Spanish islet for a third day.