Sources: BBC
Unions in Belgium begin a three-day general strike across the country to protest Prime Minister Bart de Wever's government of "social dismantling" through budget cuts in their savings program. 2025-11-24
Five people are killed and four are injured in an explosion at a coal mine in Degaña, Asturias, Spain. 2025-03-31
Spain reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a person who travelled from South Africa. 2021-11-29
Spain reports 368 new fatalities in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day number since late April, as many parts of the country report a record number of deaths, exceeding levels reported in the first wave of the pandemic. 2020-11-5
The government of the Netherlands issues a travel warning advising the public not to travel to some places, including Paris, the region surrounding Marseilles, Brussels, Ibiza and Mallorca. The warnings come as a response to an increase in new cases in Spain, France and Belgium. 2020-08-15
Spain records its deadliest day with 950 deaths, exceeding 10,000, as employment falls by 834,000 jobs in 15 days. 2020-04-2
A French man is detained in Barcelona, Spain, upon entering the Sagrada Familia with a suitcase containing ammunition. The Catalan police do not consider it an act of terrorism. 2018-12-30
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
India imposes a curfew in some parts of Kashmir following a general strike being called by separatists to protest the death of two protesters. 2016-02-15
The Catalan Parliament passes a resolution calling for the Catalonian region to secede from Spain. Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy says his government will seek to invalidate the motion with an appeal to the Constitutional Court in the coming days. 2015-11-9