Catalan independence referendum: riot police move in on polling stations - live
Millions of people in Catalonia are expected to vote in a referendum on independence in defiance of the Spanish government
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias has also been reacting to the intervention by Spanish police.
He writes: “Bumps, shoves, old women dragged. What the PP is doing to our democracy is repugnant to me. Corrupt, hypocritical, useless. Is this your “victory” Mariano Rajoy?”
Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has voted in Cornellà de Terri, a village in Girona province. Catalan politician Jordi Sánchez posted a picture of the moment.
Not every polling station has been raided.
There is a big crowd at Concepció primary school in Barcelona just around the corner from Balmes school which police have already raided but no sign of police so far here.
Spanish police have clashed with voters as thousands of people flocked to the polls to vote in the Catalonia independence referendum.
The country's national police began to seize ballot boxes and voting papers from Catalan polling stations on Sunday morning.
Riot police smashed their way into a polling station where the Catalan president Carles Puigdemon was expected to vote in the disputed referendum.
Puerto Ricans fire back at Trump for critical tweets
Updated 0648 GMT (1448 HKT) October 1, 2017
Puerto Ricans reacted harshly on Saturday to President Trump's tweets that leaders of the hurricane-ravaged Caribbean island "want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort."
Several Puerto Ricans contacted by CNN stood up for San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who apparently provoked the Trump tweet with a call for more aid, and many said the Puerto Rican community at home and abroad is already working together.
"I'm amazed that he has the gall to say Puerto Ricans expect everything to be done for them," said Griselmarie Alemar of Stratford, Connecticut. "They are working exhaustively to lift themselves up. We are citizens. We pay taxes. We serve in the military."
Egypt 'to conduct anal examinations on men accused of waving rainbow flag at Cairo pop concert'
Show by band Mashrou’ Laila prompted homophobic crackdown
Egypt is likely to conduct torturous and disproven anal examinations on six men accused of waving rainbow flags at a pop concert, charities have warned.
The men are charged with “debauchery” and “promoting sexual deviancy”, amid a crackdown on homosexuality, supported by the country’s religious and media establishment.
They were arrested by security forces following a concert in Cairo by Lebanese band Mashrou’ Laila, where several of the gay pride flags were waved by audience members.
The band’s lead singer, Hamed Sinno, is openly gay and some of the band’s lyrics talk about sexuality. Wives of IS FightersA German Love Story Goes Awry in the 'Caliphate'
A student from Germany followed her husband to Syria to join Islamic State. Now the 29 year old is stuck in an Iraqi army camp for prisoners of war with her three children as she awaits her fate: either a return to Germany or draconian punishment.
By Katrin Kuntz (Text) and Marcel Mettelsiefen (Photos)
On Aug. 25, 2017, a blistering hot summer day in Iraq, Elif K., a 29-year-old Islamic State supporter from Germany, sent her last WhatsApp message from the "caliphate" to her family in Germany. The buildings around her were in flames, the roar of the attacking helicopters drowned out her words. Every explosion elicited a scream from her children. Elif was watching the world in which she had spent her last four years being destroyed. "Our life," she thought to herself, "is coming to an end."
Elif is a shy woman with hazelnut-brown eyes who loves cooking and watching quiz shows. Since exchanging small-town life in Germany for Islamic State, she found adventure and established a family. She learned what it felt like to be on the receiving end of airstrikes, taking shelter under her bed hundreds of times -- praying, crying and wondering what death might feel like.
Views mixed over Abe's election gamble amid N Korea threat
By Tomoyuki Tachikawa
Analysts offer mixed views on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's abrupt dissolution of the House of Representatives for a general election amid the growing threat from North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Some criticize Abe for exploiting the crisis by calling the Oct 22 election. He has claimed that the country needs the experience of his almost five-year-old Liberal Democratic Party-led government to deal with the situation.
But others say that Abe has merely made a strategic decision, basing the timing on likely developments in diplomacy as the international community attempts to dissuade North Korea from continuing its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
North Korea vows to become a 'state nuclear force'
Pyongyang calls sanctions and pressure 'futile' in halting its development of nuclear weapons.
North Korea's state news agency has called the US-led effort to impose sanctions over its weapons programme futile, vowing the country inevitably will become a "state nuclear force".
The comments on Sunday came from the Korean Central News Agency's website Uriminzokkiri after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met for talks with China's top diplomats and President Xi Jinping in Beijing over the Korean nuclear crisis.
Tillerson has been a proponent of a campaign of "peaceful pressure", using US and UN sanctions and working with China to turn the screw on the regime.
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