Police Barcelona deals with attack with a knife as terror
barcelona August 20, 2018 20:00The Spanish police are dealing with an attack on a Catalan police station as terrorism. A man attacked a cop with a big knife. The police shot him dead.
The Spanish police are dealing with an attack on a Catalan police station as terrorism. A man attacked a cop with a big knife. The police shot him dead.
Terrorists have attacked police officers in several places in the Russian Federal Republic of Chechnya. Four archers have been shot dead according to the authoritarian leader of the regional republic, Ramzan Kadirov. Five agents were injured. According to Kadirov, it was a failed attempt to disrupt the Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice).
The man who drove a car on Tuesday with the British parliament on cyclists and pedestrians was sued on Saturday for attempted murder twice. He has to appear in court on Monday.
A Turkish judge dismissed in appeal the release of the American reverend Andrew Brunson. That is what the broadcaster Haberturk announced on Friday.
The Ramblas in Barcelona are again full of roses, lights, notes, photos and hugs. Friday commemorates the city that a year ago the white bus of terrorist Younes Abouyaaqoub from Ripoll zigzagged over the pedestrian boulevard, causing thirteen fatalities and dozens of wounded. In total, sixteen people died in the attacks of Barcelona and Cambrils. The wounds are still far from healed.
Because of a suicide attack on a training center in Kabul, at least 48 people were killed and 67 people were injured on Wednesday. The Ministry of Health has announced this.
A Turkish judge ordered the release of the chairman of Amnesty International (AI) in Turkey, Taner Kilic. Kilic has been in detention in the West-Turkish city of Izmir for more than a year.
The British authorities have overtaken the identity of the man who rode in on pedestrians and cyclists at parliament on Tuesday. According to sources around the government it is about the 29-year-old Salih Khater, report the BBC. He is a British citizen who originally comes from Sudan.
A Turkish court refused to withdraw the house arrest of the American preacher Andrew Brunson. The request is now submitted to a higher court, the Hürriyet newspaper reports.
The man who on Tuesday morning near the British parliament in a car at high speed on cyclists and came to a halt to a safety barrier, is a 29-year-old Briton. The authorities regard the incident as a terrorist act.
The BBC has put camera images of the attack on the British Parliament building online. The police treat the incident as a terrorist act. Several witnesses have now stated that everything resembles an intentional act.
The driver who boarded passers-by at Westminster on Tuesday is suspected of terrorism. That is what the London police know. It is about 'a man in the back of the twenties'.
American national security adviser John Bolton met with the Turkish ambassador in the US on Monday about the American preacher Andrew Brunson. The White House said that this consultation took place at the request of Turkish ambassador Serdar Kilic.
In the conflict with the United States, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatens the NATO partner with a break. If the Americans remain so disrespectful, then his government will 'seek new friends and allies.' Erdogan gave that warning in a sent contribution in the New York Times.
Egyptian security officials have foiled a bomb attack on a church just outside of Cairo. The state television has announced this on Saturday. A suicide bomber was on his way to the prayer house in Qalyubiyah with a vest full of explosives. When he was stopped at about 250 meters in front of the entrance, he blew himself up. There were no other victims.
Turkish President Erdogan has repeated his appeal to the population on Saturday to sell dollars and euros to support the lira. The national currency has fallen into free fall because of concerns about the economy and the deteriorating relationship with the United States.
The party of the Iraqi clergyman Moqtada al-Sadr was declared the winner of the May parliamentary elections on Friday. The results were long overdue because all votes had to be counted again.
A Turkish government delegation will travel to the United States within two days to try to solve the problems between the two countries. CNN Türk reports this on the basis of diplomatic sources. According to CNN Türk, the United States and Turkey have already agreed conditions for the meeting on certain points.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has frozen assets from the US Ministers of Justice and Security in Turkey. With this measure Erdogan reacts to the sanctions that Washington imposed last week on the Turkish ministers Abdulhamit Gül (Justice) and Süleyman Soylu (Home Affairs).
In the south of the Philippines, at least ten people died on Tuesday because a bomb exploded in a van. According to the Philippine authorities, the attack is probably the work of militants affiliated to the terrorist organization Islamic State.
Islamic State (IS) has carried out one of its bloodiest terror actions in the south of Syria last Wednesday. The terrorist group committed four suicide attacks in the southern city of As-Suwaydi and in neighboring villages, including a market. The head of the regional health service reported 215 deaths and more than 100 injured.
Almost seventeen years later, another victim of the attacks of 9/11 in 2001 in the US has been identified. Scott Michael became the 1642th victim of the terrorist acts that was identified.
A former bodyguard of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, who was wrongly deported to Tunisia by Germany, must be back in Germany by Tuesday. That is what a court in Gelsenkirchen determined, according to German media. If that does not work, a fine of € 10,000 for the city of Bochum that is involved in the case threatens.
The German police have Tuesday the 42-year-old woman of the Cologne \u0026 # x27; poison terrorist \u0026 # x27; Sief Allah H. arrested. She is suspected of having assisted her husband in the preparation of a terrorist attack with ricin. The Tunisian-born H. was arrested last month after a large amount of the deadly poison was found in his home. He has been charged with making a biological weapon.
The British government no longer resists the idea of delivering two British members of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization to the United States to have them tried there.
It remains unclear what motivated the man who put himself around a bus in the German city of Lübeck and injured ten people. The suspect remains silent about his motives, says a spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service. It is a 34-year-old German of Iranian origin. Previously, the police said that a terrorist act was excluded on the basis of current knowledge.
It is not yet known what the motive is of the man who opened fire on Sunday evening (local time) in a busy nightlife street in the Canadian city of Toronto. A spokesman for the police said it was 'too early to say that it is a terrorist attack.'
The return of Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum in Afghanistan did not happen without incident on Sunday. At the entrance to the airport in Kabul where he arrived, a terrorist blew himself up between supporters of the politician. Ten people were killed, according to local authorities.
A British court Friday imposed 28-year-old Khalid Ali life imprisonment.
The Belgian police have fired an inspector who himself would have made a threatening letter from terrorist group IS. The man would have posted the document two weeks after the attacks in Paris at the gate of the police station.