The number of illegal migrants with infants in Spain reaching the Mediterranean Sea by 2018 increased to more than 900, seven times - according to figures from the Ombudsman in Madrid (DdP).more
The first woman recognised by Spanish courts as one of the "stolen babies" of the Franco dictatorship has discovered her biological family thanks to a DNA database.more
The second day of bull runs at the San Fermin festival left five people injured, including one with a minor goring Monday, Spanish health officials said.more
Six people, including four juvenile migrants, were injured as a result of an attack on the refugee center in El Masnou, Catalonia, in north-eastern Spain. Most of the pupils in the facility are underage immigrants from Morocco.more
Spain's Supreme Court has found five men who called themselves "The Pack" guilty of gang rape, refuting previous convictions of the lesser offence of sexual abuse in a case that shook the country. The Madrid-based tribunal sentenced each defendant to 15 years in prison, overturning two previous rulings in the case that sparked mass protests in Spain.more
A welcome dip in temperatures came to parts of Europe on Sunday, bringing relief to areas which have roasted through a widespread, deadly heatwave for nearly a week.more
Arrested in June Syrian citizens, who had lived in Toledo for several years, sent military equipment to Syrian Al-Qaeda troops. It arrived in containers from Spain via Turkey and the UAE to the Syrian city of Latakia - Spanish media reported.more
Wildfires raged on Thursday across nearly 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares) in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia and fire fighters said the area affected could increase significantly as a powerful heatwave grips the entire country.more
By the beginning of 2018, approximately 1,500 ISIS militants returned from the Middle East to Europe, according to a report published by the Spanish Institute of Security and Culture (ISC) yesterday.more
On the labor market in Spain, a record number of foreigners is employed: over 2.1 million - according to data published yesterday by the national social insurance institution (Seguridad Social) in Madrid.more
The natural demographic decline in Spain has reached a historic high, according to provisional data released by the country's National Statistics Institute (INE).more
Spain manager Luis Enrique has stepped down 'for personal reasons' and will be replaced by assistant Robert Moreno after less than a year in charge.more
Spain has risen to the top of the Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index, which ranks 169 economies according to factors that contribute to overall health.more
British intelligence agencies have warned that the ISIS terror group has plans to launch attacks this Summer on several Mediterranean countries, including Morocco, Tunisia, Spain, Greece, and Turkey.more
The trial of a five-member group of Moroccan and Mexican nationals accused of terrorism began yesterday in the Spanish National Court (Audiencia Nacional). They were to recruit radical Islamists in the Spanish mosques.more
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is set to roll out its 5G service in several Spanish cities on Saturday (June 15), making it one of the first European countries with the ultrafast mobile phone network.more
One of Madrid's top diplomats in Scotland has been fired after saying that Spain would not block an independent Scotland's accession to the EU, according to Spanish media.more
Almost half of Poles who are going on holiday this year will go abroad. This year the most popular among the respondents are Croatia, Greece and Spain.more
The Supreme Court of Spain ordered the government to stop the exhumation of General Francisco Franco. On June 10, the political ashes were to be transferred from the mausoleum of the civil war in the Valley of the Fallen to the sub-cemetery of El Pardo-Mingorrubio.more
Poland's Ambassador to Spain Marzenna Adamczyk intervened with the Spanish-Catalonian news website Diari de Tarragona protesting when its producer Josep Garriga called former German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp "Polish".more
