March 15 (UPI) --Many areas of Spain and the Balearic Islands found themselves covered under a yellowish haze Tuesday from a blanket of desert sand from the Sahara. The dust storm rolled in ...

Spain’s weather service described the dust storm from the Sahara as “extraordinary and ... A red and orange tinged sky is seen over the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain during ...

By Daniel Victor and Raphael Minder Dust from the Sahara drifted north into ... to work despite the dust in the coastal city of Roquetas de Mar, Spain.Credit...Carlos Barba/EPA, via Shutterstock ...

A huge dust storm swirling over Europe from the Sahara desert made it ... was reduced for a large part of Spain. Municipal cleaners swept up the dust from city streets. In Spain’s south, the ...

The Western Sahara independence movement leader was ... resulting in a sudden influx of migrants to the Spanish autonomous city. Spain's High Court earlier on Tuesday turned down a request for ...

Read more country profiles, external - Profiles by BBC Monitoring, external Largest city: Laayoune Area ... is on the air. 1884 - Spain colonises Western Sahara, an area formerly populated ...

Residents of Spain's multi-ethnic city of Ceuta are used to being in the ... the head of the Polisario Front that is fighting to make Western Sahara independent of Morocco, which annexed it ...

Western Sahara is a mineral-rich former Spanish colony that Morocco marched into and occupied when Spain withdrew in 1975 ... controlled territory's main city, Laayoune, is reported to be tense ...

The region stretches along Africa’s Atlantic coast south of the Moroccan resort city ... Spain in the 19th century, and was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Some countries recognize Western Sahara ...

The United Nations has continued to regard Madrid as the colonial administrative power for Western Sahara ... Spain,Rabat allowed 10,000 people to cross the border into Ceuta, a Spanish city ...

Over the next two days, as many as 12,000 people flowed over the border to Ceuta in hopes of reaching mainland Spain, engulfing the city of 80,000 ... region of Western Sahara, which used to ...