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Storm Ciarán impacts northwestern Europe, killing six people, including two in Belgium, two in France, and one each in Spain and the Netherlands, and causing mass disruption to transport. Widespread damage from 100 mph winds are reported in the Channel Islands, while 1.2 million French households are left without electricity.
2023-11-2

More than 100 homes on the island of La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands are destroyed by lava flows, and 5,000 people are evacuated. Several schools on the island suspend classes.
2021-09-20

Spain's GDP contracts 11% in 2020, the country's worst economic performance since the Spanish Civil War.
2021-01-29

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez states that Spain will begin a comprehensive COVID-19 vaccination programme in January and expects to have vaccinated a substantial part of the population within three months.
2020-11-22

The Department of Health and Social Care confirms the UK's death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 20,000. It joins the United States, Italy, Spain and France as the fifth nation to reach this total.
2020-04-25

A 33-year-old Yemeni man stabbed and wounded three Spanish theatre actors in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Is not known if the attack is in protest against the war in Yemen or for the attacker's opposition to Saudi Arabia’s growing entertainment industry.
2019-11-11

In Spain, authorities report two deaths connected to the extreme heat. The worst wildfire in 20 years burns more than 5,000 hectares at the south of Province of Tarragona, in Catalonia.
2019-06-28

A Spain car rally race crash leaves six dead after a car veers off a straight section into spectators.
2015-09-6

The death toll from the January 26 crash of a Hellenic Air Force F-16 fighter jet in southern Spain rises to eleven.
2015-01-27

The Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia bans bullfighting, the first region on the mainland to do so.
2010-07-28