London Accuses Spanish Ships Of Violating Gibraltar's Territory

The British foreign office has accused Spain of a "clear violation of U.K. sovereignty" by sending boats and helicopters into its waters off Gibraltar, reports the Financial Times (London).

Over the past two days, Spanish vessels from the Servicio de Vigilancia, the Spanish police's drugs- and money-laundering unit "repeatedly entered British Gibraltar territorial waters without notifying Gibraltarian authorities," said a spokesman for the British Foreign Ministry, as quoted by...