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Spain toughened its nationwide lockdown on Saturday, halting all non-essential activities as it stepped up its fight against the deadly coronavirus epidemic that has so far claimed 5,690 lives.
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Meet Sara, Regina, Sonia and Irene, healthcare workers on the frontline of the battle against the coronavirus epidemic that has brought Spain's hospitals to the brink of collapse.Here they talk to AFP about what they have seen and how they are coping.
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Spain's armed forces on Tuesday asked NATO for humanitarian assistance to fight the novel coronavirus as the national death toll touched 2,700 and infections soared towards 40,000.
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By AFP
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At the foot of the skyscrapers in Madrid's business district, the streets are empty as the city silently marks day 10 of lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
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By AFP
Madrid -
Spain's armed forces on Tuesday asked NATO for humanitarian assistance to fight the novel coronavirus as the national death toll touched 2,700 and infections soared towards 40,000.
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By AFP
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In Italy, Spain and France, old people's homes have been ravaged by coronavirus with the elderly and the infirm taking the brunt of the epidemic as it spreads like wildfire across Europe.
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By AFP
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Spanish soldiers deployed to help fight the new coronavirus outbreak have found elderly patients abandoned, and sometimes dead, at retirement homes, as an ice rink inside a Madrid shopping mall was turned into a temporary morgue to cope with a surge in...
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By AFP
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Spain's prime minister said Sunday he would ask parliament to extend a state of emergency until April 11 to try to curb the spread of coronavirus after the country recorded 394 new deaths from the disease.
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By AFP
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Spain's prime minister said Sunday he would ask parliament to extend a state of emergency until April 11 to try to curb the spread of coronavirus after the country recorded 394 new deaths from the disease.
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By AFP
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Spain on Saturday reported a 32 percent spike in new deaths from the coronavirus, bringing the country total to 1,326 fatalities, the second highest in Europe after Italy.
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By AFP
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King Felipe VI of Spain moved Sunday to distance himself from his scandal-hit father, stripping him of his palace allowance and renouncing what he was due to inherit from him.
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By AFP
Madrid -
Spain on Saturday followed Italy and imposed a near total nationwide lockdown to fight the spread of coronavirus by banning people from leaving home except to go to work, get medical care or buy food.
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By AFP
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With Madrid schools shut over coronavirus fears, 74-year-old Ramon Millan will cross the city by metro every day to mind his grandson, despite heightened risks to the elderly posed by the deadly epidemic.
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By AFP
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Thousands of national police held a tense demonstration in Madrid on Tuesday, demanding salaries in line with those of their better-paid counterparts in other Spanish regions.
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Spain's leftwing government on Tuesday unveiled draft legislation toughening the penalties for rape and requiring explicit consent for sexual acts following a notorious gang rape that shocked the country.
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By AFP
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Exiled Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont still hopes the dialogue underway between Spain and his region will lead to an authorised independence referendum, like the one once held in Scotland.
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By AFP
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Jailed Catalan leader Oriol Junqueras, who is serving 13 years for a failed 2017 independence bid, left prison Tuesday to teach in university as part of a day-release programme.
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By AFP
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Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain over a failed 2017 independence bid, on Saturday exhorted tens of thousands of supporters to keep up the struggle, at a giant rally in southern France, near the Catalan border.
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Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain over a failed 2017 independence bid, is expecting to draw vast crowds of supporters to a rally on Saturday in southern France near the Catalan border.
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Hala and Alex learned to cook with their mothers, Yoli learnt while preparing meals for her large family.
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Incessant snowfall and avalanches have forced teams to abandon their bid to achieve the first winter ascent of Everest in more than quarter of a century.
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Scandal-hit opera star Placido Domingo on Thursday rowed back on an apology he made over sexual harassment allegations just two days earlier, after his mea culpa triggered a backlash and cancellations in Spain.
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By AFP
Madrid -
Spain's prime minister opened talks with Catalan separatists on Wednesday to try and defuse a crisis over the region's separatist push that could hold the key to the survival of his minority government.
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By AFP
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Spain on Wednesday issued assurances that a cluster of new coronavirus infections did not risk a broader spread, after ten cases were detected since Monday evening.
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By AFP
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Hundreds of people were confined to a Tenerife hotel Tuesday after an Italian tourist was hospitalised in a suspected case of coronavirus, officials in Spain's Canary Islands said."Hundreds of hotel clients are being monitored for health reasons..
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All eight airports on Spain's Canary Islands reopened on Monday a day after a sandstorm shrouded the archipelago, forcing their closure, the transport ministry said.
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Airports on Spain's Canary Islands were closed again Sunday after a sandstorm hit the archipelago, airport authorities said.
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The billionaire owner of Venezuela's Globovision TV network has been summoned to appear at Spain's top criminal court next week as part of a money-laundering investigation involving embezzled funds from state oil company PDVSA, court sources said Thurs...
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Spanish police have rescued six workers who were left trapped and gasping for air in a counterfeit cigarette factory located in a bunker four metres (13 feet) underground, police and Europol said Thursday.
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Organisers of the World Mobile Congress said Wednesday they have cancelled the world's top mobile trade fair due to fears stemming from the coronavirus that sparked an exodus of industry heavyweights.
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Beaches of Fuengirola, Costa del Sol, Spain
Volvo put together a fully interactive film of the running of the bulls to promote their new trucks. YouTube
Search and rescue helicopter
Chilimosa Tarifa - vegetarian restaurant and takeaway in Tarifa, Spain.
A stroll around old town Tarifa on the Costa de la Luz in southern Spain - water fountain.
Robbers dug the perfect tunnel from an empty house, over a distance of two streets to the Banco Popular in the center of Elche, Spain only to be foiled in their robbery. Video screengrab
Dog and cat friends in Fuengirola, Spain - Hasha giving Nanu a little hell.
Ángela Covadonga Bachiller, Spain's first Down Syndrome Councillor starts her job with the Valladolid city council. Down España
Smoke from a fire spreading in the countryside can be seen from Fuengirola on the coast.
Evening view of the tropical garden in Atocha railway station, Madrid. Panhard
A young bull escaped in Málaga, Spain and was caught by pedestrians. YouTube
A view of the Tramuntana mountains in Mallorca after the serious forest fire in July 2013. Video screengrab
Every April an international fair is held in Fuengirola - Poland.
In a "scrum" caused by crowds at the running of the bulls, around 21 people were injured, some seriously, on July 13, 2013. YouTube
40 arty goats brighten up Calle Larios in Málaga, Spain Video screengrab
Abstract: Reflections in Fuengirola port.
Artist's conception of Turiasaurus riodevensis, Europe's largest dinosaur yet. AAAS/Science & Carin L. Cain
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