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Barcelona, Aug 18: Spanish police hunted Friday for the driver who ploughed a van into crowds of pedestrians on a busy avenue in Barcelona, just hours before a second such assault hit a nearby resort, in twin attacks that left 14 dead and over 100 injured. Police said they killed five "suspected terrorists" during the night and three others were arrested as Spain reeled from the double tragedy in

Barcelona, Aug 18: At least 13 people were killed today when a driver deliberately slammed a van into crowds on Barcelona's most popular street in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Police said they had arrested two suspects after the assault, the latest in a wave of vehicle rampages across Europe in recent years. The IS propaganda agency Amaq claimed that "soldiers" from the jihadist

New York, Aug 16: Melbourne is the most liveable city in the world, followed by Austrian capital, Vienna and Canada's Vancouver in the second and third place respectively, reveals a survey. According to the Global Liveability Report compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), no Indian city was ranked in the top ten or bottom ten in the most liveable city ranking. Others in the 10 most

Freetown, Aug 16: Sierra Leone entered a week-long mourning period for the victims of flooding that killed more than 300 people, with fears rising for at least 600 missing people. Three days of torrential rain triggered mudslides on Monday in the Regent area of the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, and massive flooding elsewhere in the city, one of the world's wettest urban areas. The exact death

Washington, Aug 16: Senator Bernie Sanders, while commenting on the Donald Trump’s latest remarks on Charlottesville clashes, has said that the United States President is embarrassing the country and the millions of Americans who fought and gave up their lives to defeat Nazism. Sanders in a tweet said, “@realDonaldTrump, you are embarrassing our country and the millions of Americans who fought and

Dubai, Aug 15: Iran could abandon its nuclear agreement with world powers “within hours” if the United States imposes any more new sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday. “If America wants to go back to the experience (of imposing sanctions), Iran would certainly return in a short time – not a week or a month but within hours – to conditions more advanced than before the start

Ouagadougou, Aug 14: An attack by gunmen on a Turkish restaurant that began late on Sunday left at least 17 people dead and eight wounded in the capital of Burkina Faso, a West African country that has seen a surge in violence by armed groups over the past few years. The figure was released early on Monday by Burkina Faso's communications minister Remi Dandjinou. There was no immediate claim of

Bedminster, Aug 13: For President Donald Trump, this was the week when the real world began to intrude upon his presidency. The violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, between white nationalists and counter-protesters confronted Trump with perhaps the first true domestic crisis of his young administration. And to some, even within his own Republican Party, he came up short. It followed days

Cairo, Aug 12: At least 44 people were killed and nearly 180 others injured after two trains collided near Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria, officials said. The Egyptian cabinet said in a statement that the number of deaths may increase and the final toll will be announced after clearing the debris of the two trains. The deadly collision took place on Friday after a train travelling to

United Nations, Aug 10: Up to 50 refugees and migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia were "deliberately drowned" when a smuggler forced them into the sea off Yemen's coast, the UN migration agency said on Wednesday, calling the drownings "shocking and inhumane". International Organization for Migration (IOM) staffers found the shallow graves of 29 of the refugees and migrants on a beach in Yemen's