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Two men walk slowly in the middle of a street after a heavy snowfall in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. Spain is on high alert as a cold snap is covering much of the country with snow disrupting road, sea, rail and air traffic with the capital, Madrid enduring what the city's mayor described as &quot;the worst storm in 80 years.&quot; (AP Photo/Paul White)

Atlético vs Bilbao among postponements due to snowstorm

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Barcelona's Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal from the penalty spot during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Barcelona and Real Sociedad at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, March 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

Messi, Griezmann net 4 for Barça; Madrid held at Osasuna 0-0

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

A view shows the landscape covered with snow in Rivas in Rivas Vaciamadrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. Spain is on high alert Friday as a cold snap is covering with snow much of the country, causing disruptions in road, sea and air traffic while authorities warn that the worst may still be coming over the weekend. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Unusual snow kills 4, brings much of Spain to a standstill

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Staff from a restaurant take photos of each other on their outside terrace bar during snowfall in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Snow fell in the Spanish capital for the second day during a cold weather snap in the Iberian Peninsula. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Storm ‘Filomena’ blankets Spain with snow, disrupts traffic

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

4 die as migrant boat reaches Spain’s Canary Islands

By CIARÁN GILES - Associated Press

Men representing the Three Kings, wearing face masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus, arrive to distribute Christmas presents at the Canada Real shanty town, outside Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. Canada Real, a shantytown on the southern edge of Madrid and it has been without electricity since last October 2nd. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain tries to keep Epiphany tradition despite pandemic

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A woman walks at the border of Gibraltar with Spain, seen from the neighbouring Spanish city of La Linea on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. An 11th-hour breakthrough in protracted negotiations will keep open Gibraltar's border with Spain following the United Kingdom's full departure from the European Union. (AP Photo/Javier Fergo)

Virus, more than Brexit fallout, worry in and near Gibraltar

By EMILIO MORENATTI and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

British travelers returning to their homes in Spain wait to speak to airline staff after they were refused entry onto planes, at London's Heathrow airport on Saturday Jan. 2, 2021. Dozens of British residents in Spain were refused travel because airlines refused to take in as proof of residency documents used until the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union at midnight on Dec. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Max Duncan)

Britons flying home to Spain caught in post-Brexit red tape

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

U.K. reaches deal with Spain to keep open Gibraltar border

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Health staff worker prepares Pfizer coronavirus vaccine before vaccinating a health worker, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Tuesday Dec. 29. 2020. Spain plans to receive over 4.5 million doses of the vaccine over the next three months, enough it says to immunise just over 2.2 million people. The government estimates that this first phase will be enough to cover nursing home residents and workers, followed by health workers in general and people with disabilities. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Spain to keep registry of those who refuse COVID-19 vaccine

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019 file photo, an eerial view of Gibraltar rock seen from the neighbouring Spanish city of La Linea, during a general election in Gibraltar. (AP Photo/Javier Fergo, File)

Gibraltar’s border with Spain still in doubt after Brexit

By JOSEPH WILSON and BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 file photo, Spain's King Felipe VI waves as Queen Letizia walks with him at Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

Spain’s King demands model behavior amid father’s scandal

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

A ball bearing a ticket number falls from a giant drum at Madrid's Teatro Real opera house during Spain's bumper Christmas lottery draw known as El Gordo, or The Fat One, in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Spain’s ‘El Gordo’ Christmas lottery doles out big prizes

By CIARÁN GILES - Associated Press

Wearing protective suits, funeral home workers remove the body of an elderly person who died of COVID-19 at a nursing home while another resident sleeps in his bed in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. In 2020, Spaniards have normalized things unimaginable only 12 months before. But 2020 will also go down as the year in which an unknown virus shook the foundations of the social contract and threw into question a system that failed to prevent so many deaths. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A pandemic atlas: Spanish system fails, and the elderly die

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Senegal court sentences fathers for sons’ migration attempts

By CARLEY PETESCH and BABACAR DIONE - Associated Press

Spanish parliament approves left-wing govt’s 2021 budget

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Spanish minister condemns far-right chats of ex-military men

By Associated Press - Associated Press

A security guard walks in the empty Isabel Zendal new hospital during the official opening in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. Authorities in Madrid are holding a ceremony to open part of a 1,000-bed hospital for emergencies that critics say is no more than a vanity project, a building with beds not ready to receive patients and unnecessary now that contagion and hospitalizations are waning. Spain has officially logged 1.6 million infections and over 45,000 deaths confirmed for COVID-19 since the beginning of the year. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Without patients or staff, Madrid opens new $119M hospital

By IAIN SULLIVAN and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Migrants sit in Arguineguin port after their rescue in Gran Canaria island, Spain on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Spanish rescue services said Wednesday at least seven people died after a migrant boat carrying more than 30 people hit rocks close to a small port on the Canary Island of Lanzarote. Many of the rescued were taken to the Arguineguín dock on the southwestern coast of Gran Canaria island, where several thousand people of different origin are being kept, some in tents. (AP Photo/Javier Fergo)

Tensions rise over housing of migrants on Spanish islands

By RENATA BRITO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020 file photo, migrants from Morocco walk along the shore escorted by Spanish police after arriving at the coast of the Canary Island, crossing the Atlantic Ocean sailing on a wooden boat. Spain’s government is scrambling to manage the steady stream of migrants to its Canary Islands from West Africa by opening a second holding camp, officials said Wednesday Nov. 18, 2020, as political tensions rise in the Atlantic archipelago. (AP Photo/Javier Bauluz, File)

Spain opens 2nd migrant camp on overrun Gran Canaria island

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press