Spanish police briefly re-established border controls for Gibraltar on Friday, the Gibraltar government said, causing long lines of rush hour workers on both sides of the border as the enclave also began asking to see passports in response.

Spain warned Britain it faces a permanent hard border on Gibraltar on Friday after imposing surprise checks on the Rock’s frontier that resulted in “huge” queues. Madrid has heaped pressure on Britain over Gibraltar since Sir Keir Starmer last week surrendered the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands but the Prime Minister insists the Rock,

Gibraltar's chief minister Fabian Picardo said that he received the notification last night of the changes at the border, which has seen passport checks suspended during Brexit negotiations.

ROME (Reuters) - The leaders of France, Italy and Spain on Friday condemned the recent targeting of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, by the Israel Defence Forces and said such attacks were "unjustifiable" and should "immediately come to an end."

The Israeli military has fired at a peacekeeper observation post in Lebanon, the UN has said - the second such attack in two days. And in Beirut, rescuers are searching for survivors after Israeli strikes killed at least 22.