A wildfire that officials suspect was started deliberately forced the evacuation of a third town in western Spain on Saturday, officials said.

Firefighters evacuated about 1,000 people from the town of Hoyos in the early hours of Saturday, a day after another 1,400 people were ordered to leave their homes and campsites in two other nearby towns.

A court in Spain on Friday paroled a former political head of the armed Basque separatist group ETA who renounced violence and already served three-quarters of a 30-year jail sentence.

Jose Luis Alvarez Santacristina, alias "Txelis", was detained in 1992 along with two other ETA leaders in Bidart in southwestern France in what was the first major operation on French soil against the group.

Spain on Friday urged Paris to stop attacks by French farmers against Spanish trucks carrying produce as part of a protest against falling food prices, saying the assaults were growing and carried out with "impunity."

"The Spanish government expressed via diplomatic means this morning to French authorities its deep concern over the serious events that are taking place on French roads," the Spanish foreign ministry said in a statement.

A wildfire raging in western Spain on Friday forced the evacuation of 1,400 people from towns and campsites, officials said.

The blaze, which broke out on Thursday amid scorching temperatures, has burned over 5,000 hectares (12,400 acres) of land, the government of Extremadura region said in a statement.

Spain has decided to buy four Reaper surveillance drones, the defense ministry said Thursday, making it the fifth European nation to equip itself with the U.S.-made devices.

The defense ministry budget for 2016, which was presented in parliament on Tuesday, sets aside 25 million euros ($27 million) to buy four reconnaissance drones and two ground stations.

When Elena and May were growing up, you didn't talk about the separatist group ETA and the decades of killings in their native Basque country. Now they are shouting and crying about it.

Actors in their forties, they are at a high school, playing out for their young audience the dramatised scenes of hatred and tension that Basques in northern Spain have suffered.

Spain's ruling Popular Party has extended its lead in voting intentions ahead of a year-end general election, while support for new anti-austerity party Podemos has fallen, a poll showed Wednesday.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative Popular Party would win an election with 28.2 percent if the vote were it held today, up from 25.6 percent in April, the survey by the state run CIS research center showed.

German police have detained a suspected Islamic State jihadist who fled Spain last month, German and Spanish authorities said Wednesday.

The 21-year-old Moroccan national, who lives in Spain, was detained on Tuesday near Stuttgart in southwestern Germany, German state police said in a statement.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Tuesday urged a big turnout in a regional election in Catalonia next month to counter separatists who want to turn the election into a vote on independence.

"These are important elections and I want to say to everyone that they should vote," he told a news conference near Huelva in southwestern Spain where he is on holidays.

A 27-year-old Moroccan man suffocated to death while trying to illegally enter Spain hidden inside a suitcase in the trunk of a car, police said Monday.

The man's older brother appears to have tried to smuggle him into Spain by ferry.