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Chinese President Xi Jinping, right and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speak as they walk along the gardens of Diaoyutai Guest House after a meeting in Beijing, China, Friday, April 11, 2025. (Andres Martinez Casares/Pool Photo via AP)
China’s Xi tells Spanish PM that partnership needed, no mention of talks with US
China and the West should join in supporting multilateralism and open cooperation, Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Spain’s visiting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, underscoring China’s opposition to U.S. demands amid global economic uncertainty caused by a chaotic U.S. tariff policy.
 
The belfry an 11th century Romanesque church emerges from the Sau reservoir, about 100 km (62 miles) north of Barcelona, in Vilanova de Sau, Spain, on Monday, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A parched Spain has emerged from drought only to face floods
Drought relief has come at a price in Spain, as flash floods forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes, closed schools and highways and swept cars away.
 
French wine grower David Levasseur opens a bottle of champagne in his wine making facility in Cuchery, eastern France, Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Trump’s 200% tariff threat would be ‘a real disaster’ for Europe’s wine industry
The number 200 is top of mind across wine country in France, Italy and Spain, Europe’s top producers of wine. That’s because last week, U.S.
 
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU Summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)
Spain told European allies it would spend more on defense, faster. Back home, it’s a harder sell
Spain’s prime minister has tried to assure European allies that his country is willing to spend more on defense as the continent scrambles to rearm.
 
A visitor views the Impressionist painting called "Rue St.-Honore, Apres-Midi, Effet de Pluie" (“Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain") painted in 1897 by Camille Pissarro, on display in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum May 12, 2005, in Madrid. (AP Photo/Mariana Eliano, File)
The US high court revives a case around Nazi-looted impressionist painting in Spanish museum
The U.S. Supreme Court has revived a case that could decide the ownership of a French impressionist painting that was once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman.
 
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a media conference at an EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File)
European leaders downplay skepticism from Trump about NATO solidarity
European Union leaders on Friday downplayed skepticism from U.S. President Donald Trump about solidarity among NATO members. Their comments came after EU leaders backed plans to spend more on defense amid growing U.S. disengagement.
 
Víctor Razuri, 41, from Peru, poses in a ham drying plant in Guissona, Lleida, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. Inside a cavernous production plant in northeastern Spain, among millions of legs of Spanish ham traveling down hooks and conveyer belts, people from 62 nationalities work side by side to keep a successful food company humming. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)
Foreign workers help Spain’s economic growth outpace the US and the rest of Europe
Foreign workers have helped to make Spain’s economy the envy of the industrialized world, even as anti-immigration sentiments grow elsewhere in Europe and in the United States.
 
A picture damaged during the devastating flash floods last year in Valencia, Spain, is submerged in water as part of a restoration process conducted by students from the Conservation and Restoration program at a field laboratory at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
For flood survivors in Spain, a photo project helps recover memories
In the days after, volunteers from the region and all over Spain came to Valencia’s hard-hit suburbs to help. Among them were students from Valencia’s Polytechnic University who sifted through the wreckage for photos belonging to families who had survived the disaster. As they bicycled around town,
 
Spanish far-right VOX party leader Santiago Abascal, centre, sits with European far-right politicians during Patriots for Europe summit in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. From left, Italy's vice Premier Matteo Salvini, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, far-right VOX party leader Santiago Abascal, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and Dutch far right wing politician Geert Wilders.(AP Photo/Paul White)
Europe’s far-right leaders applaud Trump and downplay threat of possible US tariffs
Europe’s far-right leaders have applauded U.S. President Donald Trump’s agenda and spoke of the turning point it presented Europe at an event organized by Spain’s Vox party under the banner “Make Europe Great Again.”
 
A general view of the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council Session with fellow heads of state at the NATO summit at the IFEMA arena in Madrid, on June 30, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Why meeting Trump’s military spending target could be tough for NATO’s lowest spender
Europe’s military heavyweights have already said that meeting President Donald Trump’s potential challenge to spend up to 5% of their economic output on security would be challenging. For Spain, it would be an especially tall order.
 
A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
AP PHOTOS: In Spanish village, horses leap through flames in centuries-old ritual
It’s a centuries-old tradition in the Spanish village about 100 kilometers (60 miles) northwest of Madrid that takes place every year to honor St. Anthony the Abbott, the patron saint of animals. Riders guide horses through bonfires lit in the middle of the street in an act believed to purify the an
 
A sign advertising an apartment for sale is seen next to housing blocks in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. Sign in Spanish reads ' A renovated apartment with two rooms, two bathrooms and a private patio'. (AP Photo/Paul White)
Why is Spain considering a 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU buyers?
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.
 
King of Spain, Felipe VI speaks during the ceremony for the awarding of the Honoris Causa Doctorate in Social Sciences and Statistics to His Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain, at the San Carlo theater in Naples, Italy, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)
Spain’s monarch pays tribute to the victims of Valencia floods in his Christmas Eve speech
Spanish King Felipe VI has used his traditional Christmas Eve speech to remember the victims of the catastrophic Valencia flash floods.
 
Russian cargo ship sinks in the Mediterranean after engine room blast, leaving 2 crew missing
Spain’s maritime rescue agency and the Russian Foreign Ministry say a Russian cargo ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria. Two crew members are missing.
 
A spectator waits for the start of the annual Christmas lottery draw, known as El Gordo, or The Fat One, at Madrid's Teatro Real, Spain, on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
‘El Gordo’ lottery in Spain spreads Christmas riches worth $2.8 billion
Spaniards have been anticipating the arrival of “El Gordo” or “The Fat One” for weeks. That’s the name of the first prize in Spain’s hugely popular national Christmas lottery. This year’s total draw is worth 2.7 billion euros.
 
FILE - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez grimaces during a press conference after meeting with Slovenia's Prime Minister Robert Golob, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
What to know about the legal cases circling Spain’s prime minister that he calls a ‘smear campaign’
One of Europe’s longest-serving leaders, Sánchez has displayed adroit negotiating skills to stay in power since 2018, when he led Spain’s only successful no-confidence motion against his conservative predecessor. Last year he defied polls to win reelection by stitching together a fragile coalition a
 
FILE - Migrants react as they arrive at the port in La Restinga on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, on, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Maria Ximena, File)
Spain to grant residency, work permits to hundreds of thousands of migrants in the country illegally
Spain will grant residency and work permits to about 300,000 migrants in the country illegally each year for the next three years. Spain’s migration minister spoke about the new policy on Wednesday.
 
Residents remove their belongings from their houses affected by flooding in Benagarmosa, Malaga, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Marrero)
Spanish regional leader admits mistakes made in flood response, but refuses to step down
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.
 
CORRECTS LAST NAME TO ATENE FROM BLACK - Robert Atene, left, with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, supervises as a volunteer crew lifts a power line pole, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, on the Navajo Nation in Halchita, Utah. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
On Navajo Nation, a push to electrify more homes on the vast reservation
Before the coronavirus pandemic, Lorraine Black and Ricky Gillis started filing paperwork to get their rural home in Navajo Nation connected to the electric grid.
 
An apparent tornado caused by Hurricane Milton, tore the awning off a 7-Eleven convenient store, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, in Cape Coral, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Hurricane Milton spawns destructive, deadly tornadoes before making landfall
Multiple powerful tornadoes ripped across Florida hours before Hurricane Milton made landfall on Wednesday night. The ominous, black V-shaped columns of air ripped off roofs, overturned vehicles and brought debris swirling into the air.
 
FILE - A resident is evacuated from her flooded house in Jesenik, Czech Republic, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)
Deadly flooding in Central Europe made twice as likely by climate change
Human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the heavy rainfall that caused floods killing 24 people in Central Europe earlier this month, a new flash study found.
 
Valerie Libbey holds a normal-sized pawpaw, left, next to a drought-affected pawpaw from her farm, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in Washington Court House, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
In Ohio, drought and shifting weather patterns affect North America’s largest native fruit
Stubborn drought in Ohio and shifting weather patterns appear to be affecting North America’s largest native fruit, the pawpaw.
 
A group of day visitors walk past a closed water bottle tap along the Rim Trail, as visitors won't be able to stay overnight in hotels or refill water bottles at Grand Canyon National Park after a series of breaks in the only pipeline that serves the popular tourist destination, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Grand Canyon, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)
The Grand Canyon main water line has broken dozens of times. Why is it getting a major fix only now?
A single pipeline at the Grand Canyon delivers water to millions of visitors annually at the South Rim. Some visitors were surprised recently when they were shut out of hotels over the Labor Day holiday. The move was unprecedented.
 
Pennsylvania delegates react during roll call of the state at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Democrats set their convention roll call to a soundtrack. Here’s how each song fits each state
The traditional roll call at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago became a boisterous dance party, with each state’s delegation announcing their votes for presidential nominee Kamala Harris to a song befitting their state.
 
FILE - The Colorado River in the upper River Basin is seen, May 29, 2021, in Lees Ferry, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will lose same amount of Colorado River water next year as in 2024
Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will continue to live with less water next year from the Colorado River after the U.S. government Thursday announced water cuts preserving the status quo.
 
FILE - The Colorado River in the upper River Basin is seen, May 29, 2021, in Lees Ferry, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
As Colorado River states await water cuts, they struggle to find agreement on longer-term plans
The federal government is expected to announce water cuts soon that would affect some of the 40 million people reliant on the Colorado River.
 
A school of blue-green chromid fish swim above corals on Moore Reef in Gunggandji Sea Country off coast of Queensland in eastern Australia on Nov. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)
Great Barrier Reef waters were hottest in 400 years over the past decade, study finds
Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef reached the highest they’ve been in 400 years over the past decade, research published Wednesday in the journal Nature found.
 
Athletes compete in the swimming race in the Seine River during the women's individual triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, in Paris, France. (Martin Bureau/Pool Photo via AP)
More Olympians are set to compete in the Seine River. Here’s the latest on water quality concerns
At the Paris Olympics, whether the water quality in the Seine River is safe enough to host some swimming events has been a major question. Bacteria levels in the river are constantly in flux.
 
FILE - People sit along the Seine River with stands installed on its banks, July 4, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
Will the Seine be clean enough by the Olympics? Not even the experts know yet
With the Paris Olympics less than two weeks away, a question hangs over the Games: Will the Seine River be clean enough for athletes to swim in it?
 
President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the D.C. Emergency Operations Center, Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden proposes new rule to protect 36 million workers from extreme heat
President Joe Biden has proposed a new rule to address excessive heat in the workplace. The Democrat warns as tens of millions of people in the U.S. are under heat advisories that high temperatures are the country’s leading weather-related killer.
 
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