Two people have been arrested in the north African enclave of Ceuta on suspicion of belonging to a jihadi terror cell and being prepared to carry out attacks in Spain, the Spanish Interior Ministry said today.

Spanish and Moroccan police say they have arrested seven suspected members of a terror network spread across the two countries aimed at recruiting women for the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.

Spanish police have arrested eight people suspected of recruiting jihadist militants for al-Qaida-linked groups in Syria.

Two Moroccans were trampled to death and around 20 other people were injured today as a crowd pushed to cross into Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

A British woman and her daughter were killed after being swept away by floods near Valencia in Spain, police said today.

Dozens of African immigrants rushed a border crossing between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla today, clashing with security forces that pushed them back, the Spanish government said.

Police in a Spanish enclave in North Africa caught a teenager trying to sneak in from Morocco hidden in the petrol tank of a Mercedes car, officials said today.

King Juan Carlos will begin a visit to Spain's two North African enclaves today that has sparked a diplomatic spat with Morocco, which claims the territories as its own.

Tougher border security at Spain’s two north African enclaves has increased illegal immigration into Italy, the interior minister said.

Amnesty International accused Spanish and Moroccan security forces yesterday of using excessive force and violating immigrants’ rights in trying to repel waves of Africans seeking to gain a foothold in Europe over the past month.

DOZENS of African illegal immigrants who charged across the border into the Spanish enclave of Melilla have been deported to Morocco after a week of deadly clashes, officials said yesterday.

MORE than 300 Africans tore through a razor-wire fence separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Melilla yesterday, clashing with police in the latest wave of undocumented immigrants seeking a foothold in Europe.

Spanish and Moroccan officials had no comment on reports today that their respective security forces were responsible for shooting at five immigrants who were killed when hundreds rushed a barrier at one of its two enclaves on the northern Morocco coast.

Two Africans died today as hundreds of migrants tried to climb a fence separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.

Spanish police have arrested 11 people linked to the Islamic terror network run by Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, and another five suspects in the Madrid train bombings of last year, police said today.

Mar Roman, Madrid

Two Moroccans went to court today for questioning in connection with last month’s train bombings in Madrid.

SPAIN has been placed on unprecedented security alert during a week when millions of people pack trains and roads to go away for Easter.

Police tightened security in Madrid today after an Islamic group, which claimed responsibility for the March 11 train bombings in the capital, threatened to turn Spain into “an inferno”.

The United States is to release 24 prisoners from the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the coming weeks, an American envoy has said.

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 was today waiting for Morocco to respond to its pledge to withdraw from a disputed Mediterranean island if the Arab nation also agreed to stay off.

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.

Outraged Morocco has dubbed a surprise military assault by helicopter-borne Spanish troops who recaptured a disputed Mediterranean island an act of war.

By John Spader, Rabat

Spain today grabbed back the tiny uninhabited Mediterranean isle no bigger than a soccer pitch that is at the centre of a bitter dispute with Morocco.

Spanish forces have evicted a unit of Moroccan soldiers from a disputed Mediterranean island, the Spanish news agency Efe said today.

SPANISH Foreign Minister Ana Palacio yesterday called on Morocco to get the message Madrid is trying to convey by deploying gunboats near a tiny abandoned island invaded by Moroccan soldiers.

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.

Spain lodged a serious protest today after a dozen Moroccan troops put up two of their country’s flags on a tiny uninhabited Spanish island in the Mediterranean.