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Barcelona terror attacks: what we know

Josep Lago | AFP | Getty Images Armed policemen stand in a cordoned off area after a van ploughed into the crowd, injuring several persons on the Rambla in Barcelona on August 17, 2017. A manhunt is underway in Spain as police search for the driver of a van that …

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Google offers additional $4.75m funding to Lunar XPRIZE finalists

Chris Rutter | Digital Camera Magazine | Getty Images Night time photograph of a waxing gibbous Moon, taken on November 14, 2013. Google Lunar XPRIZE, the space exploration competition sponsored by Google, is offering additional prize money to finalists who can complete two in-space missions as it extends program’s deadline …

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Britain’s Brexit minister says UK should not have to pay for temporary customs deal with EU

Dursun Aydemir | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, David Davis and Chief negotiator for the European Union, Michel Barnier (not seen) hold a joint press conference during the second round of the Brexit negotiations in Brussels, Belgium on July 20, 2017. The …

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Top UK ministers say Brexit transition cannot be back door to staying in EU

Stefan Wermuth | Reuters Dawn breaks behind the Houses of Parliament and the statue of Winston Churchill in Westminster, London, Britain June 24, 2016. May’s Brexit strategy has been the subject of open debate among her top team ever since a botched June election which weakened her authority and exposed …

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French police seek vehicle after soldiers hit and injured in Paris

Yves Herman | Reuters French military patrol near the Eiffel Tower the day after a series of deadly attacks in Paris , November 14, 2015. French soldiers were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, Paris police authorities said on Wednesday, adding that a …

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German state premier on defensive over close ties with VW

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Volkswagen logo is displayed at Serramonte Volkswagen on November 18, 2016 in Colma, California. The controversy about Weil’s speech erupted amid renewed questions about close ties between German politicians and German car makers, and whether they prevented the German government from acting sooner to …

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Rouhani, embarking on second term in Iran, asks Europe not to side with Trump

Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Residential and commercial properties sit illuminated on the city skyline in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. Security in the capital has been increased to the highest level, the police said, two months after gunmen linked to the Islamic State group attacked …

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Aldi stops selling eggs in Germany over food safety scare

Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Customers shop at an Aldi Stores location in Hackensack, New Jersey. The Netherlands is the world’s second-largest agricultural exporter after the United States and sells around 5 billion eggs a year to Germany. The detergent was also supplied to farms in the northern …

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Asian leaders see Trump as a ‘very weak’ President, says analyst

Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) walk together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, April 7, 2017. “He may speak big but can’t deliver in the end and doesn’t quite know where he wants to go,” …

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Bank of England hike talk simmers down with concerns that inflation has peaked

Yuri Gripas | Reuters Bank of England Governor Mark Carney leaves after speaking at 2017 Institute of International Finance (IIF) policy summit in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2017. Summer data appear to have given doves a boost ahead of Thursday’s Bank of England (BOE) rate decision, with just 2.5 percent …

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