SPAIN
Separatists rally in Barcelona
Hundreds of thousands of separatist-minded Catalans rallied in Barcelona on Sunday to show their support for breaking away from Spain, leaving the country without its powerful and prosperous northeastern region. Barcelona police estimated on their Twitter account that about 540,000 people attended the rally in support of a legally-binding referendum that would achieve an independent Catalonia. Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said that he plans to propose a government-approved binding independence referendum to secede from Spain by next year. Spain, which opposes secession, argues that an independent Catalonia would be ejected from the European Union and unable to use the euro currency.
Kenya
Police kill female attackers
Three women have been killed after they attacked a police station in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa on Sunday, a police official said. One of the women threw a firebomb at officers while another pulled out a knife, Mombasa Police Chief Parterson Maelo said, adding two policemen were wounded. The women, who were dressed in niqabs, were then shot by police. One of the women had a suicide vest that didn’t detonate, another police official said.
ENGLAND
Weapons seized at temple
Police arrested 55 people and seized bladed weapons after dozens of men occupied a Sikh temple in central England on Sunday. A Sikh youth group said it was protesting the temple’s use for interfaith weddings. The Warwickshire police force said officers were called early Sunday morning to the Gurdwara Sahib Leamington and Warwick temple in Leamington Spa, 100 miles northwest of London. Police said they made 55 arrests on suspicion of aggravated trespass; no one was injured. Police said the incident wasn’t related to terrorism, but was “an escalation of an ongoing local dispute.”
Compiled from wire reports.