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Hundreds of protesters in the capitals of Italy and Spain have waged rallies to demand higher wages as well as a halt to the shipment of weapons to Ukraine. While calling for peace in the Ukraine conflict, the Italian protesters on Friday further demanded from the ruling right-wing government in …

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday announced the government would invest 1.3 billion euros ($1.43 billion) in vocational training. The measure will be approved at next week’s cabinet meeting and will create 45,000 bilingual vocational training places, 824 new training centers, and more than 1,500 classrooms for applied technology …

Firefighters said on Saturday they had stopped Spain’s first major wildfire of the year from spreading further through the eastern Valencia region, where it destroyed more than 4,000 hectares (9,884 acres) of forest and forced 1,500 residents to abandon their homes. An unusually dry winter across parts of southern Europe …

Two of the club’s former presidents, Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell and the former refereeing chief Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira are facing the same charge. SPANISH PROSECUTORS on Friday charged Barcelona with corruption over payments the club made to a former refereeing chief’s company. Two of the club’s former …

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has arrived in Ukraine to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion, Sanchez’s office said on Thursday. On his arrival in Kyiv, Sanchez was received by Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister, the Ukrainian ambassador in Madrid, and the Spanish …

Thousands of people protested in Madrid Saturday against Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s leftist government in a rally held in a key election year that was backed by far-right party Vox. Participants waved red and yellow Spanish flags and called on Sanchez to resign. Some held up signs with a photo …

European natural gas prices have hit new records in the aftermath of sanctions targeting Russia’s energy sector, prompting several European countries such as Italy and Spain to take new measures to bring the crisis under control. Europe’s benchmark Dutch TTF gas contract advanced to 318 euros per megawatt on Thursday, …

A cry of “run, run, run, run” rang out across the hillside as a wall of flame fed by high winds swept down towards four Spanish firefighters, engulfing tinder-dry bracken seconds after they fled for their lives. The wildfire they were battling on Wednesday was in the eastern Valencia region, …

Smoke from a huge wildfire in central Portugal enveloped skyscrapers known as the “Four Towers” in Madrid 400 km (250 miles) away on Tuesday, and residents of the Spanish capital complained of a strong burning smell. The fire, which has ravaged Portugal’s Serra da Estrela national park, started on August …

PM Pedro Sanchez said the breakaway region’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia violated international law

A cargo train has hit a rush-hour passenger train in Catalonia, killing an engineer and injuring 85 people, Spanish authorities and the regional rail company said. Emergency crews said they were helping to remove about 100 people from the passenger train. The accident happened about 6 pm on Monday 15km …

The land borders between Morocco and Spain’s North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla will reopen next week, Spain said Thursday, after being closed for more than two years due to COVID-19 restrictions and tensions between the two countries. Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters the reopening will start …

Spain’s government on Tuesday sacked the country’s spy chief as part of a widening scandal over the hacking of the mobile phones of the prime minister and Catalan separatist leaders.

Morocco foiled 63,121 illegal immigration attempts in 2021, the interior ministry said in a report published on Saturday.

At least 17 people were injured, most of them lightly, in a strong explosion that rocked a four-story building being renovated in central Madrid on Friday, Spanish authorities said, and rescue teams were searching for people potentially trapped inside. Four people were taken to hospital, one in serious condition, Madrid …

Spanish authorities have detected “Pegasus” spyware in the mobile phones of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Defence Minister Margarita Robles, the government minister for the presidency, Felix Bolanos, said on Monday. Bolanos told a news conference Sanchez’s phone was infected in May 2021 and at least one data leak occurred …

Spain’s King Felipe VI disclosed that his wealth is worth about 2.6 million euros ($2.8 million) as the government pushes rules to make the Royal House more transparent and end the opaqueness that prevailed during the reign of his father Juan Carlos. The king’s assets include just under 2.3 million …

Denmark and Spain’s prime ministers on Thursday pledged to send more weapons to Ukraine during a trip to Kyiv, where they met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a gesture of support. Spain has sent a new batch of 200 tons of ammunition and military supplies to Ukraine, more than doubling the …

Spain’s Civil Guard says it is investigating a businessman in the eastern Valencia region who owned a private taxidermy collection with more than 1,000 stuffed animals, including just over 400 from protected species and at least one specimen of a North African oryx, already extinct. The collection would fetch 29 …

Spain says the meeting is an opportunity to open a ‘new stage’ in ties with Morocco-based on ‘mutual respect’ and ‘avoid future crises’. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is set to meet Moroccan King Mohammed VI during a two-day visit to Rabat that seeks to mark an easing of diplomatic …