Sources: El País
Five people are killed and four are injured after an explosion at a coal mine in Degaña, Asturias, Spain. 2025-03-31
Nine people are killed, 27 others are rescued, and 48 others are missing when a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, Spain. 2024-09-28
One person is killed and 50 others are injured by a hailstorm in Catalonia, Spain. This is the first direct hail-related death in Europe since 1997. 2022-08-31
Eighteen migrants are killed and hundreds of people injured, mostly Spanish and Moroccan security forces, as around 2,000 migrants attempt to illegally enter Melilla, Spain, from Morocco. 2022-06-24
Spain reaches a target of fully vaccinating 70% of the population. 2021-09-1
Opposition politician Freddy Guevara is arrested in Caracas as police also enter the house of disputed president and opposition leader Juan Guaidó and his wife Fabiana Rosales. Exiled opposition leader Leopoldo López denounces the situation from Spain. 2021-07-12
The state of emergency in Spain officially finishes after more than 100 days. 2020-06-21
Hundreds of thousands of supporters for a unified Spain gather in Barcelona, the capital and largest city of Catalonia, in one of the biggest shows of force against Catalan independence. 2017-10-29
The Spanish-based Proactiva Open Arms NGO rescues more than 700 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea about 17 miles north of Sabratha, Libya. The rescued, who are from Nigeria, are transferred to the Italian Coast Guard. 2016-08-28
Food giant Nestlé removes its beef pasta meals from supermarkets in France, Spain, and Italy, after tests confirmed that the product contained horse meat. 2013-02-18