Sources: BBC
Two people are killed, including the perpetrator, and six others are injured, including three police officers and three seriously, in a shootout at a house in Calldetenes, Catalonia, Spain. 2025-07-8
Five people are killed and four are injured in an explosion at a coal mine in Degaña, Asturias, Spain. 2025-03-31
Alex Batty, a British boy who went missing in Spain in 2017 when he was 11, is found alive in France. 2023-12-14
The government announces the closure of its border with Spain for two weeks beginning January 31. 2021-01-28
The Abbott of the Montserrat Abbey, in Barcelona, Spain, apologizes for the sexual abuses that a monk did and that came to light two weeks ago. 2019-02-3
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces that he will allow a migrant vessel carrying 629 rescued migrants, including children and pregnant women, to dock in Valencia after Malta and Italy both refused the vessel. 2018-06-11
The President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Artur Mas i Gavarró, drops plans for a referendum on independence on November 9 from Spain following opposition from the Constitutional Court of Spain. 2014-10-14
A high-speed train carrying 225 passengers derails near Santiago de Compostela, Spain, leaving 80 dead and over 140 injured. It is Spain's deadliest rail incident since the 2004 Madrid train bombings, and the country's worst accidental train disaster since the Torre del Bierzo rail disaster in 1944. 2013-07-24
Andrew Moran, one of Britain's most wanted criminals, is arrested in Costa Blanca, Spain. 2013-05-12
The Roman Catholic Church in Cuba announces that the government will release two more political prisoners to exile in Spain. 2010-12-24