Sources: Daily Telegraph
Headed by Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez, left-wing heads of government gather at the IV Meeting in Defense of Democracy and Progressive Global Mobilization in Barcelona. Participants include Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Colombia's Gustavo Petro, Kosovo's Albin Kurti, Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum, South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa, and Uruguay's Yamandú Orsi. 2026-04-18
Three people are killed and 15 others are injured by storm surges amid rough seas off the coast of Tenerife, Spain. 2025-11-8
A Bell 206 sightseeing helicopter crashes into the Hudson River off Lower Manhattan, New York, United States, killing Siemens Spain CEO Agustín Escobar, his family of four, and the pilot. 2025-04-10
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
Two people are killed and eighteen others are injured when an explosion occurs in a residential building in Madrid, Spain. 2022-05-6
Twenty people are killed and four more are injured in a mass shooting at an illegal cockfighting pit in Las Tinajas, Michoacán, Mexico. 2022-03-28
The COVID-19 death toll in Mexico reaches to 28,000, surpassing Spain. 2020-06-30
A 62-year-old man in Seville becomes the first non imported infected case of coronavirus in Spain. 2020-02-26
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes near the town of Pinotepa Nacional and is widely felt across Southern and Central Mexico, causing material damages in the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Mexico City. It is followed by a 5.8-magnitude aftershock. 2018-02-16
The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency lowers its long-term credit ratings on the eurozone countries of Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain by two notches each and Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia by one notch each. 2012-01-13