Day: August 20, 2017

The police of Catalonia (province of Spain) confirmed that it continues to work on a version of the 12 suspects of involvement in the terrorist attack which occurred on Thursday in Barcelona. One of them is still wanted, reports Reuters on Sunday, August 20. Yesterday it was reported that the guards looking for the main suspect in the pedestrians on the Ramblas. He was a 22 years old Moroccan, Younes Abuaku (Younès Abouyaaqoub), writes Noticia al dia. According to Spanish media, that he was driving a car that crashed into a crowd of passers-by. On the evening of 17 August, the minibus ran into people in the street of Las Ramblas in Barcelona. Later on Avinguda Diagonal is unknown on a truck attacked the police officers guarding the area of the attack. Injured two guards. That same night in Cambrils, South of Barcelona, another group of terrorists attempted to commit

Close to Queen Elizabeth II, sources said that the monarch has no plans to abdicate and hand over power to crown Prince Charles. On Sunday, August 20, writes The Sunday Times. According to sources, while the Queen is healthy and able to perform their duties, all the talk about the Regency have no soil. They also recalled that in a speech timed to coincide with its 21st anniversary, the then Princess Elizabeth II swore her whole life is devoted to serving the people. 13 August, a source in the Royal family told the newspaper The Mirror that the Queen Elizabeth II intends to abdicate in favor of his eldest son, Prince Charles. According to the publication, preparation of documents for the transfer of the throne has already begun. Elizabeth II was declared Queen in 1952. In September 2015, having been on the throne 23 of 226 days, she became the

The Australian government introduced the national “Strategy for the protection of places of mass gatherings from terrorism”, reports TASS Sunday, August 20. “We have identified the criteria by which the municipal authorities, the administration of various institutions, businesses and retail outlets will be able to assess the vulnerability of their targets for such terrorist attacks,” — said the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. One of the most important tasks Turnbull called fencing pedestrian areas with concrete tables. According to the Agency, the work on this anti-terrorist strategy began after the terrorist attack in nice, where the driver of the truck hit people on the waterfront. The same, by way of committing, acts of terrorism occurred then in several other cities. “It is impossible to achieve 100 percent guarantee of protection, but much can be done to improve the security level of each object”, — said the Prime Minister of Australia and

Sebastian Kurz The head of the Austrian foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has stated that it will not tolerate Turkey’s interference in the internal Affairs of their country. He stated this in an interview with German newspaper Welt, quotes of which leads TASS. “The constant interference of the [Turkish President] Erdogan in the internal Affairs of other States, and this is happening not only in Germany, I definitely reject,” said Kurtz. In his opinion, the head of Turkey “is trying to use citizens of Turkish origin, especially in Germany and Austria, polarizes and shifts the conflict from Turkey to the EU.” “In the event that if Erdogan or his Ministers intend to do this kind of thing during the upcoming elections to the national Council [lower house of the Austrian Parliament], I now would like to say that we in any case will not tolerate such interference,” — said the Minister.