The Spanish Civil Guard is increasingly concerned about the use of war weapons by drug traffickers, including modern assault rifles and armor-piercing ammunition. This has led to calls for better equipment and legal protection for law enforcement officers facing heavily armed criminal organizations.
Spanish police raid Socialist Party HQ in Madrid as part of a National Court investigation into alleged corruption involving former party member Leire Diez, amid ongoing scandals affecting PM Pedro Sanchez's party.
A cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak arrived in Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday, where most of the nearly 150 people on board will be evacuated and flown home after weeks at sea. The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius arrived near the Spanish port of Granadilla escorted by a civil guard vessel, confirmed by data from the maritime tracking service VesselFinder. Passengers and some of the crew are expected to evacuate before the ship, where an outbreak of hantavirus led to the deaths of...
The Civil Guard found between 30,000 and 45,000kg of the drug on a freighter headed to Libya.
