The Spanish Canary Islands have already recorded more irregular sea arrivals in 2026 than in all of 2025, with police reports indicating the archipelago could close the year above 30,000 people.
A sharp late-year acceleration, concentrated on the small island of El Hierro, has overwhelmed local services and drawn sharp criticism from regional leaders and right-leaning parties in Spain.
Two trains have collided in Spain just south of the capital Madrid on Wednesday morning.
Rail operator Adif says the incident occurred between a Renfe train and another of the Iryo company, which covers the Madrid to Seville route.
So far at least 30 people are confirmed to have died in the incident with casualty numbers expected to rise.
🚨🇪🇸 TRAGIC NEW VIDEO:
We’re getting more footage of this morning’s high-speed train crash near Toledo, Spain, that killed at least 46.
It happened on the Madrid-Andalusia line between the Iryo Train with 147 passengers and a baby, and the Renfe train, with 397 passengers.
Less than a year ago, a crash happened on the same line, between the same 2 companies…
46 people died in that one, too. 💔
Writer: Jamie https://t.co/HnTe1DrWyX
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 28, 2026
It’s now nearly nine weeks since tens of thousands of migrants poured across the Moroccan frontier into Ceuta. Most quickly returned to Morocco. But estimates of how many are still in Spain’s tiny North African exclave, which has a population of just 83,000, have varied alarmingly. At one point Madrid said that “only” about 5,000 remained. Government sources now accept that around 20,000 were still in Ceuta after July 30; last week Ángel Víctor Torres, the minister in charge of the crisis, put the current figure at around 18,000.
With Moroccan migrants still causing mayhem in Ceuta, police on mainland Spain are becoming less tolerant of third world behaviours.
📍 Front Marítim hotel, Barcelona. pic.twitter.com/gdqRBzrs84
— John .F. Kennedy Q 🌎 (@JFK_Q_PRD) September 30, 2026
If Fidel Castro was the “Robin Hood of the Caribbean,” Spain’s Pedro Sánchez is now the “Superman of Europe.” It’s been typeset by the New York Times in its headline saying Sánchez “Acts Fast” to head off the migrant crisis in Ceuta after 70,000 African invaders swarmed onto the Spanish territory last July 30, chanting “allahu akhbar.”
Ceuta day 52. pic.twitter.com/81pj0RYj6p
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) September 21, 2026
Foreign-born suspects account for nearly three-quarters of sexual-crime arrests in Basque Country, official figures show
Official statistics released by the Basque regional police, the Ertzaintza, indicate that people born outside Spain made up 58.7 percent of all arrests in the first half of 2026 even though they represent 10.2 percent of the population. The disparity is sharper in several high-profile offense categories.
This is the moment thousands of migrants ran through the streets of the North African enclave of Ceuta as authorities tried to move them to a new tent camp.
Spanish police today began relocating the migrants, who have been living for weeks on the beach in Ceuta, to its port area.
In the move officers struggled to contain the crowds jostling to secure a spot at the new tented site. Authorities say there are enough tents for 1,700 people.
Chaos in Ceuta last night as illegal migrants were being moved from one camp to another.
The Spanish government lied when it said in early August that practically all of the migrants had returned to Morocco.
There are still thousands and thousands left. pic.twitter.com/ZNo0LPPg5v
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 18, 2026
Ceuta, population 83,000, suffered what is being described as its worst night of vandalism last night since some 70,000 migrants poured across the Moroccan border at the end of July. Vehicles and rubbish containers were set alight in several districts, fires were started among belongings in migrant encampments and police intervened in several fights between migrants.
Madrid puts the number remaining in its North African exclave at around 5,000. But current estimates in Ceuta suggest it is almost double.
On Wednesday night, I was among an ocean of people who had descended on Madrid’s ayuntamiento in the Plaza de Cibeles. It was part of huge nationwide protests sparked by the Ceuta fiasco against the government of Pedro Sánchez. Various reports put the crowd somewhere between 50,000 and 150,000 people. In any event, the Plaza de Cibeles was full, people were flooding down Paseo del Prado, and, in the other direction, stretching to the iconic Círculo de Bellas Artes.
The Ceuta crisis has taken on a new dimension with the U.S. president commenting on what is happening in the enclave in a television interview.
Donald Trump has entered the dispute directly with a harsh attack on Madrid while, almost simultaneously, another member of the Moroccan government has once again laid claim to the Spanish city.
President Trump Calls What Happened in Ceuta WORSE Than an Invasion, Warns It Will DESTROY The Country
"When you see something like Spain, In a certain way that is an invasion of a country. It's actually in many worse worse than a military invasion, that country will be… pic.twitter.com/irc86Grm0s
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 3, 2026
The official account of what happened in Ceuta on July 30th has just suffered its most serious blow from within the Spanish state itself.
A confidential report prepared by the National Police’s Centre for Immigration and Borders (CENIF) maintains that the mass entry was not a spontaneous phenomenon caused simply by traffickers, social media, or a temporary failure of Morocco’s border-control apparatus, as the government and media outlets aligned with it have argued for the past month.
When they told you Ceuta was sorted it was a lie
It's hell on Earth
African illegal migrants have destroyed that cityWhen will Europe wake up and realise this insanity must stop pic.twitter.com/08xjLvWj3Q
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) September 2, 2026
The attack targeting a military patrol in the Benzú area of Ceuta last night was a pre-planned ambush rather than a spontaneous clash, according to preliminary findings from the National Police. Now, military sources are speaking of soldiers who are unable to use physical force, have no weapons, and are vulnerable to such attacks in the future.
The Spanish patriots in Ceuta are not joking anymore. See with your own eyes. https://t.co/sn1HvD2edI pic.twitter.com/O1IOHeJd9S
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) August 28, 2026
A leak involving tens of thousands of members of Morocco’s security apparatus has opened a new chapter in the Ceuta crisis.
The hacker group Jabaroot claims to have published personal and professional information on around 70,000 agents and police officers linked mainly to the domestic intelligence service —DGST— and the General Directorate for National Security —DGSN— and has presented the operation as a “gift to Spain” following the mass entry on July 30.
It has been almost three weeks since more than 72,000 migrants invaded Ceuta. Since then, the Spanish government has tried to reassure the world that most of those who entered the territory illegally have now returned to Morocco and order has been restored. But as growing reports of women and girls being sexually assaulted make clear, this is far from the case.
Spain’s National Police began clearing an improvised camp on the beaches of Ceuta on Thursday morning, where more than 4,000 migrants had remained since the mass crossing on July 30th.
Twenty days have passed since that border crisis, and the Spanish autonomous city is still struggling to return to a normality that remains distant.
Moroccan police have blocked a second attempt by migrants to cross the border into Ceuta en masse.
Riot police were deployed at the border on Saturday as hundreds prepared to storm the Spanish territory, two weeks after tens of thousands made the crossing.
Migrants gathered in the border town of Castillejos after calls were made on social media encouraging a second attempt.
