Sources: Al Jazeera The Guardian
Two people are killed and several others are injured in a fire at a home in Magaluf, Mallorca, Spain. 2026-06-11
Former Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is charged with money laundering and membership of a criminal organisation in connection with an investigation into the alleged laundering of the €53 million public bailout that incumbent prime minister Pedro Sánchez's second government provided to the airline Plus Ultra and La Liga Airlines in 2021. 2026-05-19
Seven migrants are found dead on beaches after several boats from Algeria sink off the coast of Andalusia, Spain, as authorities rescue 26 people from one vessel and 38 from another and continue searching for additional victims. 2025-09-3
In two separate incidents, there are a total of at least seventeen migrants killed after they attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Spain. 2018-11-6
Spanish King Felipe VI swears in the cabinet of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. It is the first cabinet in European history, and the only in the world, to be composed primarily of women. 2018-06-7
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is punched in the face by a teenager during a People's Party campaign event in the city of Pontevedra. 2015-12-16
The Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyer USS Donald Cook of the U.S. Navy arrives at a Spanish base in Rota to begin deployment with the U.S. 6th Fleet. 2014-02-11
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, who indicted the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, is put on trial for supposedly overstepping his powers after he tried to investigate the disappearance of 114,000 people between 1936 and 1975 during the reign of Francisco Franco. 2012-01-24
Moody's downgrades Spain's credit rating to A1 after Standard & Poor's and Fitch downgraded Spain's rating two weeks ago. 2011-10-18
Algerian authorities arrest an Israeli spy found with a false Spanish passport under the 35-year-old pseudonym Alberto Vagilo. This was initially reported by some sources as the abduction of a Spanish citizen by an al-Qaeda-linked group. 2010-03-31