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Death toll from Spain attacks rises to 16

 A 51-year old woman left in critical condition after the twin vehicle attack in Spain last week passed away Sunday, bringing the death toll from the incident to 16, local authorities in Barcelona said. "This morning a 51-year-old German woman died after being treated in a critical...

EU citizens leaving UK pushes down net migration

Net migration to Britain in the year to March 2017 fell by 81,000 to 246,000 people, with more than half the drop due to an increase in the number of EU citizens leaving Britain and fewer arriving, official data showed on Thursday. Net migration of European Union citizens fell by 51,000 to...

Spain attacks: Police find belt with real explosives

Police in northeastern Spain said Wednesday they found a belt charged with real explosives in a house where a fatal explosion last week derailed the initial plans by an extremist cell to strike with bombs in Barcelona rather than vehicle attacks that eventually killed 14 people. A 15th victim...

Spain attack fugitive 'dangerous', possibly 'armed'

A 22-year-old man on the run after allegedly ploughing a van through crowds in Barcelona, killing at least 13, is "dangerous and could be armed," police in Catalonia said Monday. Police tweeted four pictures of Moroccan national Younes Abouyaaqoub wearing a striped top and with short, dark...

UN voices concern over refugee evictions in Rome

The U.N.'s refugee agency (UNHCR) on Sunday voiced "grave concern" over the eviction of 800 people from a Rome building squatted mainly by asylum seekers and refugees from Eritrea and Ethiopia. The agency said 200 of those expelled from the building on Saturday had had to sleep on the...