A British judge ruled Tuesday that a convicted ETA militant who spent years in prison in Spain should be extradited back to the country.

Antonio Troitino spent 24 years in Spanish prisons for his role in 22 murders by ETA, the armed Basque separatist movement.

Spain's foreign minister said Monday that Spain will propose that the United Nations create an international court specialized in terrorism crimes.

Jose Maria Garcia-Margallo said such a court could be used by nations like the United States, China and Israel that do not accept the jurisdiction of the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC).

The foreign ministers of France, Spain and Germany paid tribute on Monday to the victims of the Germanwings crash in the French Alps at Barcelona airport, where the flight took off last month.

French foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Spanish Foreign Minister Manuel Garcia-Margallo and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier laid a wreath at a memorial stone placed at the airport in honor of the victims.

Spain's anti-austerity party Podemos has lost its lead in opinion polls, with four parties now running neck-and-neck, according to a survey published in El Pais newspaper on Sunday.

After watching its ratings rocket during the autumn and winter, support for the radical party appears to have stagnated at 22.1 percent, down 1.4 percent on a similar poll conducted by Metroscopia in March.

Leaders seeking independence for Spain's Catalonia region had the wind in their sails four months ago, but the change sweeping Spanish politics has blown them off course.

Politicians warn that surging left-wing party Podemos is a "Trojan horse" disrupting the independence drive, while center-right Ciudadanos vows to sink the secessionists.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called Friday for a new push to resolve the conflict over Western Sahara and stressed that cooperation to address human rights could help find a settlement.

In a report to the Security Council, Ban said Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front must "seriously engage" with his envoy and "intensify their efforts" to end the conflict over the north African territory.

A gang suspected of links to the Islamic State group planned possible kidnappings, an execution and attacks on Jewish shops and public buildings in Spain, an investigating judge said Friday.

Judges in Madrid questioned the 11 suspects, including a woman and a 17-year-old, who were arrested on Wednesday in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region.

Spain on Thursday defended EU sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, rejecting repeated criticism of the measures by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

During a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday, Tsipras said the European Union needed "to leave behind this vicious cycle of sanctions".

Visiting Spanish King Felipe VI inspected on Wednesday his country's United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon contingent in the southern region of Marjeyoun, where Israeli artillery killed a Spanish peacekeeper in January.

He was accompanied by Defense Minister Samir Moqbel.

Spanish police Wednesday arrested 11 people suspected of links to the Islamic State group, including six Muslim converts, some of whom intended to launch attacks in the Catalonia region, officials said.

It was the latest of scores of such raids as Europe seeks to stop recruitment by the extremist group, which has claimed the killings of many foreign hostages.