Sources: BBC
Spanish foreign minister José Albares calls on the European Council to suspend EU relations with Israel due to Israeli human rights violations in Gaza. He also calls for an arms embargo against Israel and sanctions on individuals obstructing the two-state solution. 2025-06-23
Spanish and French farmers block roads on highways through the Pyrenees mountains in protest against trade with non-European Union member states. 2024-06-3
Spain registers its record daily jump in COVID-19 cases for the second day in a row, when the country's Ministry of Health reports 25,595 new cases over the past 24 hours. 2020-10-30
A train collision near Barcelona, Spain, leaves one dead and 100 injured. 2019-02-8
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
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
A train derails at a station in the town of O Porriño in Galicia, Spain, killing at least four people. 2016-09-9
Eurozone leaders hold an emergency meeting on assistance to Spain and Italy. 2012-06-28
A much-publicised project backed by Spain's government sells just 16 of the 2,000 electric cars it had intended so far in 2010. 2010-08-10
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