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Spain had warnings of mass migrant crossings into Ceuta, but not their scale, documents reveal

News Desk11th September 202615th September 2026

11th September 202615th September 20261698

Spain’s intelligence and security services had detected mounting migration pressure and received warnings of possible coordinated mass crossings into Ceuta before more than 70,000 people...

Spain’s police chief says Ceuta report does not attribute ‘planning or execution’ of migrant crisis to Morocco

News Desk2nd September 20268th September 2026

2nd September 20268th September 20261345

Spain’s National Police director has told Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska that a controversial intelligence report submitted to the National Court does not attribute the ‘planning...

Italy and Spain extend tit-for-tat border controls for another 15 days over Ceuta migrant crisis

News Desk1st September 20267th September 2026

1st September 20267th September 20261444

Italy and Spain are extending temporary border controls on travellers arriving from each other’s countries for a further 15 days, prolonging measures introduced in the...

Spanish PM backs Morocco over Ceuta migrant crisis as King Felipe visit is announced

News Desk31st August 20267th September 2026

31st August 20267th September 20261298

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has rejected suggestions that Morocco was behind the unprecedented migrant influx into Ceuta, insisting that cooperation with Rabat is essential...

Declassified documents in Spain lift shadow over former king Juan Carlos in 1981 coup

News Desk26th February 20265th March 2026

26th February 20265th March 20262198

For more than four decades, Spain’s failed military coup of 1981 has cast a lingering cloud over the reputation of the former king, Juan Carlos...

Spain rejects claim of involvement in alleged plot to destabilise Venezuela

News Desk15th September 202425th September 2024

15th September 202425th September 20242015

Spain has rejected allegations by Venezuela that it was involved in a plot to destabilise the government of the Latin American country, according to Spanish...

Spain’s Guardia Civil detain man for allegedly promoting IS terror online

News Desk26th March 20245th April 2024

26th March 20245th April 20242360

Spain’s Guardia Civil police said on Tuesday that they had arrested a man on suspicion of carrying out ‘intensive efforts to encourage terrorism’ and who...

Spying dossier on Catalan president Pere Aragonès to be ‘partially declassified’

News Desk16th January 202424th January 2024

16th January 202424th January 20242228

The Spanish cabinet has approved the ‘partial declassification’ of surveillance documentation concerning Catalan president Pere Aragonès [pictured with Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez], during 2020 when...

Two US embassy staff expelled by Spain over spying dispute

News Desk7th December 202312th December 2023

7th December 202312th December 20233411

Spain has expelled two US embassy staff who managed to infiltrate the Spanish Intelligence Service (CNI) by bribing two of its officers, El País newspaper...

Spain arrests two intelligence agents who allegedly passed secrets to the USA

News Desk5th December 202311th December 2023

5th December 202311th December 20239701

A Madrid judge has opened an investigation into two agents of the Spanish Intelligence Service (CNI) for an alleged leak of classified information to the United States,...

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