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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.

Spanish officials are investigating a possible Islamic terrorist motive following a deadly car crash at a bar in Murcia on Friday that left one man dead.

In just six weeks this summer, the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta has seen 952 asylum applications, nearly double that received in the first six months of this year, where there were 517 in total. 

A Spanish judge has opened an investigation into a young man accused of faking a homophobic hate crime for his own benefit.

Spain’s Interior Ministry has announced that it will be creating specialised “hate crime” groups within the national police and the Civil Gaurd to combat a reported rise in hate crimes.

A homosexual Moroccan migrant has claimed to have been the victim of a homophobic attack by a man in Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla, who told him the area was “Muslim territory”.

Adam Sandler has revealed that Netflix made him change a major plot element involving China in his new basketball-themed movie “Hustle” because the streamer doesn’t do business there.

Two Morrocan migrants have been arrested and another is on the run for allegedly drugging and attacking a 19-year-old.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Spanish Bishop Xavier Novell Gomà, who had come under fire for suggesting that male homosexuality can be correlated to “an absent and distant paternal figure.”

MADRID (AP) — The President of the European Commission has urged the international community to open arms for Afghan refugees.

Spanish populist Vox leader Santiago Abascal has called for Afghan refugees to be “welcomed in Muslim countries” while demanding the Spanish government evacuate citizens.

Spanish prosecutors have requested a 140-year prison sentence for a man accused of sexually exploiting children through Instagram.

Spanish populist party VOX has threatened legal action in Madrid if the government implements a so-called health pass that would require vaccination or a negative coronavirus test to enter certain businesses.

An 18-year-old Moroccan migrant has been placed in custody in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta after allegedly trying to slit the throat of a 24-year-old female NGO worker he was dating.

Conservative Spanish People’s Party leader Pablo Casado joined a protest against the Cuban government, stating that the Cuban regime was a “dictatorship”.

A jihadist wanted by Spain on a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) has been apprehended by Belgian police in the no-go zone of Molenbeek, Brussels, a notorious hotbed of radical Islamist activity.

The European Union is trying to put Spain in charge of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar’s borders in a Brexit side deal, which would include powers over issuing visas to British nationals.

Spain has arrested 18 people in a strike against a criminal network smuggling hundreds of Albanian illegal migrants into the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Spanish publication Diario de Cuba revealed on Friday that Spain’s economic records show sales of over 1.2 million Euros ($1.4 million) to the communist Castro regime in military equipment, including automatic weapons.

Populist party VOX has demanded the Spanish government condemn the Cuban regime as anti-government protests sweep through the Latin American country.

Spain´s Constitutional Court ruled that last year´s strict stay-at-home lockdown order by the government was unconstitutional.

The number of illegal migrants entering European Union member states has increased by 59 per cent in the first six months of this year, as a new route has opened along the border with Belarus.

The Spanish Council of Ministers has approved legislation that would allow people to change their gender on official documents without seeing a doctor for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

The EU said the number of people seeking protection hit its lowest level last year since 2013, but that was due mostly to coronavirus.

Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee, who sought the Libertarian Party nomination for President in 2016 and 2020, has been found dead in a prison cell in Spain, according to reports. The tech tycoon previously claimed that “if I suicide myself, I didn’t. I was whackd.”

The recently-elected conservative government in Madrid has proposed giving expecting mothers €14,500 (£12,456/$17,203) in financial aid as an incentive to increase the Spanish birth rate.

Spanish populist VOX party leader Santiago Abascal criticised the BLM-associated knee gesture at the Euro 2020 tournament and wanted the Spanish national football team not to do it.

The left-wing coalition plans to use a chunk of the $166 billion Spain is set to receive from the EU to kickstart its electric car industry.

Socialist President Alberto Fernández of Argentina apologized on Thursday after remarks the day before in which he implied that Argentine civilization was superior to that of its neighbors because Argentines “arrived on boats that came from Europe.”

Spanish police arrested a woman for cutting off the penis of her Bangladeshi boss while he was allegedly trying to rape her.

A 79-year-old woman was found eaten from the waist up by her pet cats after she died in her apartment in Madrid, Spain, from what neighbors believe was coronavirus.

As the world begins to travel again, Europe is sending migrants a loud message: Stay away!

Spanish intelligence services are on the search for several known jihadists who crossed into the country after returning from Syria. 

Two were arrested and seven police injured following rioting in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta during a visit by VOX leader Santiago Abascal. 

Two allies of Angela Merkel have called for Spain and Italy to build more migrant reception centres as arrivals continue to increase. 

MADRID (AP) — The parliament of Catalonia elected a new regional leader and government Friday, with the incoming administration vowing no let-up in the Catalan fight for independence from Spain.