Sources: BBC
Five people are killed and three more are missing during floods across Spain. The heaviest rains occurred in the coastal provinces of Cádiz, Tarragona and Castellón. 2023-09-4
Two people are killed and eighteen others are injured when an explosion occurs in a residential building in Madrid, Spain. 2022-05-6
A boat capsizes off the coast of Mauritania with 47 people on board presumed dead. The Mauritanian Coast Guard rescues several people from the sea. The boat had departed from Western Sahara and was travelling to the Canary Islands, Spain. 2021-08-17
The Department of Health and Social Care reports 737 more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the UK's death toll to 10,612. The UK becomes the fourth country in Europe, after Italy, Spain and France, to surpass 10,000 deaths from COVID-19. 2020-04-12
Guatemala reports the country's first death from the coronavirus, an 85-year-old man who had recently returned from Spain. 2020-03-15
An elderly woman traveling from Spain becomes the first case of coronavirus in Ecuador. 2020-02-29
A Spanish C-101 military jet crashes into the sea near La Manga, killing its pilot. 2019-08-27
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
Spanish police raid Catalan government offices and arrest Catalan officials as part of the effort to halt a banned referendum on independence. Catalan President Carles Puigdemont says, "The Spanish state has by all rights intervened in Catalonia’s government and has established emergency rule." 2017-09-20
Spain extradites Rifat Hadziahmetovic, an alleged member of the Pink Panthers, to Japan in relation to a 2007 jewel robbery in Tokyo. 2010-08-14