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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.
OUGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) — Seventeen people have been killed in a suspected jihadist attack on a restaurant in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, the government said Monday. “The attack claimed 17 victims, their nationalities are yet to be confirmed, and eight injured,” according to a government statement, a copy of which was sent to AFP.
by Ronaldo Schemidt and Daniel Caceres Agence France Presse VALENCIA, Venezuela (AFP) — Venezuela’s military said Sunday it repelled a “terrorist” attack on a base in the city of Valencia, led by an army deserter allegedly linked to “foreign governments.” Two of the attackers were killed and eight were captured, President Nicolas Maduro said on state television, claiming the group of “mercenaries” — whose total number he put at around 20 — had ties to […]
by Emmanuel Duparcq and Ahmad al-Rubaye Agence France Presse MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi forces are facing increasingly difficult fighting and a rising number of suicide attacks, including some by female bombers, in the final stages of the battle for Mosul, commanders said Monday. Following recent suicide bombings by two girls, security forces in the Old City were seen ordering civilians to remove some of their clothing before approaching to guard against the threat. More […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday (June 27) a police helicopter had attacked the Supreme Court in a ratcheting up of Venezuela’s political crisis, but a grenade tossed at the building did not explode. Speaking on state TV, the 54-year-old president, who has faced three months of opposition protests and some dissent from within government ranks, said that special forces were after the “terrorists” behind the attack. The helicopter had also […]
BOGOTA, Columbia (Reuters) – Eight people from a little-known urban guerrilla group have been arrested in connection with a bombing last week at an upscale mall in the Colombian capital Bogota, the police said on Saturday (June 24). Three people were killed and eight wounded when an explosive detonated in a women’s restroom at the Andino shopping center on June 17. Four men and four women, members of The People’s Revolutionary Movement (MRP) rebel group, […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A female Japanese politician has resigned after an audio tape emerged of her violently attacking a male secretary, and reportedly threatening to crush his head with a lead pipe. Mayuko Toyota, a 42-year-old Harvard graduate and up-and-coming member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), can be heard screaming at the unnamed aide, saying he should die as she mocked his thinning hair. Her 55-year-old secretary can be heard repeatedly apologising […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Belgian authorities on Wednesday identified the bomber killed by soldiers in a busy Brussels rail station as a 36-year-old Moroccan national. “The assailant has been identified as O.Z., born 20 January 1981 and of Moroccan nationality,” spokesperson Eric Van Der Sypt said at a press conference after Tuesday’s attack. “He was not known to the authorities for any terrorism connection,” Van Der Sypt said, declining to give the man’s full name […]
by Lachlan Carmichael Agence France-Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) – Belgian security forces have identified the man who set off an explosion at one of Brussels’ busiest train stations before he was shot and killed, in the latest attack to hit Europe, authorities said Wednesday. Interior Minister Jan Jambon said the attack Tuesday evening could have been much worse because the “big explosion did not happen,” adding more details about the device would be released shortly. Witnesses said […]
by Robin Millard Agence France Presse Police on Tuesday questioned a man suspected of deliberately mowing down Muslims in London, as the interior minister said Britain was “bruised but not broken” by a string of terror attacks. Britain was coming to terms with the aftermath of its fourth bloody assault in three months following Monday’s van attack on people leaving the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London. The family of Darren Osborne, the man […]
by Katy Lee Agence France Presse Questions arose Tuesday over how a known radical Islamist who rammed a car into a police van on Paris’s Champs-Elysees was able to hold a gun license. Adam Djaziri, a 31-year-old who had been on a watchlist for radical Islamists since 2015, was killed on Monday as his car loaded with a gas canister smashed into the van on the French capital’s most famous avenue. Two handguns and a […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs said no Filipino was affected in the attack near a mosque in London that killed one and injured ten people. Even then, the DFA said the embassy in London was “monitoring” the situation, noting that it “stands ready to offer assistance” to those affected by the attack near Finsbury Park mosque on June 19. “(The Philippine embassy in London) calls on the Filipino community to reach out […]
