Police remain in attendance at Manchester Arndale Centre following reports of a man with a knife. Officers attended and a man has been arrested and taken into custody for questioning. There are no reported injuries. There is not believed to be any wider threat to the community
1 year agoPolice detain a photojournalist from 'El País' for an alleged assault that several witnesses deny
1 year agoThe Mossos are using the water cannon on the streets of Barcelona to make it through the barricades
1 year agoThe Mossos use the water cannon to open the way to Via Laietana and Plaça Urquinaona
To win Rudy Giuliani's help with a legal fight, associates of a Ukrainian oligarch Firtash pursued dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden last summer
1 year agoThey take an injured @policia from the first line of ma Jonqueres street. There has been a shower of stones against them
1 year agoInterior ministry of Spain says 207 officers injured in the riots these days in Catalonia
1 year agoThe @mossos scatter Urquinaona entering with the vans while @policia continues shooting balls
1 year agoA National Police officer, injured in Urquinaona square. Violence continues to increase.
Republican John Kasich believes that the behavior by President Trump withholding aid to Ukraine "rises to the level of impeachment" and was inappropriate
1 year agoOver half a million protesters at Barcelona demonstration, local police say
1 year agoRiots on Via Layetana in central Barcelona. At least 10 riot vans. Multiple police charges
1 year agoAlgiers: the 35th Friday demonstration in photos (Photos: DR)
1 year agoChairs of foreign affairs committees of UK, France, Germany, EU & US parliaments condemn Turkey offensive in Syria "as a military aggression & a violation of international law". They say "abandonment" of Kurds is wrong & "deeply regret" US exit + warn of terror threat
1 year agoPolice charges in Via Laietana
[email protected] says captured ISIS fighters are "double secured by Kurds & Turkey..". Trump also tweets that Europe an countries "are willing, for the first time, to take the ISIS Fighters that came from their nations"
[email protected]: ..I have just been notified that some European Nations are willing, for the first time, to take the ISIS Fighters that came from their nations. This is good news, but should have been done after WE captured them. Anyway, big progress being made
French President: Europe can no longer be a small partner in the Middle East
EU Council president @donaldtusk on the deal negotiated by @VP & Turkey: "this so called ceasefire, it's not what we expected. In fact it's not a ceasefire, it's a demand for capitulation of the Kurds."
Emmanuel Macron said the U.K. should not get another extension to the Brexit process if Boris Johnson loses a vote on the withdrawal deal on Saturday
1 year agoItaly PM Conte had a call with Turkey President Erdogan. Conte again strongly condemned the invasion of NE Syria against SDF and told Erdogan he must halt the operation and withdraw his troops. The conversation was reportedly "very tense"
1 year agoKharkiv court has arrested suspected in espionage on behalf of China. Suspect attempted to hand over restricted information on "aerosol methods of countering UAVs", developed by Ukrainian enterprise
1 year agoDemonstration in the streets of Girona, during the general strike that culminates in a week of mobilizations in Catalonia in protest of the condemnation of sentence of separatists leaders #VagaGeneral18O. EFE / David Borrat
EU sees 'no alternative' to retaliation after record US tariffs: official
A group of Dutch IS women and their children are suing the Dutch State. If the state doesn't pick them up from the prison camps in northern Syria, then they "will hold the government liable for their suffering"
U.S. prosecutors are seeking records from a company associated with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska as part of a previously unreported investigation spun off from the Mueller inquiry
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokeswoman says a cabinet meeting will be held in Downing Street at 4pm
Finland tried to bring up the issue of Albania & North Macedonia again at today's Euco but didn't get very far. seems like this debate has been exhausted for
1 year agoSecurity Service of Ukraine exposed channel of smuggling of goods for the needs of Russian military aviation from temporarily occupied territories in Luhansk region
Ryanair FR2371 has landed at Dublin following a medical emergency and is currently being met by emergency vehicles
Puigdemont is released without bail after declaring in Brussels: "I will always condemn all violence"
Barcelona versus Real Madrid, Spain's biggest football match, postponed because of Catalan pro-separatist protests
"British American Tobacco" company has suspended production in Ukraine, cause of amendment to law proposed by MP Dubinsky. Company paid $650M in taxes last year. Other tobacco companies also threatens to exit Ukrainian market if draft law adopted
President Andrzej Duda will convene the first meetings of the Sejm and Senate on November 12 - spokesman of the head of state Błażej Spychalski said on Friday
1 year ago[email protected] in Fontajau, Girona, right now, with tractors from the Garrotxa, too.
1 year agoThousands of people in the demonstration convened before the Generalitat in Girona and the adjacent streets
Catalonia separatist leader in exile Carles Puidgemont surrendered to Belgian authorities
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has told Sky News the new Brexit agreement reached between the UK and the EU is a "cracking deal for Northern Irish business"
SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has told Sky News that the party will vote against the Brexit deal tomorrow because it is "bad for Scotland"
Joint Forces Operation Press Center: yesterday Russian forces opened fire 29 times.
1 year agoBarricades on Balmes at Aragò Barcelona
A hijack attack inspired by "September 11" foiled in France, according to French Minister
1 year agoFirst fires in Rambla Catalunya. The neighbors throw water from the balconies to try to put out the fire
1 year agoBarcelona: A container burns at Balmes and Mallorca intersection. The first on the fourth night of protests
1 year agoBarcelona protesters attacking the press: balls and cans against a live journalist
1 year agoThousands of people follow Jardinets de Gracia and surroundings in a festive atmosphere in Barcelona. The reapers are singing and screaming 'Visca Catalunya lliure'
Serbia to acquire Russian SAM Pantsyr-S1
Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, said the U.S. froze aid partly to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democrats. He undercut President Trump's denials of a quid pro quo
Dodik accuses Serb ministers of betrayal over adoption of Action Plan for EU
1 year agoRight now in the Plaza de Artós (Barcelona) a group of Spanish nationalists are trying to boycott the Catalonian nationalists protests
1 year agoFootage Within Grom2019 strategic command & control exercise, a Yars system unit have performed an intercontinental ballistic missile launch at the Plesetsk cosmodrome hitting a land target at Kura test site in Kamchatka
Brexit EU27 EUCO finished. Conclusions adopted
Venezuela obtains seat on UN Human Rights Council
Russia's Lavrov, Iran's Zarif, after phone talk, say Moscow and Tehran are ready to facilitate talks between Kurds and Syrian government - statement
The Duke of Cambridge says he and the Duchess of Cambridge are fine after the plane they were on aborted landing twice in Islamabad in Pakistan
1 year agoRussia launched submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) Sineva as part of "Strategic C&C drill Thunder 2019"
Putin is pulling Russia out of a key element of the Geneva Conventions that authorizes investigations into alleged war crimes against civilians. Putin issued a decree dated Wednesday to withdraw from Protocol 1 of the 1949 convention
The president of the European Parliament calls for a suspension of Turkey's EU membership talks
Gunvor will pay $95 million to end a Swiss investigation after the company admitted a former employee bribed officials in the Republic of Congo to secure oil contracts
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has landed in Erbil, and he is expected to hold meetings with senior Kurdish officials.
1 year agoSondland's prepared testimony to House committees: "I did not understand, until much later, that Mr. Giuliani's agenda might have also included an effort to prompt the Ukrainians to investigate Vice President Biden or his son or to involve Ukrainians."
Gordon Sondland plans to break sharply from Trump today, telling House investigators that he opposed Trump's request to run Ukraine policy through Giuliani (despite recent reporting that he privately met with Ukrainians in the WH to discuss Burisma)
Zaharova: It didn't work - Kosovo is not a state
1 year agoRussia launched several ballistic missiles of different ranges and cruise missiles as part of strategic "Grom-2019"(Thunder-2019) drill
1 year agoRussian Su-25SM3 held counter air-defense drill at Kuban
Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar says the new Brexit deal is good for both Ireland and Northern Ireland and allows the UK to leave the EU in an orderly way
The US, France and the United Kingdom already alert their citizens of the risks of traveling to Catalonia
1 year agoNational Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine detained ex-deputy secretary of Ukraine NSDC Hladkovsky near Boryspil airport
1 year agoIraqi president @BarhamSalih receives French foreign minister in Baghdad
British Transport Police says eight people have been arrested after Extinction Rebellion activists disrupted London Underground and Docklands Light Railway services at Stratford, Canning Town and Shadwell in east London
Johnson will tell EU leaders that it's this deal or no deal - but no delays. He will not ask for a extension and will not accept one if offered
Kremlin: The integration of the Russian Federation and Belarus is a long-drawn out process, the timing of which is too early to speak
Labour, DUP, SNP and Brexit Parties reject new PM's deal with the EU
1 year agoBarnier says Northern Ireland will remain aligned to EU rules on goods, which means checks will take place in the Irish Sea, not at the Irish land border
12 detained in Thessaloniki at Turkish consulate protest
1 year agoThere are already thousands of students who move through the streets of downtown Barcelona. "The streets will always be ours"
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says Prime Minister Boris Johnson has negotiated an even worse deal than his predecessor did and the best way to get Brexit sorted is to give the people the final say in a public vote
1 year agoNorthern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, which rejected the BrexitDeal earlier on Thursday, says its position is unchanged
1 year agoIn the Black Sea, Matka-class Missile boat U153 Pryluky together with US missile destroyer Porter and Romanian Corvette Horia Macellario held a PASSEX training
1 year agoThe pound has surged after EU and U.K. leaders reached a Brexit deal
Johnson: The British parliament is expected to ratify the Brexit agreement next Saturday
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK and EU have reached a "great new" deal on Brexit "that takes back control"
President Iohannis has nominated the leader of PNL, Ludovic Orban, as PM. Orban has the difficult task of building a parliamentary majority
1 year agoJuncker: Where there is a will, there is a deal - we have one. It's a fair and balanced agreement for the EU and the UK and it is testament to our commitment to find solutions. I recommend that EUCO endorses this deal
Confirmed: Brexit deal done in Brussels. EU leaders will consider later today
Opposition Democratic Party in Moldova submits to Parliament an initiative on a vote of no confidence in the government, presented by former Speaker of the Parliament Andrian Candu
Former Labour MP Dame Louise Ellman tells Sky News "Labour can't be an anti-racist party if it turns a blind eye to racism towards Jewish people" after she announced she was leaving the party because she "can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM"
Netherlands - 23 people arrested in clashes between Turkish and Kurdish communities in Rotterdam
Johnson, Juncker speak to unblock Brexit deal: Commission
News agency Reuters reports a senior EU official says there will be no Brexit negotiations with Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the two-day EU summit which begins later today and that the bloc has not received the text of an agreement
1 year agoRally near court building in Kyiv where Privatbank nationalization case hearing continues today
Iraqi Foreign Minister: We discussed with the French side the reconstruction of liberated areas
The European Commission's chief spokeswoman Mina Andreeva says the Commission's president Jean-Claude Juncker has spoken to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and told him that "every hour and minute counts" as Brexit talks continue
"We're on a better path, but haven't reached an agreement yet," said Chancellor Angela Merkel before heading to Brussels for a EU summit on Brexit
German Chancellor Angela Merkel: "Turkey should immediately end operations in Syria."
1 year agoMeanwhile Extinction Rebellion tried to block Jubilee Line trains in Canning Town and this is the commuters' reaction.
1 year agoSecretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan met with "Foreign Minister" of Nagorno-Karabakh Masis Mayilyan
British Transport Police says arrests have been made following three separate incidents involving Extinction Rebellion activists at Stratford, Canning Town and Shadwell stations in east London
Joint Forces Operation Press Center: yesterday Russian forces opened fire 30 times. 1 soldier was killed, another wounded
1 year agoDUP statement: no
[email protected]: Hope all House Republicans, and honest House Democrats, will vote to CENSURE Rep. Adam Schiff tomorrow for his brazen and unlawful act of fabricating (making up) a totally phony conversation with the Ukraine President and U.S. President, me. Most have never seen such a thing
Kurt Volker told lawmakers in a closed-door testimony that Bill Taylor was worried Trump might be willing to trade away Ukraine's interests as part of a grand bargain with Russia
1 year agoMossos helicopter being attacked by pyrotechnic material launched by violent undepedentists in Barcelona.
