Sources: BBC
In association football, FIFA awards the 2030 FIFA World Cup to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco, making it the first FIFA World Cup tournament to be hosted in North Africa. The opening ceremony will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay, to mark the 100th anniversary of the competition. 2023-10-4
Four people are injured during a mass shooting at a nightclub in Marbella, Andalusia, Spain. The perpetrator is stabbed and hospitalized. 2022-07-18
Wildfires break out in southwestern France and Spain amidst a heat wave in Europe. 2022-07-16
Around one thousand people are evacuated in Castile and León, Spain, as a wildfire spreads across the region. 2021-08-16
A lorry carrying five circus elephants crashes in Albacete, Spain, killing one elephant. 2018-04-2
A pregnant woman is reported with the Zika virus in Spain - the first case in Europe. 2016-02-4
Following a January 18 airstrike against a Hezbollah convoy, Hezbollah targets an Israeli military convoy near the Lebanon border at the Shebaa farms area, killing two and wounding another seven. While the Israeli military responds with artillery fire upon several South Lebanon border villages and Shebaa Farms, Hezbollah responds with mortar shells. Cross fire fighting kills a Spanish UN peacekeeper in the town of Ghajar. 2015-01-28
Britain makes a protest to the Spanish authorities over the opening of a diplomatic bag at the border with Gibraltar on Friday 22 November 2013. 2013-11-26
Treasure from the Spanish Navy frigate "Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes" returns to Spain after being recovered by Odyssey Marine Exploration in 2007. 2012-02-25