Spanish police early on Friday said they killed the alleged perpetrators of a suspected “terrorist attack” in the town of Cambrils, south of Barcelona. Six civilians and one police officer were hurt when a car drove into people in the Spanish seaside resort of Cambrils early on Friday. Source: Al Jazeera
The unrest in southern Iraq is sending nervous jitters in Kuwait, as bloody protests in neighbouring Basra province continue to spread over poor government services and corruption and inch closer to the border. Source: The New Arab
A senior Iranian oil official urged U.S. President Donald Trump not to use the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to push prices lower, and instead drop sanctions on Iran’s crude exports. Source: Bloomberg
Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said during a visit to Moscow on Monday that he wanted to see EU sanctions against Russia dropped “by the end of the year”. Source: The Local
