Lock down or face state of emergency, Spanish government tells Madrid
Madrid must enforce travel restrictions ordered by the health ministry to limit novel coronavirus outbreaks or the national government will impose a state of emergency...
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Tensions can’t be solved by unilateral actions says Spanish minister
Spain’s Foreign Affairs Minister Arancha González Laya on Wednesday expressed Madrid’s solidarity and support for Cyprus in the face of tensions with Turkey in the...
Madrid pleads for more doctors, police as coronavirus cases surge
Spain’s Madrid region on Wednesday requested urgent help to hire hundreds of foreign doctors and reinforce police as they registered 1,290 new coronavirus infections and considered extending...
Spain’s former king Juan Carlos is in Dominican Republic
Spain’s former king Juan Carlos has gone to the Dominican Republic after leaving his home country under a cloud of scandal, La Vanguardia and ABC...
Firefighters, troops battle forest fire outside Madrid Source
Spanish firefighters and military emergency personnel battled amid blistering heat on Monday to control a wildfire in the Madrid region that had burned through the...
Spain enters steep recession, wiping out six years of growth
Spain recorded a historic fall in GDP in the second quarter of the year, with the 18.5% drop wiping out all the post-financial crisis recovery...
Fearing new coronavirus wave, Barcelona limits number of beach-goers
Barcelona authorities on Tuesday cut the number of people allowed on to the city’s beaches to 32,000 from 38,000, after crowds flocked to the sea...
End of lockdown fails to boost jobs market in Spain
The end of the coronavirus lockdown in Spain failed to bring a surge in employment as government data showed that the 900,000 jobs lost at the peak...
Far-right protests erupt in Spain against coronavirus lockdowns
Thousands of cars and motor-bikes honking horns and waving Spanish flags drove in procession through Madrid on Saturday as part of a nationwide protest called...
Coronavirus: Fresh air at last! Spanish children allowed out for first time in six weeks
On foot, on skateboards and on scooters, Spanish children emerged from their homes on Sunday for the first time after six long weeks of living...
Spanish court orders Ryanair to reinstate 224 dismissed workers
Spain’s High Court ordered Ryanair on Friday to reinstate 224 workers collectively dismissed from four bases in the country, saying the reasons given by the...
Spain’s coronavirus death pace slows, but agony continues
The pace of new coronavirus deaths in Spain slowed for the fourth day on Monday, but overcrowded crematoria in Barcelona and the death of soccer...
Divided and election-weary, Spain heads to the polls
A bitterly divided Spain goes to the polls on Sunday for its second parliamentary election in just over six months, likely to deliver an even...
Spain jails leaders of Catalan secession bid for sedition
By Isla Binnie and Emma Pinedo MADRID, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Spain’s Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine separatist leaders from Catalonia to between nine...
Spain to hold snap election on Nov. 10 after party talks fail
Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday called a snap election for Nov. 10, Spain’s fourth in as many years, after failing to secure support...
Spanish NGO boat seeks safe port for 124 people rescued in Mediterranean
A Spanish charity rescue boat sought safe port on Friday after Italy rejected its request to disembark 124 people saved from two migrant rafts in...
Spanish man dies after being swept away by floods
One man’s body has been found after a river burst its banks during sudden, torrential rain in the northern Spanish region of Navarra on Monday...
Spain’s PM calls snap election for April 28 (Update)
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday called a snap national election for April 28, potentially spelling months of uncertainty in the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy,...
Cyprus and Spain committed to upgrading bilateral relations
Spain and Cyprus are committed to upgrading bilateral relations, the foreign ministers of both countries pledged after talks on Wednesday in Nicosia. In his remarks,...
Spanish rescuers find body of toddler trapped in well
Spanish rescuers on Saturday found the dead body of a two-year-old boy who had fallen into a deep narrow well in southern Spain on Jan. 13, a Spanish official said....
