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WATCH: Blinken holds joint news briefing with Spanish Foreign Secretary José Manuel Albares Bueno

By News Desk

Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a news briefing Wednesday afternoon with Spanish Foreign Secretary José Manuel Albares Bueno after the two participated in a memorandum of understanding signing ceremony on the Global Equality Fund.

Spain pleads for EU crisis funds as extreme drought hits farmers

By Jennifer O'Mahoney, Sergio Rodrigo, Associated Press

Spain's Agriculture Minister Luis Planas has requested emergency funds from the European Union to support farmers and ranchers amid extreme drought conditions in the country's agricultural heartlands.

Spain’s government under pressure to do more to combat gender-based crime

By Raquel Redondo, Associated Press

A spate of gender-based violence, coupled with the early release of several sex offenders, has increased pressure on Spain's left-wing government, which strongly plays up its feminist credentials, to do more to protect women from abuse.

France, Spain to require negative COVID tests for China passengers

By Associated Press

France says it will require negative COVID-19 tests of all passengers arriving from China and is urging French citizens to avoid nonessential travel to China.

Suspicious parcel detonated at U.S. Embassy in Madrid after Ukrainian Embassy blast

By Ciarán Giles, Associated Press

Spanish officials say a suspicious parcel has been discovered at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid and detonated by police.

Colombian pop singer Shakira to face trial over tax fraud in Spain

By Associated Press

Spanish prosecutors accused the entertainer in 2018 of failing to pay 14.5 million euros ($13.9 million) in taxes on income earned between 2012 and 2014.

Spain and Brazil report monkeypox deaths

By Joseph Wilson, Maria Cheng, Associated Press

The ministry based in Madrid said both fatalities were young men. It reported its first death on Friday, the same day that Brazil also reported its first death from monkeypox.

Europe’s heat wave continues to fuel fires in France, Spain

By Bob Edme, John Leicester, Associated Press

French authorities evacuated thousands of people and scrambled firefighters to battle flames. Two people were killed in the blazes in Spain that the country's prime minister linked to climate change.

Wildfires scorch France, Spain as Europe contends with extreme heat wave

By Angela Charlton, Joseph Wilson, Associated Press

Firefighters are struggling to contain wildfires in France and Spain as Europe wilts under an unusually extreme heat wave that authorities link to a rise in excess mortality.

Wildfires rage across Europe amid record heatwave

By Joseph Wilson, Angela Charlton, Associated Press

Fire season has hit parts of Europe earlier than usual this year after an unusually dry, hot spring that left the soil parched and which authorities attribute to climate change.