Spain charges Basque leader with ETA membership
A Spanish high court judge charged former Basque lawmaker Arnaldo Otegi of the banned nationalist group Batasuna with membership of armed separatist group ETA, judicial sources said. The sources said the former Batasuna spokesman would appear in court on June 8 to answer the charge of belonging to the group blamed for more than 800 deaths in a four-decade campaign to win an independent Basque homeland straddling the Pyrenees in northern Spain and southwestern France. Full Story