Sources: BBC
Spanish police dismantle an alleged international network accused of trafficking minors from the Canary Islands to France, arresting eleven suspects in operations in Lanzarote, Las Palmas, and Madrid. 2025-11-13
Four people are killed, three others are injured and others are reported missing when a former office block being converted into a hotel partially collapses in Madrid, Spain. 2025-10-7
Spain recalls its ambassador to Argentina after President of Argentina Javier Milei calls Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife Begoña Gómez corrupt during a rally in Madrid and also refuses to meet with King Felipe VI. 2024-05-19
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez agrees to an amnesty deal with the Catalan separatist Together for Catalonia party in order to secure the necessary support for another term in office. The agreement causes protests in Madrid with the right-wing People's Party calling it a "humiliation" for the country. 2023-11-9
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López arrives to Madrid, Spain, after spending the last year in the Spanish embassy to avoid house arrest. 2020-10-25
Madrid announces plans to introduce targeted lockdowns and other restrictions on movement on September 18, in areas with high cases, local authorities said as the region accounts for around one-third of active cases in Spain. 2020-09-16
The sixth floor of the Hotel Ritz in Madrid, Spain, collapses resulting in the death of one person while 12 others are injured. 2018-09-18
Spanish protesters known as the "Indignants" begin a march from Madrid to Brussels in Belgium to protest at cuts in government expenditure in Spain. 2011-07-27
In Great Britain, at least 29 flights from London Stansted Airport to Spain-Portugal-Canary Islands, at least seven flights from London Gatwick Airport to Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid and Portugal, and at least one flight from London Heathrow Airport to La Coruña are cancelled. 2010-05-8
Marchers march in a dozen Spanish cities, including thousands in Madrid, to support Judge Baltasar Garzón who has been told he may face a trial for launching an inquiry into the acts of General Francisco Franco. Falange arranges a smaller protest in Madrid in opposition to Garzón. 2010-04-24