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Spanish firefighters continue battling fire north of Valencia
Aug 17, 2022 14:17Spanish firefighters and emergency units continue to battle an out-of-control wildfire near Begís, to the north-west of Valencia, where flames have burnt more than 700 hectares and forced the evacuation of several small villages.
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Around 1,500 people evacuated amid raging wildfire in northeast Spain
Aug 15, 2022 06:58A massive wildfire in drought-hit northeast Spain, which expanded alarmingly on Sunday, has forced the evacuation of eight villages and at least 1,500 people in Zaragoza Province, according to local reports citing firefighters.
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Spanish coast guard rescues 61 migrants at sea, one dead
Aug 10, 2022 16:42Spanish coast guards rescued 61 sub-Saharan migrants approaching Gran Canaria's coast in a wooden boat on Tuesday.
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Spain reports second monkeypox-related death in Europe
Jul 31, 2022 05:07Spain on Saturday reported its second monkeypox-related death, one day after announcing what is believed to be the first fatality linked to the current outbreak in Europe.
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Spain reports Europe's first monkeypox-related death
Jul 30, 2022 11:02Spain has reported what is believed to be Europe’s first monkeypox-related death in the current outbreak of the disease that began in early May.
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Attacks by racist mob force Spanish Gypsy people to flee homes
Jul 29, 2022 06:24Dozens of Gypsy people have been forced to abandon their homes in a small Andalucían town when a killing triggered a wave of racist violence
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Over 1,700 died in Spain, Portugal due to heatwave: WHO
Jul 23, 2022 12:13A ferocious heatwave that brought record temperatures to parts of Europe has resulted in the deaths of over 1,700 people on the Iberian Peninsula alone, according to the World Health Organization's European office.
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Brutal heatwave, wildfires engulf Europe, 2000 dead in Spain, Portugal
Jul 22, 2022 08:15More than 2,000 people have died in Spain and Portugal in recent weeks amid record-breaking temperatures, accompanied by massive wildfires that have forced thousands of people to flee their homes.
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37 migrants dead at Morocco-Spain land border amid police use of ‘violence’, rights groups call for probe
Jun 27, 2022 13:39Human rights groups in Spain and Morocco have demanded a probe into the deaths of at least 37 migrants after a mass attempt to scale the border fence into the Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Africa.
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Labor unrest spreads across Europe amid cost of living crisis
Jun 26, 2022 08:08Strikes in Europe's transport sector have disrupted air flights and train schedules as transportation companies struggle to cope with rising demand at the start of the peak summer travel season after the COVID restrictions were lifted.