Sources: Wall Street Journal
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
Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, calls for snap elections after the defeat of his party in the Local and regional elections. 2023-05-29
Spain receives its first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine tozinameran in Guadalajara, a day before the country begins its vaccination programme. 2020-12-26
Spanish National Police Corps officers arrest former rapper and ISIL militant Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary and two other men, after raiding their apartment overnight in Almería. Abdel Bary is suspected of being a member of the The Beatles cell, who were responsible for beheading Western hostages in Syria. 2020-04-21
Djibouti reports its first confirmed case of COVID-19, a member of Spain's Special Operations Groups who arrived at Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport on March 14. 2020-03-18
Basque separatist group ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), which waged an insurgency against Spain between 1959 and 2011, announces its complete dissolution. 2018-05-2
In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA announces that it will fully disarm by April 8, 2017. 2017-03-17
According to reports in Catalonia, Argentine football star Lionel Messi has paid €10 million in Spanish back taxes for 2010 and 2011, and is looking to settle a claimed tax liability of €4.1 million for the 2007–2009 period that is the subject of a current investigation. 2013-06-24
Thousands of people rally in Spanish municipality of Bilbao calling for the legalization of the new separatist party Sortu. 2011-02-19
Two Spanish activists and a journalist arrested in an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla file charges against Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 2010-07-24