Sources: Al Jazeera RTÉ
In tennis, Carlos Alcaraz of Spain defeats Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the final to win the men's singles title at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, becoming the first non-Big Four player to win the tournament since 2002. 2023-07-16
Spain reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a person who travelled from South Africa. 2021-11-29
France imposes a mandatory requirement for a negative COVID-19 test result from the previous 24 hours for unvaccinated people travelling from Cyprus, Greece, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom due to concerns over the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. 2021-07-18
Hurricane-force winds from former Hurricane Leslie strike central and northern Portugal, leaving a man dead and 27 others injured. It moves through Spain as a tropical storm. 2018-10-14
Eight people go on trial in Navarra, Spain, accused of terrorism after an alleged attack on two Civil Guards in a controversial case with the prosecution seeking a total 375 years imprisonment for the defendants. The defence claims the incident was nothing more than a bar brawl and Amnesty International describes the charges as "inappropriate". 2018-04-17
Spain's economy and finance minister Luis de Guindos confirms the receipt of up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion) in loans to help shore up its struggling banks, with the exact amount to be determined by the end of the month. 2012-06-9
Spain's unemployment figure passes five million for the first time in nearly 17 years. 2012-01-27
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, who indicted the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, is put on trial for supposedly overstepping his powers after he tried to investigate the disappearance of 114,000 people between 1936 and 1975 during the reign of Francisco Franco. 2012-01-24
In Great Britain, at least 29 flights from London Stansted Airport to Spain-Portugal-Canary Islands, at least seven flights from London Gatwick Airport to Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid and Portugal, and at least one flight from London Heathrow Airport to La Coruña are cancelled. 2010-05-8