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The Spanish Congress of Deputies passes a bill by 188–150 votes allowing anyone over the age of 16 to legally change their gender on their national identity card. The bill will now head to the Senate for final approval.
2022-12-22

More than 1,500 people are evacuated from Zaragoza, Spain, due to wildfires.
2022-08-14

Venezuela reports its first seven cases of the Omicron variant in a group of people who had travelled from another country, such as Spain, Dominican Republic, Panama, and Turkey.
2021-12-22

A boat capsizes off the coast of Mauritania with 47 people on board presumed dead. The Mauritanian Coast Guard rescues several people from the sea. The boat had departed from Western Sahara and was travelling to the Canary Islands, Spain.
2021-08-17

An elderly woman traveling from Spain becomes the first case of coronavirus in Ecuador.
2020-02-29

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

A pregnant woman is reported with the Zika virus in Spain - the first case in Europe.
2016-02-4

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is predicting that a low pressure system in the Coral Sea will develop into tropical cyclone Marcia within 24 hours and bring heavy rain to South East Queensland with the potential to cause flooding.
2015-02-18

A high-speed train carrying 225 passengers derails near Santiago de Compostela, Spain, leaving 80 dead and over 140 injured. It is Spain's deadliest rail incident since the 2004 Madrid train bombings, and the country's worst accidental train disaster since the Torre del Bierzo rail disaster in 1944.
2013-07-24

Striking miners and riot police clash in northern Spain as Mariano Rajoy's austerity drive causes escalating violence.
2012-06-19