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At least 13 people are killed and four others are injured in a fire at a nightclub in Murcia, Spain.
2023-10-1

Spain deploys the Army in Ceuta to control the border with Morocco while immigrants continue to arrive in the face of the permissiveness of the Moroccan police. At least one migrant is reported dead while trying to cross the border in Melilla.
2021-05-18

Spain reports a record 40,197 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 2,252,164.
2021-01-15

The Department of Health and Social Care confirms the UK's death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 20,000. It joins the United States, Italy, Spain and France as the fifth nation to reach this total.
2020-04-25

The foreign ministries of Spain and Morocco announce they will hold talks to resolve a dispute over territorial water rights in the North Atlantic, caused by the Moroccan parliament passing two laws that extended its claims to the coast of Western Sahara earlier this week. Spain expressed concerns that these laws would encroach on its claims near the Canary Islands.
2020-01-24

In Barcelona, a water cannon is used for the first time against protesters in Spain.
2019-10-18

A train collision near Barcelona, Spain, leaves one dead and 100 injured.
2019-02-8

The remains of surrealist painter Salvador Dalí are exhumed following a Madrid court order on settling the paternity claim of a woman who is allegedly the painter's natural daughter. Various experts contest the claim, noting Dalí's sexual eccentrism (including a public boast about his "impotency") and that the action being against the state (Dalí bequeathed his estate to Spain). If proven, this woman could assume part of Dalí's estate.
2017-07-21

Residents of El Hierro in Spain's Canary Islands are evacuated following continuing volcanic activity.
2011-11-5

The Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia bans bullfighting, the first region on the mainland to do so.
2010-07-28