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by Daniel Bosque with Marianne Barriaux in Madrid A van driver ploughed into crowds of pedestrians on Barcelona’s most popular street in broad daylight on Thursday, killing 13 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. Police announced the arrest of two suspects, identified as a Spaniard and a Moroccan, but said the driver was still on the run. Witnesses told of scenes of chaos and horror, with bodies strewn along the […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) – A driver deliberately rammed a van into pedestrians on one of Barcelona’s most popular boulevards on Thursday, killing 13 people in what Spanish police called a “terrorist attack.” What happened? Around 5 pm (1500 GMT), a vehicle slammed into a crowd of pedestrians on the famous Las Ramblas boulevard. The promenade in the heart of the city center is one of the city’s busiest streets, normally thronged with tourists and street performers […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday offered its assistance to Spain in the wake of a deadly van attack in Barcelona’s most popular street Las Ramblas, which left at least two dead. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also said that consular assistance was being provided to Americans in the city, and urged US nationals to check in with their families. “Terrorists around the world should know — the United States and […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — At least one person died and 32 others were injured when a driver ploughed a van into pedestrians on one of Barcelona’s busiest streets in what police called a “terrorist attack.” Speaking to reporters, regional interior minister Joaquim Forn said the toll could rise. Earlier, an emergency services source told AFP two people had died, and regional Catalan police have said 10 of the 32 injured are in serious condition.
by Daniel Bosque BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — A driver deliberately rammed a van into a crowd on Barcelona’s most popular street on Thursday, killing at least two people before fleeing to a nearby bar, police said. Officers in Spain’s second-largest city said the ramming on Las Ramblas was a “terrorist attack” and a police source said one suspect had left the scene and was “holed up in a bar.” A local security source told AFP […]
TRIESTE, Italy (AFP) — Seven European Union and six Western Balkan nations hold an annual summit Wednesday in Trieste, with leaders hoping to bolster security in one of the continent’s more vulnerable flanks and forge closer ties. The summit will be preceded this year by a meeting of French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, with the continued flow of migrants into the EU expected to be high on the agenda. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) – The European Union on Sunday hailed the defeat of the Islamic State group in Mosul as a “decisive step” in fighting terrorism but called on Iraqis to work together to improve their country. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi earlier announced that pro-government forces had retaken the second city from IS after a months-long battle that killed thousands of civilians and forced nearly a million people from their homes. “The recovery […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) – The European Union’s commissioner for migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, said the bloc was willing to help ease the pressure for Italy, who has appealed to the EU for help in taking in African migrants. Italy has even raised the possibility of closing its ports to humanitarian rescue ships to pressure EU partners, sources familiar with the matter said. Italy has brought in over half a million boat migrants since 2014, and a […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — At least 2,000 people were evacuated from Paris’ main airport on Saturday and eight flights cancelled after an individual went into a “restricted area” without going through security controls, airport sources said. “We had to evacuate to ‘decontaminate’ the zone, meaning check to make sure no object had been left,” said one of the sources. The evacuations were from a zone in terminal 2F at the Charles de Gaulle airport that passengers access […]
by Gregory Danel / Romain Fonsegrives Agence France Presse CRETEIL, France — A man drove his vehicle into barriers protecting a mosque in the Paris suburbs Thursday, forcing worshippers to dodge out of the way, police and officials said. Muslim community leaders described the incident, which injured no one, as an “attempted attack” and an “Islamophobic act.” It came nearly two weeks after a man rammed a van into worshippers outside a mosque in London, […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief negotiator Mauro Petriccione met his Japanese counterpart Yoichi Suzuki for talks in Tokyo on Tuesday (June 27), as the two economies seek to forge a free-trade agreement. On Monday (June 26), EU trade chief Cecilia Malmstrom said the regional bloc was is in a “very intense phase” in its negotiations with Japan and could sign a provisional deal as early as next week. Petriccione has been in […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that France refuses to recognize Russia’s “annexation” of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea but that he hoped to make progress toward peace. Macron said after meeting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Paris that his approach to future talks was unambiguous: “France is committed to Ukraine’s sovereignty with its recognised borders,” he said. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 after a military intervention in eastern Ukraine. The new […]
