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The British government has ruled out that Gibraltar - a British dependent territory in the Iberian Peninsula - has entered into a separate agreement with the European Union on crossing the border without passport control after Brexit.more

Spain's Balearic Islands banned pub crawl tours and happy hours in three holiday hotspots on Friday in a string of new measures to crack down on binge-drinking tourists. The new regulations also outlawed "balconing", where revellers jump off balconies, often into hotel swimming pools - a practice that has killed dozens of drunken visitors over the years.more

Spanish authorities had deemed the painting a national treasure and insisted it stay in Spain. The 83-year-old art collector, who owned the painting, was convicted of smuggling and sentenced to 18 months in prison.more

The Spanish Supreme Court ruled in favor of apartment owners renting private premises to tourists in the center of Madrid. more

In Madrid, the trial of 133 air traffic controllers began yesterday, whose protest in December 2010 led to a two-day paralysis of air traffic over Spain.more

In 2019, as many as 2,644 illegal migrants arrived by boats from Africa to the Canary Islands. It's 100 percent more than in the previous year - informed the authorities of this Spanish archipelago.more

The number of babies born in Spain continues to fall to record lows. In 2018, there were 372,777 births, the lowest figure registered in the last two decades. That's according to final data released on Wednesday by Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE).more

The drowning of a man and his two children in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol was a "tragic accident", the hotel owners have said.more

Uneaten Christmas dishes on the Iberian Peninsula are often consumed again in a different form. The use of waste is not only fashionable there, but also practiced by renowned chefs.more

Authorities in Spain and Portugal said Friday that six people have died in accidents following heavy rain. more

Record numbers of reports of domestic violence against women were recorded in the third quarter of 2019 in Spain, the High Council of Justice (CGPJ) said. From July to September this year the police received over 45,000 such notifications.more

A man has died in the town of Puenxo (Asturias) and another two in Portugal at the pass of the "Elsa" storm that has left winds of up to 160 kilometers per hour, floods, road cuts, class suspension, falling trees, after punish the western peninsular part.more

The pro-independence leader of Catalonia's regional government has been barred from holding public office for 18 months over his refusal to order the removal of separatist symbols from buildings, the Spanish region's highest court said on Thursday.more

At least 46 people have been injured as police clashed with protesters outside the Camp Nou during and after Wednesday's Clasico.more

The Spanish media, in connection with the COP25 climate summit in Madrid that ended yesterday, point out to some celebrities, including several famous actors, that despite ecological rhetoric, they themselves contribute to environmental pollution.more

The COP25 climate summit in Madrid ended today without agreement. Delegates from nearly 200 countries who discussed the issue of carbon trading only emphasized the "urgent need" to combat global warming.more

A hotel in Spain has just decked the halls with boughs of diamonds and donned their bougiest apparel with an 12 million euro Christmas tree.more

The daily La Razon, published in Madrid, warned of a possible terrorist attack on one of the many Christmas markets in Spain today. The newspaper refers to communications from one of the jihadist organizations.more

A Polish woman, wanted by a Spanish court with a European Arrest Warrant, was detained in Katowice. Seven years ago, the woman left her Spanish partner, taking her four-year-old daughter with her. At present, everything indicates that the child's parents will amicably resolve the dispute.more

A British woman whose heart stopped beating for six hours has been brought back to life in what doctors have described as an "exceptional case".more

Bomb squad officers in Madrid have carried out a controlled explosion after a practice hand grenade was thrown over the wall of a centre for unaccompanied foreign minors in the north-east of the Spanish capital.more

The Basque Country Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Madrid to approve the independence referendum in the region. The document was supported by PNV and Bild, whose voices are being sought by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during the creation of a minority government.more

The Spanish government has published information on support for bullfighting, so-called korrides, on which promotion on the Internet the socialist cabinet spent 35 thousand in 2018 euro. National animal rights organizations have expressed their disapproval.more

The Madrid daily El Mundo revealed the details of the will that General Francisco Franco prepared several years before his death. The former dictator left his wife and daughter with assets exceeding 28.5 million pesetas, which is currently around 1.8 million euros.more

In Catalonia, police officers took over a dozen interventions yesterday against separatists organizing road blocks and railway junctions. Most of them took place in Barcelona.more