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Wildfire emergency deepens as royals visit evacuees and new Valencia blaze forces thousands to flee

News Desk26th July 202631st July 2026

26th July 202631st July 20261451

Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visited evacuees from the country’s devastating wildfires on Sunday, praising the ‘exemplary coordination’ of the emergency response as...

Spain declares first national wildfire emergency as blazes rage, while France battles mass evacuations

News Desk24th July 202626th July 2026

24th July 202626th July 20262150

Spain has declared a national emergency for the first time in response to wildfires after a series of rapidly spreading blazes around Madrid and th...

Spain faces escalating wildfire crisis as Sánchez warns climate emergency cannot be ignored

News Desk22nd July 202624th July 2026

22nd July 202624th July 20261654

Spain’s largest wildfire of the year has now burned more than 32,000 hectares in the central province of Guadalajara (Castilla-La Mancha), becoming one of the biggest blazes...

More than 12,000 hectares destroyed as Aragón faces escalating wildfire crisis

News Desk17th July 202620th July 2026

17th July 202620th July 20261687

A wildfire that has been burning across northeastern Spain for the past two days has grown into one of the Aragón region’s largest and most...

Sánchez praises firefighters and calls for climate action as identification of wildfire victims begins

News Desk13th July 202620th July 2026

13th July 202620th July 2026945

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited the scene of one of Spain’s deadliest wildfires in recent history on Monday, calling for a national commitment to...

At least 12 dead as devastating wildfire tears through southern Spain during heatwave

News Desk10th July 202612th July 2026

10th July 202612th July 20261650

LATEST: Almeria wildfire stabilised as investigators work to identify victims and missing. A devastating wildfire that swept through a hamlet in southern Spain has killed...

Firefighters contain much of Costa Brava wildfire after tourists evacuated and thousands confined

News Desk3rd July 20266th July 2026

3rd July 20266th July 20263858

Update: On Sunday the regional Catalan government lifted the lockdown that had confined 12,000 residents to their homes as firefighters contained the blaze that had...

Spain joins international relief effort after devastating Venezuela earthquakes

News Desk25th June 202630th June 2026

25th June 202630th June 20261227

Spain has joined a growing list of countries offering assistance to Venezuela after two powerful earthquakes devastated parts of the South American nation, with Prime...

Thousands evacuated in Andalusia as Storm Leonardo leaves homes without power, towns cut off

News Desk4th February 20268th February 2026

4th February 20268th February 20263088

Storm Leonardo reached Spain’s southern Andalusia region on Wednesday, with forecasts warning of up to 400 litres of rain per square metre in some areas,...

Spanish army’s emergencies unit deployed to help combat African swine fever detected outside Barcelona

News Desk1st December 20258th December 2025

1st December 20258th December 20251515

Spain has sent more than 100 members of its military to assist in containing an outbreak of African swine fever detected just outside Barcelona —...

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