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Suspected Van Driver In Barcelona Attack Shot Dead By Police

3:00pm August 21, 2017

by Scott Neuman

Catalan police confirmed that the man they shot and killed in the town of Subirats was Younes Abouyaaqoub, the alleged driver of the van that hit and killed pedestrians in Barcelona.

A Russian policeman stands in front of an entrance to the U.S. Embassy in downtown Moscow in 2013.

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U.S. Temporarily Halts Nonimmigrant Visas For Russians

11:07am August 21, 2017

by Scott Neuman

The move is the latest in a tit-for-tat between Washington and Moscow triggered by U.S. sanctions on Russia for its interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

French forensic police officers gesture to pedestrians as they take images while searching a vehicle following a car crash in the southern Mediterranean city of Marseille on Monday.

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Driver Plows Into Bus Shelters In Southern France, Killing 1 Person

9:35am August 21, 2017

by Scott Neuman

Authorities say the driver, who reportedly has a history of mental problems, has been taken into custody. They are not treating the incident as terrorism.

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Spain's Moroccan Community Fears Backlash After Barcelona Attack

8:56am August 21, 2017

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

A manhunt continues for the driver of a van who killed 13 people people in Barcelona. Police say the driver is a 22-year-old Moroccan-born man. Spain's Moroccan community fears a backlash.

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'Rough Translation': What Americans Can Learn From Fake News In Ukraine

7:49am August 21, 2017

by Gregory Warner

Ukraine is where some of Russia's fake news tactics were first developed. We go to Eastern Ukraine to find out how the information war has changed how people watch the news and talk to each other.

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Authorities Investigate Alcanar Site Where Terrorists Hatched Barcelona Plot

6:26pm August 20, 2017

Police are investigating the roots of the plot for one of Spain's deadliest attacks in recent years. The terror cell was using a rented apartment in the small town of Alcanar as a base of operations.

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Spain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia and other dignitaries attend a solemn Mass at Barcelona's Sagrada Familia Basilica on Sunday for the victims of the terror attacks that killed 14 people and wounded over 120 in Barcelona, Spain.

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Mass Held In Barcelona To Honor Victims Of Terror Attacks

9:30am August 20, 2017

by Scott Neuman

The service was held as authorities continue a manhunt for the 22-year-old Moroccan believed to be the driver of a van that plowed into pedestrians on a popular promenade.

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Spain Mourns Attack Victims

7:59am August 20, 2017

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Mourners gathered at Barcelona's most famous church to pray for the victims of the attacks in Spain.

Suat Keceli, left, a retired stockroom worker, and his barber Yasar Ayhan pose in Ayhan's barber shop in Kasimpasa, the Istanbul neighborhood where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan grew up. Keceli is a conservative Muslim who kept his daughter out of schoo

In Turkey, Schools Will Stop Teaching Evolution This Fall

7:00am August 20, 2017

When Turkish children head back to school, something will be missing from their textbooks: any mention of evolution. The government is phasing in what it calls a values-based curriculum.

An undated handout photo sourced from social media shows 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub, who is suspected of being the driver of the vehicle that killed 14 people in the Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona, Spain.

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Spanish Authorities Continue Hunt For Suspects In Barcelona Attacks

7:40pm August 19, 2017

by Scott Neuman

Officials say they have dismantled the jihadi cell responsible for the vehicle attack that killed 14 people but are continuing a manhunt for three suspects still at large.