Spain

News Hour: Spain’s village of Casavieja observed its annual celebration of Saint Blaise on Friday, where masked 18-year-olds dress as “zarramaches”, a reference to their outlandish costumes topped by a multicoloured conical hat. Teenagers gather at...

News Hour: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a €700,000 contribution from the Government of Spain to support the health and nutritional status of pregnant and breastfeeding women in warn-torn Syria WFP will...

News Hour: With more than 100,000 people aged 100 or over, Spain is the country with the greatest life expectancy after Japan, OECD data and the latest population census shows. Over a year, Reuters photographer Andrea...

News Hour: Two adults and two children were killed on Sunday in a light aircraft crash in Toledo Province in central Spain, local emergency services have confirmed. The aircraft, which had taken off from the Cuatro...

News Hour: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a donation from the Government of Spain to help provide the basic food needs of Western Sahara refugees living in Algeria. The contribution, which totals...

News Hour: Wales conceded an agonising late equaliser as Serbia battled to a 1-1 draw in a World Cup qualifier on Saturday as former champions Italy and Spain both won 4-0. Earlier Saturday, the Republic of...

News Hour: Spain turns the page on a 10-month political crisis on Saturday as lawmakers ready to vote the conservatives back in power, although at the head of a government with the unprecedented opposition. Aided by...

News Hour: Dazzling clusters of cube-shaped houses perched on top of Andalusia’s olive tree-studded mountains, the “Pueblos Blancos”, or white villages, of southern Spain are named for the lime wash the buildings are painted with to...

News Hour: Spain hosted 10.1 million foreign tourists in August, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Friday, 5.8 percent more than a year earlier and marking a monthly record for arrivals as the influx of...

News Hour: At least 24 people, most of them tourists, were injured early on Wednesday when a coach crashed in Barcelona on its way to the airport, the emergency services said. Three of the injured were...