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The LGBTQ community in Spain has advocated abstinence and the limiting of sexual partners to fight the monkeypox outbreak.

MADRID (AP) – Spain has reported a second death in as many days from monkeypox, its health ministry said Saturday.

Spain’s leftist government is pushing for more migrant workers and an illegal aliens amnesty to fill gaps in the workforce, despite the country having one of the highest rates of unemployment in the European Union.

The Spanish Civil Guard rescued a minor girl from a radical Islamic extremist after the girl disappeared earlier this month. 

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) – The third bull run of Pamplona’s San Fermín Festival ended Saturday with the event’s first gorings of the year.

In the first several months of this year, the city of Barcelona has seen a surge in rapes and sexual assaults, as the city’s mayor plans to sign a new protocol to tackle sexual violence.

President Joe Biden held a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Japan and South Korea – Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and President Yoon Suk-yeol, respectively – in Spain on Wednesday in which the two conservatives pressed Biden to prioritize the threat from communist North Korea.

The president held a joint news conference with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez after traveling to Spain for a NATO meeting with European leaders.

Spain has blamed people-trafficking “mafias” for the deaths of an estimated 23 to 37-plus migrants during an attempt to break through border fences.

A Spanish judge ruled an eight-year-old can change the gender on their birth certificate, saying they are sufficiently mature to decide. 

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez described a deadly migrant rush on the border from Morocco as an attack on Spain’s “territorial integrity”.

Spain’s conservatives made huge gains in the traditionally left-wing Andalusian regional election Sunday, and the populists also made gains.

The average age of a first-time mother has risen to 33 years old, as the country faces plummeting birth rates and a demographic crisis. 

Officials said Monday 22 people were hospitalized after a regional passenger train and a locomotive collided head-on in northeastern Spain.

Two Moroccan migrants were arrested by Spanish authorities this week for allegedly sexually abusing at least eight girls, including three minors, as police say there could be even more victims.

EU leaders have echoed pre-existing fears that the ongoing global food crisis could lead to the next European migrant crisis.

Spain saw its marriage rate fall by nearly half in the first year of the Wuhan pandemic, a faster fall than many other EU nations.

The president of the Spanish pharmaceutical company PharmaMar is one of the over 2,200 people listed by Spanish police as having purchased fake coronavirus vaccination documents.

Spain will tighten control over the national intelligence agency after it admitted spying on several pro-independence supporters.

The Biden administration has reportedly invited Spain to attend the Summit of the Americas, scheduled next month in Los Angeles. The summit was already controversial in Latin America because the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua were not invited to attend. The invitation to former regional colonial power Spain could become a further irritation.

Dr. David Heymann said the leading theory was sexual transmission among gay and bisexual men at two raves held in Spain and Belgium.

Spanish populist Party VOX has defended the return of abdicated King Juan Carlos after the former monarch had been away from the country for nearly two years after prosecutors dropped financial investigations. VOX MP Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, the party’s

A host of EU nations have insisted that they will keep forcing plane passengers to wear masks, despite the EU lifting its bloc-wide requirement on Monday.

The government of the Spanish autonomous region of Valencia has proposed banning prostitution, claiming it violates the fundamental human rights of women. Valencia’s Ministry of Justice and Interior, headed by socialist politician Gabriela Bravo, is seeking to put an end to prostitution

The Socialist government of Spain is set to become the first country in Europe to offer women monthly leave from work for menstruation.

Spanish Minister of Equality Irene Montero is finalising the reveal of a rule that will allow minors above the age of 16 to seek abortion procedures without needing the permission of their parents. Girls aged 16 and 17 will again be

Spanish authorities have arrested and placed under investigation five young men, all linked to a radical party in Pakistan, who are believed to have glorified terrorist attacks, including the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty. All five of the young men

Police say they found a loaded anti-tank weapon at an address in the city of Zaragoza as well as the victim of an apparent drug overdose.

Police in the Spanish city of Bilbao are hunting down an alleged serial killer who is believed to have murdered four gay men since 2021 by luring them on the gay dating app Grindr. UPDATE 06/05/22: Suspect turns himself over,

Over 3,000 people are said to have gone missing or died at sea trying to reach Europe over the course of last year, according to the UNHCR.

The Spanish Interior Ministry has warned prison guards and other prison officials to take extreme caution over threats to their safety from Jihadi inmates after threats made in a radical Islamic magazine. the Interior Ministry warned prison employees to take

Algeria has threatened to suspend its gas exports to Spain, the latest twist in a complex triangle of diplomatic tensions.

The Spanish leftist government, along with neighbouring Portugal, have moved to cap gas prices at 50 euros per megawatt-hour in a bid to reduce growing electricity costs for citizens and businesses. Both Spain and Portugal announced Tuesday that they have

The government revoked the nationality of 78 babies from Moroccan mothers who lied about the father of their child being Spanish. 

Figures from the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE) have revealed that the Spanish population increased by over 50,000 people last year, with all of the growth driven by immigration.

The leftist leaders of Germany, Spain, and Portugal urged the French public to back incumbent President Macron over Marine Le Pen.