Sources: BBC
The death toll from the flooding in Spain, primarily in the Valencian Community, increases to 214, with dozens still missing. The Spanish government deploys an additional 5,000 soldiers and 5,000 police officers, making this the country's largest deployment of army and security personnel in peacetime. 2024-11-2
Nine people are killed, 15 others are injured and one is missing during a fire at a 14-storey residential building in Valencia, Spain. 2024-02-22
More than 1,500 people are evacuated from Zaragoza, Spain, due to wildfires. 2022-08-14
Spain reports 537 new deaths in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day total since mid-April, which brings the nationwide death toll to 43,668. 2020-11-24
The Spanish Health Minister Carmen Montón resigns after the irregularities in her master's degree and the plagiarism of part of her final project were made public on 10 September. She is the second minister to resign since Pedro Sánchez formed the government on 7 June. 2018-09-11
Pro-independent trade unions, businesses, and schools in Catalonia hold a general strike to protest Spanish police brutality during the October 1 independence referendum. 2017-10-3
Four-hundred African migrants charge past Moroccan border forces by throwing rocks, trying to storm border fences separating Spain's North African enclave Melilla, but Spanish guards repel them. 2015-02-1
The European Central Bank and the European Commission release a joint report on the banking system in Spain, indicating that system is solvent and will not require "further program disbursements." 2013-07-5
Spanish joblessness levels hit a record high yet again, with youth unemployment running at 50%. 2012-04-3
Tens of thousands demonstrate against an abortion bill in several Spanish cities. 2010-03-7