The brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi faces arrest in the UK after prosecutors asked for him to be extradited from Libya. Hashem Abedi was arrested in the country shortly after the suicide attack that killed 22 people. The Libyan authorities are considering the UK’s formal request, Greater Manchester […]
Some sacked members of Catalonia’s regional government have appeared in Spain’s high court for questioning, accused of rebellion and sedition in the wake of October’s disputed independence referendum. Nine officials turned up, while ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and four others stayed away. Spain’s chief prosecutor has requested the arrest […]
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has been declared winner of a controversial re-run of the presidential election. He won 98% of the vote with turnout at just under 39% – less than half that recorded in August’s vote, according to the election commission. The opposition leader, Raila Odinga, pulled out of […]
Catalan authorities will not follow orders from the Spanish government if Madrid moves to reassert control over the region, a senior official says. A regional government spokesman told the BBC that the central government was acting against the will of Catalans. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has announced plans to […]
The Spanish Foreign Minister, Alfonso Dastis, has denied that his government’s move to reassert control over Catalonia amounts to a “coup”. The speaker of the Catalan parliament, Carme Forcadell, called measures announced by the government on Saturday a “de facto coup d’état”. “If anyone has attempted a coup, it is […]
Global powers, including key US allies, have said they will stand by the Iran nuclear deal which US President Donald Trump has threatened to tear apart. Mr Trump said on Friday that he would stop signing off on the agreement. The UK, France and Germany responded that the pact was […]
A cargo plane has crashed into the sea off Ivory Coast, close to Abidjan airport, killing four people and injuring six. The wreckage of the turboprop plane, which was carrying ten people, was swept toward a beach where rescuers treated surviving crewmen on the sand. All four of the dead […]
Sixty undocumented migrants from Central America were discovered locked inside a food truck by US officials as they tried to cross the border. They were found “laying on and within pallets of broccoli lined with a thin sheet of ice”, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement. […]
Donald Trump is heading to Phoenix, Arizona, for a Tuesday night rally, but the city’s mayor is making it very clear that he does not want the president there. Mayor Greg Stanton (D) did not mince words in a Monday Washington Post op-ed, arguing that Trump’s campaign rally was ill-timed […]
