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The Saudis have now destroyed the last building in the heart of a Shia town in the east – the centre of growing unrest which the authorities are blaming on ‘terrorist’ groups. Meanwhile dozens of people have died in the clashes and thousands are being displaced as their homes are razed to the ground.

The Ska Vengers, the Delhi based band who mix ska with dub, punk, jazz and rap. They talk about their music and the politics of modern India, from challenging the mainstream to love for humanity.

Aamer Anwar, the rector of Glasgow University, was on holiday in Las Rambles when the attack happened.

Further updates on the terror attack in Barcelona.

The president has waded back into the debate about America’s confederate past yet again – with a series of tweets declaring the “history and culture of our great country is being ripped apart.”

20-year-old Joshua Wong has been jailed along with two other student leaders for their roles in huge pro-democracy protests almost three years ago. On Twitter Wong said they would never give up fighting for democracy, declaring: “You can lock up our bodies, but not our minds!”

Zimbabwe’s president has flown to Johannesberg after his wife Grace Mugabe was accused of assaulting a young woman in a hotel. Grace Mugabe attempted to leave the country, trying to claim diplomatic immunity.

Susan McLean was on holiday in Barcelona with her husband and was just 100 metres away when the van hit pedestrians.

Police are investigating a terror attack after a van drove at speed into a crowd of pedestrians in one of Barcelona’s busiest tourist areas.

A time when America was riven by racial violence, when civic abuse of the black community boiled over into riots, when the army was deployed to a city where the fires of rebellion burned in the streets. Not today, but Detroit in 1967. Fifty years later the Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow has made a new…

It was the deadliest night in a deadly war on drugs, as Philippine police killed 32 people alleged of involvement in the drugs trade, the highest death toll in a single day of police operations since President Duterte took office. Amnesty International declared the shootings in Bulacan province had plumbed “new depths of barbarity”. A warning:…

Professor Michael Eric Dyson, sociology professor at Georgetown University and author of ‘Tears Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America’, and conservative commentator and journalist, Scottie Nell Hughes, discuss President Trump’s response to the Virginia clashes.  

“They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well guess what, you just magnified her” – the mother of Heather Heyer, the woman killed during the Charlottesville protest against white supremacists speaking at her memorial service today. By contrast, Donald Trump has faced near universal condemnation over his attempt to draw a moral…

George Graham, the director of humanitarian policy for Save the Children UK, discusses what the suspension of migrant rescue missions means.

Aid agencies are warning deaths in the Mediterranean will increase after they suspended migrant rescue missions in response to what they said were threats from the Libyan government.  Save the Children, Médecins Sans Frontiers and the German charity Sea-Eye pulled their ships back after Libya announced it was expanding its zone of control off the…