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An explosion caused by a gas leak at a residence for priests in Madrid, Spain results in four fatalities and injures ten others. It also partially destroys the residence.
2021-01-20

Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López arrives to Madrid, Spain, after spending the last year in the Spanish embassy to avoid house arrest.
2020-10-25

Spain announces it is closing hotels in the country for the sake of converting them into hospitals, as local medical facilities are being overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients. A military hospital will also be constructed in the capital Madrid.
2020-03-21

Spain's Ministry of Health reports more than 1,500 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a single day, including over a thousand in the capital Madrid.
2020-03-14

In Madrid, Spain, a man throws a hand grenade at a migrant unaccompanied minor centre, although it did not explode.
2019-12-4

A massive fire breaks out at a tire dump in Seseña, near Madrid in Spain. The illegal dump contains 100,000 tons of used vehicle tires. The smoke from the fire is visible for at least 30km.
2016-05-13

A scorpion stings a passenger on a flight from Costa Rica to Spain, which forced the sealing of the Iberia airlines Airbus A340 at Madrid's Barajas International Airport.
2012-11-26

Cuba frees Ivan Hernandez, a dissident who refused to go into exile in Spain.
2011-02-19

Three more dissidents released by Cuba on humanitarian grounds arrive in Spain.
2010-07-22

Two more Cuban dissidents arrive in Spain out of the 52 political prisoners due to be released on humanitarian grounds.
2010-07-14