The bodies of five presumed migrants thought to have been trying to reach Spain were found on Sunday on northern Morocco's shoreline, local authorities said.

"The bodies of five probably illegal migrants, four of them from Senegal, were washed up from the Mediterranean" in the Nador area, MAP news agency cited officials as saying.

Thousands of pro-choice campaigners converged on the Spanish capital Saturday to voice their opposition to a government plan to restrict access to abortion in the mainly Catholic country.

Demonstrators shouting slogans and carrying banners that read "It's my right, It's my life" crowded around a Madrid station to greet a "freedom train" of activists from northern Spain for the country's first major protest against the plan.

Moroccan has uncovered a jihadist cell led by a Spanish army veteran who later fought in Afghanistan with al-Qaida, the interior ministry said on Saturday.

The cell was active in the north of Morocco, where Spain retains two sovereign enclaves, and around Marrakesh in the south, the ministry said in statement carried by the MAP national news agency.

A 40-year-old Swiss mother who was being hunted by police killed her 10-month-old baby boy by cutting his throat after being caught and arrested in Spain, police and newspaper reports said Thursday.

Spanish police detained the woman on an international arrest warrant on Wednesday in a Carrefour supermarket in the southeastern seaside city of Torrevieja and took her and her baby to hospital so the child could be treated for water on the brain, leading daily El Pais said.

Spanish police said Tuesday they had arrested a suspected Colombian hitman nicknamed "El Nino" (The Kid), accused of killing and then cutting up two compatriots whose remains were found in a Dutch canal.

The 33-year-old man is accused of murdering the two Colombian residents of Spain, whose chopped-up body parts turned up May 31 last year in a canal in the town of Pijnacker Nootdorp, near The Hague, Spanish police said in a statement.

A Spanish plan to tighten abortion laws will take women back to the Stone Age, French Social Affairs Minister Marisol Touraine said Tuesday.

Her broadside came amid a debate on a controversial new abortion law in France that would scrap a requirement for women to prove they are in distress to legally terminate a pregnancy.

Israel summoned European ambassadors on Friday accusing them of pro-Palestinian "bias" damaging to peace prospects, in a tit-for-tat move after Israeli envoys were called in over settlement expansion plans.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called in the ambassadors of Britain, France, Italy and Spain to "stress to them that their perpetual one-sided stance against Israel and in favor of the Palestinians is unacceptable and creates the impression they are only seeking ways to blame Israel," his spokesman said.

Catalonia's lawmakers voted Thursday to demand the right to hold a referendum on declaring independence from Spain, flying in the face of outright opposition in Madrid.

Catalan political chief Artur Mas's ruling coalition and a majority of other parties in the northeastern Spanish region are calling for a November 9, 2014 referendum that would ask voters two questions:

Roughly 60 migrants entered Spain's north African territory of Melilla on Wednesday after charging a barbed-wire border fence, officials said.

"At around 7:00 am about 150 migrants launched an assault and we estimate that around 60 managed to enter. We are waiting to get more data and specific details," a spokeswoman for Melilla town hall said.

Protests against a planned main street redevelopment in the normally tranquil Spanish city of Burgos have boiled over into riots, with residents rallying in the streets for a fifth day on Tuesday.

Police have arrested 40 people since the nightly demonstrations began on Friday, as protesters burned garbage containers, smashed windows and tore down security barriers.