The car driven into the crowd in Cambrils by five men who were shot dead by police. Photo: AFP Police on Friday released the names of three Moroccans suspected of deadly terror attacks and who were shot dead overnight by security forces in the seaside resort of Cambrils. Catalonia’s regional police identified them as Moussa […]
Continue reading …The first video of the ramming attack which killed 14 people and injured more than 100 others in Barcelona on Thursday has surfaced online. A CCTV camera inside a museum in Las Ramblas caught the van plowing through the crowded street. READ MORE: Terror timeline: How attacks unfolded in Barcelona & Cambrils The footage was […]
Continue reading …Erdogan and Merkel at the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg, July 2017. Photo: DPA President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on Turks living in Germany not to vote for the two parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling grand coalition or the Greens in next month’s legislative elections, calling them “enemies of Turkey”. Upping the stakes […]
Continue reading …Moussa Oukabir was one of five men killed in Cambrils The key suspect in Thursday’s Barcelona attack, Moussa Oukabir, has been named as one of five men killed by police in the other attack site, Cambrils. Police had earlier said they were searching for Oukabir and three other men, but only one remains unaccounted for. […]
Continue reading …Crowds fill La Rambla following a minute’s silence in respect of the victims of the attack. Photo: Photo: Javier Soriano/AFP Police are looking for a teenager named Moussa Oukabir Soprano as the suspected driver of the van that killed 14 people. Police confirm that a third person has been arrested in connection with the attacks […]
Continue reading …Attack comes after 9 people were decapitated by assailants in the same region in July. Suspected members of Somalia’s al-Shabab armed group beheaded at least three men in an attack on a Kenyan village. “They were slaughtered. Their heads were cut off from the rest of their bodies,” a police source told Reuters news agency, […]
Continue reading …Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy giving a statement following the attack in Barcelona. Photo: Lluis Gene/AFPL Spain’s King, political leaders and media have reacted with defiance in response to the terror attack in Barcelona which killed at least 13 and left around 100 injured. “Unfortunately Spaniards know very well the absurd and irrational pain caused […]
Continue reading …Credit: Josep Lago/AFP Police and medics in a cordoned off area following the incident. Two suspects have been arrested and another killed at a police checkpoint after the attack which killed 13 people.Fiona Govaner targets pedestrians on Las Ramblas in suspected terrorist attack at .20pm on Thursday. Police confirm that 13 people have been killed […]
Continue reading …Germany’s foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel. Photo: DPA US President Donald Trump’s comments blaming “both sides” for deadly weekend violence in Charlottesville were a “huge mistake”, says Germany’s foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel. Protester Heather Heyer was killed and 19 people were injured on Saturday when an alleged white nationalist drove into a crowd of counter-demonstrators at […]
Continue reading …Thomas Olsson. Photo: Magnus Jirlind/Armed Forces Thirty-four Swedish soldiers are heading to east Africa as part of international efforts to prevent attacks from Somali pirates. The soldiers, from Gothenburg, will be stationed off the coast of Somalia as part of Sweden’s fifth mission to the region. Two small Swedish combined transport and war ships will […]
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