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Monday, January 19, 2026, 14 :15 Around 8pm, Sunday, high-speed trains were suspended between Madrid and Cordoba as well as Seville, Malaga, and Huelva after a fatal accident occurred near Adamuz Station (Cordoba). The Spanish railway infrastructure Adif announced that all high-speed trains on this route would be cancelled for Monday. However, the severity of the accident suggests that there …

Monday, January 19, 2026, 13 :08 Updated 13:54h. | Updated 13:54h. Carlota was 10 years old and had to take a language test on Monday. She took her textbook along with her, promising her father she would study while she was away. Fidel, her father, said that because she had missed Friday’s class he asked her to use the trip …

INVESTIGATORS are focusing on the heart-stoppingly short interval between which a train heading north from Malaga to Madrid derailed – and smashed into another train heading south to Huelva. These twenty seconds are the most important figure in the analysis of the deadly accident near Adamuz (Cordoba), which resulted in at least 39 deaths and scores of injuries. Renfe, Spain’s …

Images posted by passengers of the train that derailed on Sunday night in Adamuz, Cordoba Province, show the magnitude of the incident. They include passengers in shock and trying to find their belongings in the affected carriages. Ambulances are transporting injured passengers. Montse Ruiz was one of the passengers in carriage 4 of the Alvia train traveling from Madrid to …

SPAIN’S Transport Minister Oscar Puente has urged the public not to speculate about the cause of Sunday’s high-speed train crash near Adamuz in Cordoba province while investigators are working to establish what went wrong. Puente called the derailment ‘tremendously strange’, stressing that the incident happened on a straight section of line and on infrastructure that had been completely renewed in …

In the past, many people will remember the days when recycling in Spain, UK, and other countries was achieved by rewarding those who returned their empty soft drink bottles to the same shop where they had purchased them. The Mayor of Estepona also seems to remember those days. Estepona Council has made a bold move to promote responsible waste management. …

In Andalusia, the protests against squatting are increasing as more cases occur. Credit – Maria Mercedes Catalonia was almost always the topic of conversation when it came to squatting. That has now changed – and quite decisively. Andalusian authorities confirmed that in January 2026, the region had overtaken Catalonia to become the part of Spain where the most squattings cases …

Monday, January 19, 2026, 10 :35 Updated 10:53h. | Updated 10:53h. A complicated and worrying night following the serious accident that occurred on the AVE Madrid to Malaga line. According to the story of Salvador Jiménez, who was travelling on the train, the passengers had just been served dinner when the collision occurred. In statements to media, he said: “The …

PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez has cancelled his schedule to go to the train crash site in Cordoba where at least 39 people died. He will be briefed first-hand about the situation following Sunday’s derailment of two high-speed trains at Adamuz. His scrapped plans had included a meeting with the Partido Popular leader, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo. Hoy es una noche de …

Sunday, 18th January 2026 at 21:56Updated at 23.14h. | Updated 23:14h. At least 10 people were killed when a high-speed train traveling between Malaga, Spain and Madrid derailed in Adamuz station in Cordoba Province on Sunday night. In one of the worst high-speed train accidents in Spain, at least 25 people were seriously injured. Around 7.45pm, the accident occurred when …