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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed on Thursday a decree to create a task force that will look into reports about the possible transfer of Ukrainian missile technologies to North Korea.

The Turkish authorities call on Berlin to extradite one of the alleged organizers of the July 2016 failed coup attempt who had reportedly been spotted in Germany, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Thursday.

A delegation from Germany arrived in Russia's Crimea on Thursday to take part in the events commemorating the 76th anniversary of the deportation of Crimean Germans, the chairman of the Crimean German Cultural Autonomy, Yury Gempel, told Sputnik.

UK Minister for Europe Alan Duncan called on other states on Thursday to show understanding toward Turkey's "traumatic" experience of the July 2016 coup attempt.

A total of 35 Greenpeace activists have approached Norwegian Statoil's oil rig in the Barents sea on dinghies holding hand banners to protest oil extraction in the Arctic area, the environmentalist organization has said in a statement, denouncing Norway's ambiguous environment policy.

Poland is not facing the prospect of terror acts because of Warsaw’s tough policy with regard to migrants, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said Thursday following a deadly van attack in Barcelona, Spain.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has declared a three-day period of national mourning for those killed in Barcelona on Thursday, in what he has described as a "jihadist" attack.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday expressed support to those fighting against racism and xenophobia in the US city of Charlottesville, Virginia, where a deadly nationalists' rally took place.

The UN refugee agency has warned that Madrid lacks resources to deal with the growing number of migrants entering the country by sea, a spokeswoman for the UNHCR in Spain said.

A man who was shot dead by police after driving a car into a police checkpoint in Spain’s Barcelona was not connected to Thursday’s van attack in the inner city that killed 13 people, the Catalan police chief told reporters.

A minute of silence will be held on Friday at noon in Barcelona to pay tribute to the victims of the terror attack in the Spanish city, local media reported Thursday.

The Catalan police chief has said they have detained two men on suspicion of involvement in Thursday’s van attack in Barcelona.

Marine Le Pen, the leader of French right-wing National Front (FN) party and former presidential nominee, extended her condolences to the relatives of the victims of the ramming attack in Barcelona and urged to reestablish national borders of the European countries.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Thursday’s terrorist attack in Barcelona and expressed solidarity with the people of Spain and sincere sympathy to the families of the victims, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said in a statement.

Catalan police have confirmed that the driver of the van that killed 13 people in Barcelona Thursday afternoon is still at large. Police say the driver of the van escaped on foot and appeared to be unarmed.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has condemned the so-called Erna Raid, a set of military competitions named after the activities of the Erna sabotage group against the Red Army in 1941, held in Estonia earlier this month, the ministry's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said Thursday.

The United States is ready to provide all necessary help to Spanish authorities to locate and punish those who organized and carried out a terror attack in Barcelona, Vice President Mike Pence said in a speech at the Cocoli Locks in Panama on Thursday.

The lights of the Eiffel Tower will be turned off starting on Thursday as a gesture of solidarity with Spain, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Thursday.

Unaccompanied migrant children in the United Kingdom are being deprived of legal support against the backdrop of legal aid cuts coupled with the growing administration fees these youngsters have to pay the Home Office for support, The Children's Society charity said in a press release on Thursday.