Spanish King Felipe VI and Chinese President Xi Jinping have signed agreements on language exchanges and other areas as both sides vowed to strengthen their cooperation.

Robert Lewandowski grabbed a hat trick and Lamine Yamal scored the other goal as Barcelona beat Celta Vigo 4-2 to move within three points of Spanish league leader Real Madrid.

Local workers at some American military bases in Europe are feeling the impact of the U.S. government shutdown.

Rosalía’s surprise unveiling of the cover her new album has drawn criticism from Madrid’s mayor after thousands of fans of the pop star gathered in a flash mob in Spain’s capital on Monday.

Villarreal has blamed poor management by the Spanish league for the cancellation of its planned regular-season game against Barcelona in the United States.

Spanish police have arrested seven people suspected of stealing over 1,100 chairs from outdoor seating areas at restaurants and bars.

The Spanish league says plans for Barcelona to play a regular-season game against Villarreal outside Miami in December have been called off.

A potential stadium conflict could arise if the Miami Hurricanes host a first-round College Football Playoff game.

The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.

The Spanish league is finally playing a regular-season game in the United States.

Cycling team Israel Premier Tech has announced it is changing its name and moving away from its national identity.

A team of excavators has found $1 million in treasure from a centuries-old Spanish shipwreck off a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast.”.

Bad Bunny captivated audiences with his residency in Puerto Rico, inspiring patriotism and drawing half a million people to the island this summer.

Activists participating in a flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza say that some of their boats were attacked by drones overnight while sailing south of Greece.

Barcelona says its upcoming Champions League match against Paris Saint-Germain will be played at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium, its home for the previous two seasons.

The backlash against Israel over the humanitarian toll of the war in Gaza has spread into the arenas of sports and culture.

Lamine Yamal will not play in Barcelona’s Champions League opener at Newcastle on Thursday because of an injury.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for Israel to be banned from sports events.

Spanish authorities say more than 100,000 people took part in the pro-Palestinian protests that interrupted the final stage of the Spanish Vuelta and forced organizers to cut short the cycling Grand Tour event on Sunday, capping a campaign of disruptions.

Rosana Prieto and her village in northwestern Spain have used a major cycling race to protest Israel's military actions in Gaza.

Spain’s foreign minister says that he would support the expulsion of Israel Premier Tech from the Spanish Vuelta cycling race after the team was targeted by a pro-Palestinian protest that disrupted the event.

Some mortgage experts are using artificial intelligence to help Hispanic homebuyers navigate the loan application process.

Firefighters in Spain, Portugal and Greece are battling ongoing wildfires as hot, dry conditions persist.

Spain’s women’s national team is making a coaching change two weeks after reaching the final of the European Championship.

Authorities say France’s biggest wildfire this summer is spreading quickly in a Mediterranean region near the Spanish border after leaving one person dead.

French government ministers say a summer camp counselor has accused Spanish police of using brute force against her during the removal of a group of French Jewish teenagers from a plane bound for Paris from Spain.

Chelsea’s 3-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain averaged 1.3 million viewers on TBS and the 24 matches televised in the U.S. with English commentary averaged 458,000.

Thousands of daredevils have run, skidded and tumbled out of the way of a stampeding group of bulls at the opening run of the San Fermín festival.

The fate of Argentina’s state-run oil company has been thrown into doubt as a U.S. judge ordered the cash-strapped country to give up its 51% controlling stake in YPF.

The Spanish league says four people who hung an effigy of Real Madrid star Vinícius Júnior off a highway bridge two years ago have been convicted.

Water guns are back squirting at unsuspecting tourists in Barcelona.

Referees at the Club World Cup will wear eye-level cameras to finally allow fans to see exactly what the officials are looking at during a soccer match.

In the heart of Spain’s capital, the famous Sobrino de Botín restaurant proudly holds the title of being the world’s oldest restaurant.

Immigration raids across Southern California are rattling the area’s immigrant communities, even among those in the country legally.

Colombian authorities have charged a 15-year-old with attempted murder for the assasination attempt on Miguel Uribe, the conservative presidential candidate who was shot in the head this weekend and is now in critical condition.

New figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that 22% of U.S. residents spoke a language other than English at home.

Barcelona has clinched its 28th Spanish league title after Lamine Yamal starred in its 2-0 win at crosstown rival Espanyol.

Brazil is hoping to have a new national team coach in place this month ahead of its next two World Cup qualifiers but fans are growing impatient as negotiations with Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti drag on.

The National Weather Service is no longer providing translations of its products after its contract with an artificial intelligence company was allowed to lapse.

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Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior scored goals in a five-minute span in the first half and Real Madrid held on to beat Rayo Vallecano 2-1 and move level on points with Barcelona at the top of the Spanish league.

Barcelona’s home game against Osasuna in the Spanish league was postponed after the death of first-team doctor Carles Miñarro Garcia.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, and activists and advocacy groups are alarmed by what that will mean for non-English speakers when it comes to immigration, voter access and other issues.

A referee says Real Sociedad fans chanted “Die” at Real Madrid defender Raúl Asencio during the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals.

Kylian Mbappé’s replacement Endrick scored a first-half goal and Real Madrid won 1-0 at Real Sociedad in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals.

Barcelona and Atletico Madrid both rallied from two goals down in a frantic 4-4 draw in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals.

Police in Berlin say they have arrested a man suspected in a stabbing attack at the city's Holocaust Memorial that left one man seriously injured.

Former Spanish soccer boss Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of sexually assaulting player Jenni Hermoso for kissing her after the 2023 Women’s World Cup final.

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is launching a crusade against what he sees as the downsides of social media.

Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, his administration took down the Spanish version of the official White House website.

U.S. president Donald Trump has apparently confused Spain for a member of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, causing some head-scratching and jitters over possible tariffs in Madrid.

The European Union's border agency Frontex says that irregular migration into the European Union fell sharply in 2024.

Spain is planning a raft of measures to address its brewing housing crisis, including an up to 100% tax on properties bought by people who are neither citizens nor residents of the European Union.

Real Madrid came out looking for some payback in the latest “clasico” against Barcelona but ended up being embarrassed again.

The wives of two Mallorca players say they were harassed by local fans after a Spanish Super Cup game played in Saudi Arabia that ended in a victory for Real Madrid.

Jude Bellingham has scored again to lead Real Madrid into the Spanish Super Cup final after leading a 3-0 win over Mallorca in Saudi Arabia.

A Spanish migration rights group says more than 10,000 migrants died in 2024 trying to reach Spain by sea.

Isak Andic, the founder of Spanish fashion brand Mango, has died after suffering an accident, the company said in a statement.

A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board game’s Spanish-language world title.

Chinese electric battery company CATL and automaker Stellantis say they will build a major battery factory in northern Spain.

The Hospital de Jesus in Mexico City’s bustling historic center covers most of a city block.

A Spanish court has upheld a ruling that a supermarket worker was unlawfully fired for having eaten a croquette that was going to be thrown away after not having been sold from the store’s deli section.

The Spanish regional leader under fire for his handling of the catastrophic Valencia floods last month has defied calls to step down but conceded that mistakes were made.

Authorities say at least 10 people have died and others were injured in a fire at a nursing home near the northeastern Spanish city of Zaragoza.

New storms in Spain have caused school closures and train cancellations two weeks after flash floods in Valencia and other areas killed more than 220 people and destroyed thousands of homes.

Continuing storms in eastern Spain that led to massive flooding last week and killed over 200 people, mostly near Valencia, are dumping rain on Barcelona.

A crowd of enraged flood survivors pelted the Spanish royal couple with mud and rocks during their first visit to the center of the nation’s deadliest natural disaster in living memory.

Moments after rushing waters burst through the door to her home, Mari Carmen Pérez received a text message alert from regional Spanish authorities warning her of the possibility of flash floods.

At noon on Sundays in Worthington, Minnesota, an overflow crowd is still swaying to the Guatemalan band at Spanish-language Catholic Mass, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians are wrapping up their six-hour-long service, and at town’s edge among the cornfields, refugees from Southeast Asia gather to pray and sing in Karen at the Baptist church founded by Swedish farmers.

Immigration is a core issue for voters.

Crews are searching for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings as residents salvage what they can from ruined homes following monstrous flash floods in Spain that claimed at least 158 lives, with 155 people killed in one region alone.

The Copa del Rey matches involving Valencia and Levante have been postponed following floods that have killed at least 95 people and caused havoc in southern Spain.

Spanish midfielders Rodri and Aitana Bonmatí won the men’s and women’s Ballon d’Or award on Monday as the world’s best soccer players, while Real Madrid snubbed the star-studded ceremony in Paris in apparent protest.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez have inaugurated India’s first private military aircraft plant.

The school system in Aurora, Colorado, is striving to accommodate more than 3,000 new students mostly from Venezuela and Colombia.

Atletico Madrid is trying to bring a record number of spectators with disabilities to a Champions League match to raise awareness about inclusion and the need to promote better access to sport for disabled fans in venues across Europe.

Hurricane Milton is expected to unleash its greatest force over hundreds of thousands of immigrants who don’t speak English.

Barcelona has added former Poland goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny to its squad to help make up for the absence of the injured Marc-André ter Stegen.

Over the last few years, various terms have emerged to describe those in the U.S. with roots in Latin America and Spain.

Pedro Szalay's Dance Español program enriches Roanoke fourth graders by combining dance education with Spanish language lessons.

The board will hear from the administrator of the gifted programs on a dual language immersion academy.

Authorities say Moroccan security forces stopped groups of people who sought to force their way across the border into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta.

Former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has fled into exile after being granted asylum in Spain, delivering a major blow to millions who placed their hopes in his upstart campaign to end two decades of single-party rule.

A court in Thailand has found Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a member of a famous Spanish acting family, guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison in a lurid case that involved the victim being dismembered.

Officials in Spain say thousands of migrants have attempted to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the last few days, including hundreds of youth who tried to swim their way around controls.

Police in Barcelona have detained a fourth man accused of participating in the stabbing of the father of 17-year-old Spain soccer star Lamine Yamal.

Polish prosecutors say they have formally indicted a Russian-Spanish man of espionage.

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont says he plans to return to his country on Thursday despite the likelihood of being arrested on his return.

Kylian Mbappé has finally put on a Real Madrid jersey to fulfill his childhood dream in front of a packed Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

Lamine Yamal has become the youngest player ever to score at the European Championship.

President Donald Trump’s campaign has teamed up with the Republican National Committee and the Pennsylvania GOP to open a “Latino Americans for Trump” office in Reading.

Three Valencia fans have been handed eight-month prison sentences after pleading guilty to racially insulting Real Madrid forward Vinícius Júnior.

Spain says it will ask a United Nations court for permission to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.

Spain’s lower house of parliament has given final approval to a contentious amnesty law for hundreds of Catalan separatists involved in the illegal and unsuccessful 2017 secession bid.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has met with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa and leading officials from several Middle Eastern countries in Madrid a day after Spain, Ireland and Norway recognized a Palestinian state.

Colombia’s congress has voted to ban bullfights in the South American nation, delivering a serious blow to a centuries-old tradition that has inspired songs and novels but has become increasingly controversial in the countries where it is still practiced.

Spanish authorities say that a building housing a bar and restaurant that collapsed on Mallorca lacked the proper authorization.

Spain, Norway and Ireland have formally recognized a Palestinian state in a coordinated effort that adds more pressure on Israel to soften its devastating response to last year’s Hamas attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has secured from Spain a pledge of additional air defense missiles to help fight the about 3,000 bombs that he says Russia launches every month at Ukraine.