Bloomberg At least 500 Spanish police officers were driven out of their hotels by angry locals last night as Catalan separatists pushed back against state forces after the crackdown on their illegal vote for independence. “This is a mafia behavior,” Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said in a televised statement on Tuesday. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is fighting …

Bloomberg Extremists who repeatedly watch terrorist content online could be jailed for as long as 15 years, UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd said on Tuesday, announcing an update of counter-terrorism laws. The move will expand the existing offense of possessing information likely to be useful to a terrorist so it does not only apply to downloaded or stored information. UK …

Bloomberg The Palestinian Authority cabinet met in the Gaza Strip for the first time in three years as its members began to take charge of ministries from Hamas, and said they would start talks next week on the contentious issue of security forces. The government is “ready to take complete responsibility and extend its full control over Gaza, without exceptions,” …