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The machete-wielding Moroccan jihadist Yassine Kanjaa who attacked Christians at church in southern Spain this week had been under a deportation order since June that was never acted upon, Associated Press reports.

A woman named Maria Branyas Morera is confirmed as the world’s oldest living person, Guinness World Records announced on January 19.

Several churchmen were stabbed in attacks, allegedly by a Moroccan, in two churches in Spain leaving one dead and others seriously injured.

A raid on an illegal tobacco factory in Spain found 10 Ukrainians who were being exploited, a Spanish Civil Guard spokesperson said Monday.

The Spanish national leftist government has threatened to take the region of Castille and León to the constitutional court over proposed pro-life policies aimed at reducing abortions in the region. The Spanish Ministry of Health has called on the region

The populist vice president of the Spanish region of Castille and León has announced pro-life measures designed to help women avoid seeking abortions.

Farmers protested in Madrid against a governmental order to provide protection for a river, a move that could threaten crop irrigation.

Christians around the world marked the holiday of Epiphany on Friday with parades, toy distributions, and local water traditions — a way of welcoming the Magi to Bethlehem following their journey to visit the baby Jesus.

Spanish influencer Elena Huelva has died at the age of 20 after losing her battle with cancer and posting a heartbreaking farewell video to social media.

The government of Morocco on Sunday became the first country to ban travelers from China outright as a massive wave of Chinese coronavirus sweeps across that country.

Spain’s ruling leftist parties have blamed each other after the country saw a record number of murders of women in December. 

The bodies of 13 Moroccans have been recovered after their boat sank while attempting to reach Spain’s Canary Islands.

Even before counting Ukrainian refugees, Europe saw migrant arrivals at levels not seen since the 2015-16 crisis this year.

The end of 2022 brings with it a host of campaign seasons across the planet, set to change the way major states are governed and how they interact with each other.

Spain will require all air passengers coming from China to have negative COVID-19 tests or proof of vaccination, the government said Friday.

An NGO has claimed that since 2018, an average of six migrants have died trying to reach Spain per day, killed by people smugglers. 

A 54-year-old man was arrested by police for allegedly causing at least 19 forest fires in the province of Cáceres over the last two years.

The commercial features a grandpa who learns how to apply makeup in order to support his transgender grandson.

A growing number of Syrian Kurds are going to Europe on a winding course that includes Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and a boat to Spain.

Spanish conservatives set to hold a one-day conference alongside feminists as both oppose a transgender law proposed by the left-wing govt.

Spanish authorities have intercepted three new packages addressed to consulates of Ukraine in Spain containing animal eyes. 

Two trains collided near Barcelona early Wednesday, injuring 155 people but none seriously, Spanish officials said.

Several embassies of Ukraine in various European countries received bloody packages on Friday, one containing animal eyes, just days after the country’s embassy in Spain received a letter bomb.

Border police dismantled a major trafficking network in the southern city of Perpignan, accused of smuggling over 200 migrants into France. 

Three stowaways were discovered perched on the rudder of a ship following a journey from Nigeria, and the men were later hospitalized, according to Spanish officials.

Law enforcement authorities in six different countries have joined forces to take down a “super cartel” of drugs traffickers.

An Algerian migrant who arrived illegally was arrested just two days later for allegedly sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl. 

Police in the Spanish city of Barcelona claim that 76 per cent of all their arrests in the first six months of this year were foreigners.

A senior member of Spanish populists VOX announced the party will pursue a national referendum on immigration.

The NGO migrant “taxi” ship Ocean Viking has called on France, Spain, and Greece – but apparently no African or Middle Eastern countries – to find them a port to drop off over 200 migrants after Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi refused access to Italian ports.

Spain and France were forced to shut down flights at several airports as an out of control 24 tonne Chinese rocket hurtled back towards Earth. 

A poll reveals 66 per cent of Spaniards would set limits to the proposed “Trans Law” allowing minors to change their gender by request. 

The figures underline the ruthlessness of smugglers leading migrants to their deaths while making a fat profit out of human suffering.

A chief inspector in Valencia, Spain has been relieved of duty after saying that nearly all of the street crime in his community involved illegal immigrants.

A Spanish municipality handed out several 300 euro fines to local farmers because one of their cows mooed above the allowed decibel limit.

Spanish capital to return 1.7 million of fines from Spain’s first ‘state of alarm’ during the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.