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Trolleys bring relief for Moroccan 'mule women' at Spanish border
It's a form of hard labour that has provoked an outcry -- Moroccan women bent double, overburdened by goods approaching or exceeding their own bodyweight.
Father of boy smuggled into Spain in suitcase on trial
The heart-rending photo went round the world in 2015, showing an eight-year-old boy from Ivory Coast crammed into a suitcase that was found at a Spanish border crossing.
Two 'mule women' die in stampede at Spanish border
Two women carrying goods between Morocco and Spain's Ceuta enclave were killed on Monday in a stampede at the border between the two countries, a rights group and officials said.
Spanish police shoot Frenchman who 'shouted Allahu akbar'
Police in Spain shot and injured an unarmed Frenchman on Saturday at a toll station near the French border, who officers said was shouting 'Allahu akbar'.
Restive Morocco-Spain border hit by new car ramming incident
A car with five migrants hidden inside rammed its way through a border post between Morocco and the Spanish territory of Melilla on Saturday, the second such incident in two days at the restive frontier.
Case dropped against police who beat migrant
A human rights group vowed Wednesday to appeal after a Spanish court dismissed a case against eight police who beat a migrant trying to illegally enter Spain's north African territory of Melilla.
Border X-ray reveals boy, 8, smuggled in suitcase
An eight-year-old was discovered hiding in a suitcase as a woman attempted to smuggle him into Spain at the Ceuta border.
Church slams tough new immigration plans
Spain's Conference of Bishops has slammed a government proposal which would allow for the instant deportation of migrants who clamber over border fences into the country's north African enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta.
1,000 migrants storm Spain's African border
Around 1,000 would-be immigrants stormed the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish North African city of Melilla on Wednesday morning, with around 400 managing to enter the enclave.
Huge assault on Spanish border 'biggest ever'
Police stopped more than 1,600 migrants trying to cross the border from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Ceuta on Tuesday, an official said.
Spain border assault 'one of biggest in years'
More than 300 migrants stormed a triple-layer border fence on Spain's north African territory of Melilla on Friday with over 200 of them crossing successfully in what is said to be one of the largest such incidents in years.
Police get rubber bullet ban after migrant deaths
Spain's interior ministry confirmed on Tuesday that Civil Guard chiefs in Spain's north-African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla have ordered officers not to use of rubber bullets against would-be immigrants.
100 immigrants jump border to enter Spain
Around 100 sub-Saharan immigrants are reported to have illegally entered Spain's north African enclave of Melilla on Monday morning after jumping the fences on its border with Morocco.