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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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump © Carlos Barria / Reuters US allies Germany, France, Japan, and South Korea are among countries which trust Vladimir Putin more than Donald Trump in handling foreign affairs, a new Pew poll shows. “In many countries he [Putin] is more trusted than American President Donald Trump,” according […]

US Vice President Mike Pence has asked Chile, Peru, Mexico and Brazil to break diplomatic and other ties with North Korea, as part of a campaign to pressure Pyongyang into giving up missiles and nuclear weapons. “It’s imperative that the regime in Pyongyang understand that all options are on the table,”Pence said  on Wednesday in […]

First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday reportedly evaded arrest in dramatic style in South Africa following her violent attack on a model who she had found partying at an upmarket hotel with her two sons, Robert Jr and Chatunga Bellarmine, NewsDay has learnt. The First Lady was expected to appear at […]