Sources: Al Jazeera The Guardian
Spain's Civil Guard seizes between 30,000 to 45,000kg of cocaine on a cargo ship off the Canary Islands in what is the country's largest ever seizure of the illegal drug. Twenty people on board the vessel are arrested. 2026-05-1
Venezuelan interior minister Diosdado Cabello announces that three US citizens, two Spanish citizens, and a Czech citizen have been arrested and are accused of planning to "generate violence" and "destabilize" Venezuela, with the Spanish citizens also accused of being Spanish secret service workers. 2024-09-14
Thailand reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a 38-year-old U.S. citizen who had travelled from Spain nearly a week ago. 2021-12-6
Four migrants are found dead by the Spanish Maritime Safety and Rescue Society in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Cape Trafalgar in the Province of Cádiz after their boat sank. The coast guard reports that 21 others from the boat are missing. 2021-10-15
The death toll from COVID-19 in Spain exceeds 1,000 while the total number of those infected reaches 20,000. 2020-03-20
Two vessels deliver 25 survivors and one Peruvian corpse from Spanish ship MV "Dorneda" to ports in Argentina and Patagonia. One crewman remains missing after the fishing trawler sank off Argentina. 2018-07-16
A massive fire breaks out at a tire dump in Seseña, near Madrid in Spain. The illegal dump contains 100,000 tons of used vehicle tires. The smoke from the fire is visible for at least 30km. 2016-05-13
Spain's interior minister Jorge Fernández Díaz says the first of more than 1,400 refugees from Syria and Eritrea are being welcomed for resettlement in new homes across the country. 2015-11-8
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