Less than two hours from Madrid, 76-year-old Francisca Benitez has to brush her teeth every night with bottled water because her village has no supply of drinking water.

Two people have been found dead in a migrant boat intercepted overnight off the coast of Spain's Canary Islands, local authorities said on Monday.

The government of the Kingdom of Spain welcomed the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which was brokered by the State of Qatar, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the United States, the United Nations and Jordan.

More than 2,200 people perished at sea trying to reach Europe last year, more than a third on the increasingly busy route to Spain's Canary Islands, the UN migration agency said on Friday.

A ban on wolf hunting in Spain's rural north is ratcheting up tension between agriculture and conservation, pitting farmers who fear for their livelihood against environmentalists who applaud the move.

A webinar between the Qatari Businessmen Association (QBA) and officials from Qatar and Spain Saturday highlighted the launch of the Qatari-Spanish Joint Business Council.

A former friend and lover of Spain's ex-monarch Juan Carlos testified under oath on Friday that the head of the intelligence service had threatened her life as he tried to recover financial documents involving the royal family in 2012.

Spain's ambassador to Qatar Belen Alfaro has affirmed that the bilateral relations between Qatar and Spain are firm and strong, praising the deep and developed relations between the two countries as many agreements in different fields are due in the future.

At least four people died when a boat carrying about 30 migrants sank off Spain's Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, emergency services said.

Spain would get the first vaccines against Covid-19 developed by US pharmaceuticals Pfizer and its partner BioNTech in early 2021, Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Tuesday.

Police in Spain made dozens of arrests during clashes with protesters for a second consecutive night as demonstrators took to the streets to denounce the new coronavirus restrictions.

A round of political consultations was held between the ministries of foreign affairs of Qatar and Spain via visual communication technology on Monday.