Barcelona attack: Spanish police shoot dead five suspects to stop second attack after 13 killed in Las Ramblas
Police arrest a third suspect as detectives point to a series of linked incidents
Spanish police say they have shot dead five suspected terrorists attempting to carry out a second attack in a seaside resort an hour away from Barcelona, where at least 13 people were killed and more than 100 injured by a van ploughing into crowds on Barcelona’s historic Las Ramblas.
Detectives say they believe the Barcelona attack and the later incident in Cambrils are linked. Six members of the public and a police officer were injured in the attack when the suspects ran them over in a car, before police shot them dead and carried out controlled explosions. Detectives are connecting the attacks to a house explosion down the coast on Wednesday, where people are thought to have been preparing bombs.
Police continue working to piece together the events that led to the Barcelona tragedy, with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy saying it was a "jihadist attack". A manhunt goes on for those involved after the driver fled the scene on foot.
Bonded by spilt blood, South Sudanese refugees in Uganda reach million mark
Jason Burke reports from the Imvepi camp, where strangers are forging family units to replace those splintered by war
This, then, is a family. There is 23-year-old Gloria Keoji, the only adult, and six children. The oldest is 17, the youngest three months. There are five girls and a boy. The ties that bind them are made more of blood spilt than blood shared but, they insist, they are a family nonetheless.
All have their tales of violence, told fast and quietly while looking at the red soil between naked and calloused feet, or staring into the vast blue sky above the bush. These memories are too fresh to confront face on.
Fighting between militia factions and government forces in South Sudan, the world’s youngest state, over the past year has created the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world.
Pediatricians say Florida hurt sick kids to help big GOP donors
Updated 0811 GMT (1611 HKT) August 18, 2017
When he was 11 years old, LJ Stroud of St. Augustine, Florida, had a tooth emerge in a place where no tooth belongs: the roof of his mouth.
LJ was born with severe cleft lip and palate, which explained the strange eruption, as well as the constant ear infections that no antibiotic could remedy.
With her son in terrible pain, Meredith Stroud arranged for surgeries to fix his problems.
But just days before the procedures were to take place, the surgeons' office called to cancel them.
Like nearly half of all children in Florida, LJ is on Medicaid, which has several types of insurance plans. The state had switched LJ to a new plan, and his surgeons didn't take it.
THE NORTH KOREA STANDOFF, LIKE THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, EXPOSES THE RECKLESS U.S. WORLDVIEW
Jon Schwarz
THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN the U.S. and North Korea has cooled off slightly with Kim Jong-un’s announcement that, at least for the time being, he will not attack Guam with an “enveloping fire.”
So since we have a small breather before Armageddon, let’s take the time to understand what this conflict is all about.
A good place to start is with the repeated comparisons U.S. politicians have made between the situation with North Korea and the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.
For instance, Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, recently said, “This is analogous to the Cuban missile crisis.”
'Upskirting': It happened to me
When a man took an upskirt photograph of Gina Martin at a music festival last month, she went straight to the police. But she was amazed to discover that there is no specific law against "upskirting" in most of the UK - only in Scotland. After the police closed her case, Gina began a petition to get it reopened, and now she is lobbying for a change in the law.
Martin's article about her experience struck a chord with many of you. We asked readers to tell us if they had been the victim of upskirting, and whether the perpetrator was punished. Here are some of your stories - names have been changed.
"I was at the bus stop"
It happened four years ago, when I was 17. It was a warm spring day and I was wearing a floral dress. I was waiting for the bus to go to college at 09:00 in the morning on a busy main road.
Facing elections in Venezuela’s new normal, opposition asks: Do we want in?
MODELS OF THOUGHT As Venezuelan politicians prepare for long-delayed gubernatorial elections, some opposition members have argued that their participation would validate the increasingly undemocratic government. But memories of a backfiring boycott in 2005 have hung over the decision.
MEXICO CITY—Since April, Venezuela’s opposition coalition seemed to be gaining the kind of support and momentum it was long criticized for lacking. Its calls for peaceful protests and boycotts were met by a broad, consistent turnout, and an unofficial referendum it organized in July led more than 7 million Venezuelans at home and abroad to condemn the increasingly authoritarian moves of President Nicolás Maduro’s government.
The coalition was making powerful promises, like plans to set up a parallel government if President Maduro moved forward with a July 30th vote to create a Constituent Assembly.
“We are not backing down because our problem isn’t the Constituent Assembly, it’s the dictatorship,” said Freddy Guevara, a top opposition politician in the National Assembly, in the lead-up to the vote. “What comes after…will not be easy for us.”
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