"For us Basques, ETA's terrorism is in the past," says social worker Elena Garcia, who says she's going to vote for the left-wing separatist EH Bildu in Sunday's election in Spain's Basque Country. A faction which partly emerged from the political wing of the now-defunct Basque armed separatist group ETA, Bildu "used to be associated with a nationalist party with a terrorist past but it’s moved away from that," said Garcia.
The heavy debt weighing on developing countries can be alleviated through readily available measures, the UN's trade and development chief said, pleading for bold international action.There have been numerous efforts over the decades to resolve debt problems weighing on poor countries, but Grynspan said they have been so slow and complicated that they often act as a "deterrent".
Rescuers were removing mountains of rubble on Thursday from the site of a lethal Russian missile strike on Ukraine's historic city of Chernigiv, where at least 18 people were killed in an attack that has prompted fresh pleas for allies to boost Kyiv's overstretched air defence systems.The official death toll rose to 18 as of Thursday morning, with 77 people -- including four children -- injured, according to Ukraine's emergency services department.