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Many countries, including South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, announce plans to evacuate all of their citizens or nationals from Sudan.
2023-04-21

The Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, erupts for the first time in fifty years. A few hours later, the first preventive evacuations of people with reduced mobility from nearby towns took place after the declaration of a state of pre-eruption.
2021-09-19

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

Spanish National Police Corps officers arrest former rapper and ISIL militant Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary and two other men, after raiding their apartment overnight in Almería. Abdel Bary is suspected of being a member of the The Beatles cell, who were responsible for beheading Western hostages in Syria.
2020-04-21

Spain's third largest bank, CaixaBank, announces it is moving its legal base out of Catalonia to Valencia. This follows a similar move yesterday by Catalan banking group Banco Sabadell who announced they are moving their headquarters to Alicante in response to growing political insecurity in Catalonia.
2017-10-6

The newly appointed President of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, vows to continue his predecessor Artur Mas i Gavarró's plans to secede from Spain within 18 months.
2016-01-10

A military aircraft crashes during an air show killing the pilot and injuring another 19 on the ground in Madrid, Spain.
2013-05-5

Mauritania extradites a man to Mali convicted for kidnapping three Spanish aid workers believed to be held by the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.
2010-08-18

Three more dissidents released by Cuba on humanitarian grounds arrive in Spain.
2010-07-22

Current death tolls: France (50), Germany (5), Spain (3), Portugal (1), Belgium (1)
2010-03-1