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Authorities in Spain were forced to evacuate train stations in Barcelona and reported a local media reported.
Two trains in central Barcelona Sants station was evacuated at around 8am on Wednesday, in order to allow an explosive device detected inside a suitcase.
The alarm was sounded by a security scanner in Sants, before Tedax, Spain 's Bomb Disposal Team, Realized the case was tracking the capital.
Shortly after Sants reopened, Madrid's Atocha station – the site of a bombing that killed 193 people 14 years ago – was shutdown on an order by police.
According to Cadena Ser, the bomb scares were triggered by a grenade-shaped belt buckle stored in a suitcase of a woman who was traveling from Barcelona to Madrid.
After tests by a bomb disposal team, Catalan police said the suitcase represented no danger.
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Voters cast their ballots at the Tuttle Park Recreation Center Polling Rental in Columbus, Ohio. Across the United States, voters headed to the polls in one of the most high-profile midterm elections in
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2/50 November 5, 2018
Members of the group Your Vote Matters encourages people to vote before an event hosted by US Senator Claire McCaskill as she campaigns for the US Senate in St. Louis, Missour. McCaskill, Democrat, faces a challenge from Republican Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley in the November general election
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3/50 November 4, 2018
Police Officers and Rescuers at Lanzhou in China's Northwestern Gansu Province. The out-of-control truck crashed into a 31-car lineup and killed 15 people, with 44 injured
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4/50 November 3, 2018
Simone Biles on the podium with her gold medal from the floor at the gymnastics world championships. She became the most decorated female gymnast in world's history, becoming the first American to win a medal in every event at the competition
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5/50 November 2, 2018
A Salvadorean migrant with a girl walks next to Guatemalan policemen as they approach the Guatemala City-Mexico international border bridge in Ciudad Tecun Uman. Guatemala Wednesday, in an attempt to reach the US
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6/50 1 November 2018
Google employees hold signs outside 14th street park after walking out of a global protest over claims of sexual harassment, gender inequality and systemic racism at the tech giant
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7/50 31 October 2018
The "Statue of Unity" portraying Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the founding fathers of India, during its inauguration in Kevadia, in the western state of Gujarat, India
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8/50 October 30, 2018
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9/50 October 29, 2018
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EPA
10/50 October 28, 2018
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11/50 October 27, 2018
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AP
12/50 October 26, 2018
Broward County Sheriff's office has released a photo of Cesar Sayoc, the suspect who was arrested in the pipe of the President of the United States.
AP
13/50 October 25, 2018
East Island in Hawaii has been swallowed by the following sea Hurricane Walaka
US Fish and Wildlife Service
14/50 24 October 2018
President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after a "functional explosive device" was attemptedly delivered to the couple
AP
15/50 October 23, 2018
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16/50 October 22, 2018
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17/50 21st of October 2018
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18/50 20 October 2018
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19/50 19 October 2018
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22/50 16 October 2018
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24/50 October 14, 2018
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25/50 October 13, 2018
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26/50 October 12, 2018
Spanish Unionist demonstrators carry Spanish flags during a demonstration on Spain's National Day in Barcelona
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27/50 11 October 2018
Soyuz MS-10 rocket (pictured). Investigations in the rocket's malfunction are ongoing
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28/50
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29/50 9 October 2018
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31/50 October 7, 2018
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32/50 6 October 2018
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33/50 October 5, 2018
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34/50 4 October 2018
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35/50 3 October 2018
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38/50 September 30, 2018
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40/50 September 28, 2018
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a press conference in Berlin. Erdogan's official state visit with protests
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41/50 September 27, 2018
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42/50 September 26, 2018
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43/50 September 25, 2018
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44/50 September 24, 2018
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45/50 September 23, 2018
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46/50 22 September 2018
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47/50 September 21, 2018
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48/50 September 20, 2018
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49/50 September 19, 2018
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50/50 September 18, 2018
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1/50 November 6, 2018
Voters cast their ballots at the Tuttle Park Recreation Center Polling Rental in Columbus, Ohio. Across the United States, voters headed to the polls in one of the most high-profile midterm elections in
AP
2/50 November 5, 2018
Members of the group Your Vote Matters encourages people to vote before an event hosted by US Senator Claire McCaskill as she campaigns for the US Senate in St. Louis, Missour. McCaskill, Democrat, faces a challenge from Republican Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley in the November general election
EPA
3/50 November 4, 2018
Police Officers and Rescuers at Lanzhou in China's Northwestern Gansu Province. The out-of-control truck crashed into a 31-car lineup and killed 15 people, with 44 injured
AFP / Getty
4/50 November 3, 2018
Simone Biles on the podium with her gold medal from the floor at the gymnastics world championships. She became the most decorated female gymnast in world's history, becoming the first American to win a medal in every event at the competition
AFP / Getty
5/50 November 2, 2018
A Salvadorean migrant with a girl walks next to Guatemalan policemen as they approach the Guatemala City-Mexico international border bridge in Ciudad Tecun Uman. Guatemala Wednesday, in an attempt to reach the US
AFP / Getty
6/50 1 November 2018
Google employees hold signs outside 14th street park after walking out of a global protest over claims of sexual harassment, gender inequality and systemic racism at the tech giant
Reuters
7/50 31 October 2018
The "Statue of Unity" portraying Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the founding fathers of India, during its inauguration in Kevadia, in the western state of Gujarat, India
Reuters
8/50 October 30, 2018
A scavenger collects recyclable materials along the breakwaters from Typhoon Yutu affect Manila Bay. Fierce winds sheared off the roofs and snapped trees in half, they were evacuated ahead of the powerful storms
AFP / Getty
9/50 October 29, 2018
Rescue team members collecting the remains of the plane crash at Tanjung Priok Harbor, Indonesia. A Lion Air flight JT-610 lost contact with air traffic controllers soon after takeoff then crashed into the sea. The flight was en route to Pangkal Pinang, and reportedly had 189 people onboard
EPA
10/50 October 28, 2018
A supporter of Workers' Party presidential candidate Fernando Haddad embraces a fellow weeping supporter, after learning that rival Jair Bolsonaro was declared the winner in the Brazil presidential runoff election. Addressing supporters in Sao Paulo, Haddad did not concede or even mention Bolsonaro by name. Instead, his speech has been promised to resist
AP
11/50 October 27, 2018
First responders surround the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where a shooter opened fire, wounding three police officers and killing eleven
AP
12/50 October 26, 2018
Broward County Sheriff's office has released a photo of Cesar Sayoc, the suspect who was arrested in the pipe of the President of the United States.
AP
13/50 October 25, 2018
East Island in Hawaii has been swallowed by the following sea Hurricane Walaka
US Fish and Wildlife Service
14/50 24 October 2018
President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after a "functional explosive device" was attemptedly delivered to the couple
AP
15/50 October 23, 2018
Turkey's President Erdogan today accused Saudi Arabia of plotting the 'savage' murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
AP
16/50 October 22, 2018
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison (C) delivers a national apology to child sex abuse in the House of Representatives in Parliament House in Canberra on October 22, 2018. – Morrison on October 22 issued an emotive apology to children who suffered sexual abuse, saying the state had failed to protect them from "evil dark" crimes committed over decades
AFP / Getty
17/50 21st of October 2018
A derailed train in Yian, eastern Taiwan. At least 17 people died after the derailment
CNA / AFP / Getty
18/50 20 October 2018
US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One after a "Make America Great" rally in Mesa, Arizona on October 19, 2018. – US President Donald Trump said Friday, October 19, 2018, that he found credible Saudi Arabia's assertion that dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi died as a result of a fight
AFP / Getty
19/50 19 October 2018
A Palestinian youth runs a roller coaster driving a taxi with Israeli soldiers following a weekly newspaper on Friday West Bank city of Hebron
AFP / Getty
20/50 18 October 2018
Honduran migrants heading to a caravan to the United States, leave Guatemala City. US President Donald Trump Threatened by the United States of America in the United States of America
AFP / Getty
21/50 October 17, 2018
Smoke billows following an Israeli air strike around the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Israel launched raids against targets in Gaza Strip the Israeli army said
AFP / Getty
22/50 16 October 2018
Ecuador has issued a list of rules to Julian Assange, the famous resident of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The list included cleaning the bathroom, not commenting on foreign policy and taking care of his cat (pictured). The document states that it is not possible to comply with the rules of the Ecuadorian state
Reuters
23/50 October 15, 2018
Israeli soldiers shouted tear gas grenades during clashes following Israeli orders to shut down the al-Lubban / al-Sawiyeh school near the west bank of Nablus, 15 October 2018. According to local sources, 20 Palestinians were wounded during clashes as dozens try to defiance the Israeli order to shut down the school
EPA
24/50 October 14, 2018
Serbia's Novak Djokovic kisses the trophy after winning his men's final singles match against Croatia's Borna Coric at the Shanghai Masters. Djokovic, who's going to be one of those titles, will move up to one spot spot to No. 2, pushing Roger Federer back to No. 3
AFP / Getty
25/50 October 13, 2018
Demonstrators raising red painted hands and a closet reading "We must change the system not the climate" Referring to the need to stop climate change during a Bordeaux, Southwestern France
AFP / Getty
26/50 October 12, 2018
Spanish Unionist demonstrators carry Spanish flags during a demonstration on Spain's National Day in Barcelona
Reuters
27/50 11 October 2018
Soyuz MS-10 rocket (pictured). Investigations in the rocket's malfunction are ongoing
Reuters
28/50
Hurricane Michael Passed Through Panama City, Florida. A Category 4 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph, was the most powerful storm of the Florida Panhandle
Getty
29/50 9 October 2018
The Darul Muttaqien Mosque was the heart of the community for many in Palu. A lot of the victims were inside their homes or at the mosque when the quake struck. Magareb Prayer for many, was their last. Paddy Dowling travels with UK based charity Muslim Aid to the disaster areas of North Sulawesi to witness the scale of Indonesia's earthquake & tsunami. They are the only British NGO providing assistance in Palu through local partners
Paddy Dowling
30/50 October 8, 2018
People take part in a candle-light vigil in Bulgarian TV journalist Viktoria Marinova in Ruse
Reuters
31/50 October 7, 2018
Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, presidential candidate with the Social Liberal Party, celebrating the general election in Rio. The far-right congressman, who waxes nostalgically about the dictatorship, won the vote but not an outright victory. The second-round-run-off will be between Bolsoanro and the leftist Workers' party Fernando Haddad
AP
32/50 6 October 2018
Demonstrators hold a banner that reads "freedom of the press, not allowed to be trampled" and "shame on the governments vindictive move" past a symbolic "political red line" during a protest after Hong Kong immigration authorities declined a visa renewal for senior Financial Times reporter Victor Mallet, outside the immigration department building in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's decision to effectively blacklist a senior Financial Times journalist required an "urgent explanation," the UK said
AFP / Getty
33/50 October 5, 2018
Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad announced the winners of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. The peer was awarded the honor "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."
AFP / Getty / Reuters
34/50 4 October 2018
Dutch security services expel Russian spies over plot targeting chemical weapons watchdog. This picture shows the oven GRU officers who entered the Netherlands at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on April 10, traveling on official Russian passports. On April 13 they were parked outside the headquarters of the OPCW in The Hague. At this point the Dutch counter-terrorism officers are operating in the country
PA
35/50 3 October 2018
Quake survivors make their way past a passenger ferry in Wani, Indonesia's Central Sulawesi, after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area on September 28. Nearly 1,400 people are now known to have died both desperate survivors and rescue teams
AFP / Getty
36/50 2 October 2018
US first lady Melania Trump holds a baby during a visit to Accra, Ghana. The first lady is visiting Africa on her first big international trip, aiming to make the child well-being the focus of a five-day, four-country tour
Reuters
37/50 1 October 2018
Indian school children dressed like Mahatma Gandhi perform yoga during a school chennai event in front of his birth anniversary. Indians all over the country celebrate Gandhi's birthday on October 2
AFP / Getty
38/50 September 30, 2018
An Albanian man casts his vote at a polling station in the village of Zajas on September 30, 2018, for a referendum to re-name the country. – Macedonians cast ballots on September 30 to be able to re-name their country North Macedonia, a bid to settle a long-running row with Greece and unlock a path to NATO and EU membership
AFP / Getty
39/50 September 29, 2018
Residents trying to salvage belongings from their homes which collapsed after an earthquake and tsunami hit Palu on Sulawesi island on September 29, 2018. – Nearly 400 people were killed when a powerful tsunami hit the Sulawesi Indonesian island, officials said September 29th, as hospitals struggled to cope with hundreds of injured and rescued scrambled to reach the stricken region.
AFP / Getty
40/50 September 28, 2018
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a press conference in Berlin. Erdogan's official state visit with protests
EPA
41/50 September 27, 2018
Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters
AP
42/50 September 26, 2018
Members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) search for victims after a building collapse in New Delhi
AFP / Getty
43/50 September 25, 2018
US golfer Tiger Woods tees off during a practice session ahead of the 42nd Ryder Cup at The Golf National Course at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, south-west of Paris
AFP / Getty
44/50 September 24, 2018
President Donald Trump and US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, talks with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres during the General Assembly at UN Headquarters
AP
45/50 September 23, 2018
Iranian President Hasan Rouhani has claimed that his country is "ready to confront America", following an attack on a military parade in Ahvaz in which 25 people were killed. The attack has been blamed by Iranian government and military officials on gulf states that are allied with the US
AP
46/50 22 September 2018
Pakistan has invited Saudi Arabia to become a partner in the Beijing funded Belt and Road scheme that will improve and expand Pakistan's infrastructure. The invitation comes to the end of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's two day trip to the Middle Eastern country, where he puts with Saudi King Salman
EPA
47/50 September 21, 2018
A boat has capsized killing at 136 people in Lake Victoria, Tanzania. Rescue operations are ongoing
AFP / Getty
48/50 September 20, 2018
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe celebrates after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership election at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on September 20, 2018. – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won re-election as leader of his ruling party on September 20, 2011 Japan's longest-serving first and realizes his dream of reforming the constitution.
AFP / Getty
49/50 September 19, 2018
Los Angeles has moved to the city of the city. Speaking at a news conference today, Bob Blumenfield said, "this is something that is not just a good legislative win, it's a moral win". San Francisco, Berkley and others will be the largest city in the world.
AP
50/50 September 18, 2018
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong A wave during a parade in Pyongyang, North Korea,
Reuters
Atocha, however, was evacuated around 10am, with commuters saying they were forced to "run out into the street", before they confirmed the false alarm and reopened the station less than an hour later.
The station was the site of Spain's deadliest militant attack in March 2004. More than 2,000 people were injured on top of the 193 killed. Police say it was carried out by Islamist activists inspired by al-Qaeda.
