Spain will now play host to a series of United Nations climate talks in December.
It comes after original hosts Chile pulled out following anti-government protests in the country.
However the last minute change in venue is proving to be a logistical challenge.
Spanish visas and accommodation also have to be issued for the 25,000 people who are expected to attend the event.
It's also left 16-year-old environment activist Greta Thunberg stuck on the wrong continent.
Russia, Ukraine exchange attacks on capitals as US envoys land in Moscow
Russia and Ukraine exchanged attacks on each other's capitals early on Thursday, a day after peace talks ended and shortly before US envoys arrived in Moscow to meet President Vladimir Putin.
Building collapse in Brooklyn kills at least 2, injures more than 10
A three-story building next to a construction site collapsed in Brooklyn on Wednesday, killing at least two people and sending more than 10 others to hospital, New York City officials said, as rescuers searched the rubble for possible additional victims.
Israeli strike on southern Gaza hospital kills six
An Israeli airstrike on a building at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, killed at least six people, including a surgeon, and wounded 20 others early on Thursday, a spokesman for Gaza's civil defence service told Reuters.
Saudi Arabia says debris from intercepted Houthi missiles falls in Mecca region
Saudi Arabia's civil defence said debris from two ballistic missiles intercepted by its air defences fell in the Mecca region on Wednesday.
Climate crisis is 'outrunning us', UN chief warns COP31
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders at the COP31 summit in Turkey on Wednesday that the slow international response to climate change so far had placed the world on a path to destruction.
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