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As Barcelona, Spain reeled from an attack on Thursday that left 13 people dead and dozens more injured, President Donald Trump quickly took to Twitter to both denounce the attack and recount a “vile” myth that claims a U.S.

A van hit pedestrians today in Barcelona’s central Las Ramblas area – a district popular among tourists. The Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalonian police force, confirmed that 3 people are confirmed dead and 17 injured.
Local authorities are labeling the incident as terrorism.
Reports are that 2 armed men have entered a nearby restaurant. Emergency authorities are warning people to avoid the area and stay indoors.

A video has been released by the Spanish police to show the van that killed 3 people:

A Ukrainian agent was dramatically arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in the southern Russian city of Sudak. He was caught trying to damage local power-lines, something Ukrainian terrorists had previously done in northern Crimea.
Gennadiy Limeshko issued a guilty plea and explained his dangerous actions in the following way,

“I received 5,000 [$195] hryvnia for the task. On August 12, after an attempt to place a charge, I was detained by the Russian FSB officers”.

Sputnik reports,

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — Though rising tensions between the Trump administration and North Korea had dominated headlines for much of the past week, the chaotic events in Charlottesville swiftly replaced concerns about imminent nuclear war with concerns about the white nationalist movement and other associated groups.

Originally appeared at RussiaFed.com
ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) – Border guard ships from Russia, Estonia and Finland on Tuesday held a joint sea rescue training in Russian territorial waters on the Gulf of Finland, the press-service of Russia’s Federal Security Service’s (FSB) border directorate in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region said on Wednesday.

Law enforcement officials investigate an explosion at the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minn., on Aug. 5, 2017. (David Joles/Star Tribune)
MINNEAPOLIS  — The Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in suburban Minneapolis, like other U.S. mosques, occasionally receives threatening calls and emails. Its leaders say they’re more frightened now after an explosive shattered windows and damaged a room as worshippers prepared for morning prayers.

A photo montage of the 19 9/11 hijackers, 15 of which were Saudi citizens.
Saudi Arabia asked a US judge on Tuesday to dismiss 25 lawsuits alleging that it helped plan the 11 September terror attacks.
Fifteen of the 19 Al-Qaeda hijackers who carried out the 9/11 attacks were Saudi, but Riyadh denies any ties to the plotters who killed nearly 3,000 people.

Abdulmajid al-Zindani, designated as a terrorist by the US, with prominent Saudi cleric Muhammad al-Arifi (left) and other scholars, picture shared in 2015 (screengrab)
SANAA – What at first perhaps looked like any regular hospital bedside visit between two old friends catching up was anything but.
In footage aired on an anonymous YouTube channel early in 2016, an elderly Yemeni cleric visited his Saudi peer, Aaidh al-Qarni, in a hospital in Riyadh, and brought good news from the battlefront next door.

Two mortars fell inside the territory of the Russian Embassy in Damascus while two others reportedly landed just outside.
Russia has called on the United Nations Security Council, including western nations to condemn the terrorist attack.
This is not the first time that jihdists have attacked the Russian Embassy in Damascus in reprisals for Russia’s assistance to Syria in fighting Salafist terrorism in the country.
No one is thought to be injured.
DETAILS AS THEY EMERGE

According to sources on the ground in Syria who have spoken with Sputnik , members of the formerly US backed jihadist terrorist group Mahavir as-Saura who are allied with the larger terrorist umbrella group FSA, have laid down their arms and surrendered to Syrian authorities.
According to the source,