Spanish police seize 11 tonnes of cocaine hidden in shipping containers
Spanish authorities have confiscated 11 tonnes of cocaine and arrested 20 people in two different operations against the smuggling of the illegal drugs inside shipping...
Galicia
Woman dies in Madrid from fallen tree, as Storm Ciarán sweeps across Western Europe
With Storm Ciarán sweeping across Western Europe and battering parts of Spain with heavy rains and gale force winds of up to 150kmh, emergency services in...
Four killed, including three children, in apartment fire in Vigo, Galicia
A fire in an apartment building that was reportedly occupied by squatters in the city of Vigo (Galicia) killed four people, including three children, municipal...
Spain’s disgraced former king makes third visit home since moving to Abu Dhabi
Spain’s disgraced former king Juan Carlos I arrived in Spain on Wednesday for his third visit home since moving to Abu Dhabi in 2020 amid...
Spain’s former king Juan Carlos makes second visit home … via Chelsea
Spain’s disgraced former king Juan Carlos returned home on Wednesday for the second time since he went into self-imposed exile in Abu Dhabi in 2020...
Guardia Civil in Galicia refloat homemade suspect ‘narco submarine’
The Guardia Civil police in Galicia this week refloated a homemade semi-submersible vessel that they suspect may have been used to transport cocaine. The 16-metre...
Spain’s Crown Princess Leonor to start three years of military training
Spain’s Crown Princess Leonor is set to begin three years of military training in September as she prepares to one day take the throne, the...
Death toll rises to seven after bus crash in Galicia
Authorities in Galicia found the body of a woman on Monday, making a total of seven people who died following a bus crash in the...
Former rail safety director pleads innocence in trial of 2013 train crash
The former head of safety for Spain’s state-owned rail infrastructure company, ADIF, told a court on Thursday that he was not responsible for the 2013...
Spain starts trial of 2013 train crash in Galicia that killed 80 and injured over 140
A major trial opens on Wednesday in Spain to determine responsibility for the country’s worst rail disaster in nearly eight decades. The accident happened on...
