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Five suspects in a migrant smuggling ring have been charged for helping smuggle migrants around the Melilla city wall by sea. 

Spain saw at least 4,202 illegal migrant arrivals in the first month of 2022, up 30.6 per cent compared to the same period last year.

Opposition parties in the Spanish parliament have accused the government of using blackmail tactics to pass mandatory outdoor mask-wearing.

Experts suggest face coverings are expected to remain mandatory on domestic and international flights for years to come.

Farmers, cattle-breeders, and hunters descended Sunday on the Spanish capital of Madrid to protest the government’s green agenda.

Spanish authorities have arrested 63 people accused of operating a human trafficking ring, importing women from China to two cities in Spain.

Europe’s security could be under threat as security scanners in sensitive spots were revealed Thursday to have been manufactured by a Chinese Communist Party-backed company.

A Spanish judge agreed that the potential risks to the child from the vaccine are higher than the benefits. 

A Spanish court has ruled that a mother who attempted to flee to Portugal to prevent her two children from being vaccinated cannot have any contact with them or approach them.

An accused leader of a child exploitation ring in Spain has been accused by authorities of prostituting his own daughter.

Christians throughout Spain and Latin America are preparing to celebrate January 6 – the Feast of the Epiphany, which marks the visit of the Three Wise Men to the baby Jesus – with pastries, parades, and gifts for children.

According to a human rights group, there were at last 4,400 deaths along migrant routes to Spain in 2021, a figure double of 2020.

A total of 13 Spanish Civil Guards were injured on Wednesday in Melilla after two migrant mobs numbering between 100 and 400 each attempted to violently storm the border.

According to the European Union border agency Frontex, illegal migration increased by 70 per cent in the first ten months of 2021 compared to the prior year.

Spain’s Catalonia region is to impose a “very restrictive” curfew in an attempt to reduce coronavirus cases, despite protests from the public prosecutor.

The socialist prime minister of Spain has mandated the wearing of masks OUTDOORS over fears regarding the omicron variant

The governments in Spain and Greece have announced that residents will be once again forced to wear masks in outdoor public settings.

LONDON (AP) – Nations across Europe are moving to reimpose tougher measures to stem a new wave of COVID-19 infections spurred by the highly transmissible omicron variant, triggering calls for protests from Paris to Barcelona.

Santiago Abascal, leader of Spanish populist party VOX, met with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro to discuss a common front against communism, saying patriots across the Atlantic should be united.

15 EU member-states have agreed to take in nearly 40,000 migrants from Afghanistan, with over half being taken in by Germany alone.

Spain’s birthrate declined by over five per cent during 2020, further reducing the already low birthrate in the country, while the mortality rate jumped nearly 18 per cent.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – The leaders of right-wing populist parties gathered Saturday in Warsaw to discuss how they can work together to bring change to the European Union, which they accuse of acting like a super-state that is eroding the traditions and powers of the EU’s 27 member nations.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has affirmed his support for Turkey becoming a member state of the European Union.

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that his country hopes to increase defense cooperation with NATO ally Spain through the purchase of a second aircraft carrier and possibly a submarine.

In 2020, the first year of the Wuhan virus pandemic, Spain recorded nearly 4,000 people taking their own lives — the highest number recorded since records began in 1906.

Six far-left Spanish anarchists have been released on bail conditions after being arrested for allegedly setting a police vehicle on fire during a riot with an officer inside.

MADRID (AP) – Spain’s health minister signed an order Friday granting single women, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people access to medically assisted reproduction in the public health system, where it is performed free of charge.

A member of the populist Spanish party VOX has accused the leftist Spanish government of increasing its immigration budget in order to demographically replace Spaniards.

Four North African migrants are alleged to have brutally beaten a 30-year-old Spanish woman in her own neighbourhood after accusing her of being “fascist”.

Anonymous Rescuers have saved three dogs that were trapped near the erupting Cumbre Vieja volcano located in the Canary Islands. Before the dogs were rescued by a group calling itself the “A Team,” the dogs were brought food and water by drone and an audacious plan to rescue them using drones was hatched by concerned citizens.

Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP) have presented a bill to the Spanish parliament that aims to end anonymity on social media.

A survey has revealed that 48.9 per cent of Spaniards would back forcing people in their country to take the coronavirus vaccine.

An Algerian linked to the Islamic State who was arrested by Spanish police and is believed to have led a terrorist cell in Barcelona came to Spain as an illegal immigrant.

The number of illegal migrant arrivals in Spain from January to the end of September has increased by 51 per cent, according to figures released by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior.

MADRID (AP) – Spain’s defence ministry has completed the evacuation of another 160 Afghans who had initially been left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

Six million people in Spain are in severe poverty, a figure that has increased by 50 per cent since 2018 as the pandemic fuels even more economic problems for Spaniards.