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India, EU agree to tackle online extremism

India, EU agree to tackle online extremism

-- 2017-10-06 06:25:32

The European Union and India have agreed to step up cooperation in countering violent extremism and radicalization, particularly online, and in enhancing maritime security in the Indian Ocean and beyo...

16 dead in Russia train-bus collision

16 dead in Russia train-bus collision

-- 2017-10-06 05:02:41

At least 16 people were killed when a train hit a bus on a crossing in the Russian region of Vladimir, 100km (62 miles) east of Moscow. The bus engine may have stalled after the driver ignored a red...

Spain court interrogates Catalan police officers

Spain court interrogates Catalan police officers

-- 2017-10-06 04:53:53

Spain’s national court interrogated two senior officers of Catalonia’s regional police force on Friday. The court also quizzed leaders of two pro-independence civic groups who were placed...

Las Vegas shooting: NRA urges new rules for gun 'bump-stocks'

Las Vegas shooting: NRA urges new rules for gun 'bump-stocks'

-- 2017-10-06 04:35:34

The National Rifle Association has called for ‘additional regulations’ on bump-stocks, a rapid fire device used by the Las Vegas massacre gunman, reports BBC. The group said, "Devices des...

Iraqi military recaptures Hawija

Iraqi military recaptures Hawija

Reuters 2017-10-05 12:51:59

Iraqi forces have captured the town of Hawija and the surrounding area from Islamic State, the military said in a statement on Thursday. With the capture of Hawija, the militants’ last strongho...

Catalonia mulls declaring independence Monday

Catalonia mulls declaring independence Monday

Reuters 2017-10-05 12:00:00

Catalonia will move on Monday to declare independence from Spain after holding a banned referendum, pushing the European Union nation toward a rupture that threatens the foundations of its young democ...

Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel prize in literature

Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel prize in literature

-- 2017-10-05 12:00:00

English author Kazuo Ishiguro has been named winner of the 2017 Nobel prize for literature. The Swedish Academy praised Ishiguro for his “novels of great emotional force”, which it said h...

Three US troops die in Niger ambush

Three US troops die in Niger ambush

BBC 2017-10-05 10:01:02

Three US soldiers have been killed and two others wounded in an ambush in Niger near the border with Mali, reports say.  Several Nigerien soldiers are also said to have died in the attack. ...

Vegas shooter's girlfriend says no advance knowledge of massacre

Vegas shooter's girlfriend says no advance knowledge of massacre

Reuters 2017-10-05 01:17:28

The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people and himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history was questioned by the FBI on Wednesday and said she had no idea he was &ldqu...

Turkey bomb blast leaves three dead

Turkey bomb blast leaves three dead

Reuters 2017-10-04 12:00:00

A bomb planted by Kurdish militants ripped into a military vehicle, killing four soldiers and wounding four more, as they traveled in southeast Turkey near the border with Iran on Wednesday morning, l...

France approves new anti-terrorism law

France approves new anti-terrorism law

BBC 2017-10-04 12:00:00

France's lower house of parliament has approved a new anti-terrorism law intended to bring an end to a nearly two-year-long state of emergency.  The law will incorporate several measures first a...

GOP poised to pass gun silencer bill

GOP poised to pass gun silencer bill

-- 2017-10-04 12:00:00

Republican leaders are making clear that Congress will take no action on gun legislation in the wake of the massacre in Las Vegas. They refused to entertain Democratic demands to expand background che...

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for method to visualise biomolecules

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for method to visualise biomolecules

-- 2017-10-04 12:00:00

Three scientists won Nobel prize in chemistry for developing a technique to produce detailed images of life’s complex molecular machinery. Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson...

Catalonia to be independent ‘in matter of days’

Catalonia to be independent ‘in matter of days’

-- 2017-10-04 12:00:00

Catalonia will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region has told the BBC. In his first interview since a disputed vote on Sunday, Carles Puigdemont sai...

Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend heads to US

Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend heads to US

-- 2017-10-04 10:51:28

The girlfriend of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock has left the Philippines for the United States, where she is wanted for questioning. Marilou Danley, who arrived in the Philippines in September, de...

Pro-independence Catalans defy King Felipe VI's warning

Pro-independence Catalans defy King Felipe VI's warning

-- 2017-10-04 09:15:34

Pro-independence Catalan leaders are pressing ahead despite an emphatic warning from King Felipe VI, reports BBC. Catalan President Carles Puigdemont told the BBC he would declare independence "at th...

Puerto Rico raises Maria toll to 34

Puerto Rico raises Maria toll to 34

AP 2017-10-04 03:36:44

The official death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico has increased to 34 from 16, the US territory’s governor said Tuesday. Gov. Ricardo Rossello also said he believes the hurricane that...

Las Vegas shooting: Paddock placed cameras in hotel

Las Vegas shooting: Paddock placed cameras in hotel

BBC 2017-10-04 01:24:15

Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed 58 people and injured more than 500 in Las Vegas on Sunday, set up a number of cameras in and around his hotel suite. Two cameras in the hallway and one in the...

Nobel prize in physics awarded for discovery of gravitational waves

Nobel prize in physics awarded for discovery of gravitational waves

-- 2017-10-03 12:00:00

Three American physicists have won the Nobel prize in physics for the discovery of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime that were first anticipated by Albert Einstein a century ago....

Las Vegas shooter 'was a gambler, loner'

Las Vegas shooter 'was a gambler, loner'

Reuters 2017-10-03 11:12:16

Stephen Paddock appeared to be settling into a quiet life a few years ago when the 64-year-old apartment manager and avid gambler bought a home in a quiet Nevada retirement community about an hour's d...

Militant attack on Indian army camp wounds three

Militant attack on Indian army camp wounds three

Xinhua 2017-10-03 11:05:19

At least three troops of India's Border Security Force (BSF) were wounded Tuesday in a predawn militant attack on their camp in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said. The gunmen believed to...

Suu Kyi's 'Freedom of Oxford' award withdrawn

Suu Kyi's 'Freedom of Oxford' award withdrawn

-- 2017-10-03 09:50:43

The Oxford City Council removed the honour, the Freedom of Oxford, awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi, because of her response to the Rohingya crisis. The de facto leader of Myanmar was granted the honour i...

US expels 15 Cuban diplomats

US expels 15 Cuban diplomats

-- 2017-10-03 09:27:05

The United States expelled 15 Cuban diplomats from the embassy in Washington in an escalating response to mysterious illnesses afflicting American embassy personnel in Havana. The expelled embassy pe...

Indian police arrest Ram Rahim's 'adopted daughter', Honeypreet

Indian police arrest Ram Rahim's 'adopted daughter', Honeypreet

-- 2017-10-03 07:57:06

Honeypreet Insan, the 'adopted daughter' of India's self-declared guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, was arrested on Tuesday after being hunted for over a month by the police. The 36-year-old was arrested...

Indian liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya arrested again in London

Indian liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya arrested again in London

-- 2017-10-03 07:28:55

Indian liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya was arrested in London for the second time this year, in a case of money laundering. Mallya was out on bail after his arrest in April following India's extradition r...

Investigators seeking motive behind Vegas shooting

Investigators seeking motive behind Vegas shooting

-- 2017-10-03 06:49:31

As Las Vegas began the process of recovering from one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history, the motive for such an attack looms large. The authorities have yet to provide a motive for Stephe...

MH370's mystery 'almost inconceivable': Report

MH370's mystery 'almost inconceivable': Report

-- 2017-10-03 05:36:18

Australian investigators have delivered their final report into missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370, saying it is "almost inconceivable" the aircraft has not been found, reports BBC. MH370 disappear...

Russian court sentences Navalny jailed again

Russian court sentences Navalny jailed again

-- 2017-10-03 03:56:18

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been given a 20-day prison sentence for repeatedly violating a ban on organising public meetings. His supporters say he was detained to stop him taking pa...

Blasts hit two Ugandan MPs' homes

Blasts hit two Ugandan MPs' homes

-- 2017-10-03 03:44:11

Two Ugandan members of parliament say their residences have been attacked by people who lobbed explosive devices. The lawmakers, Allan Ssewanyana and Robert Kyagulanyi, said Tuesday they believe thei...

Gunman kills 58 in Las Vegas

Gunman kills 58 in Las Vegas

-- 2017-10-02 12:00:00

A 64-year-old man armed with more than 10 rifles rained down gunfire on a Las Vegas country music festival on Sunday, slaughtering at least 58 people in the largest mass shooting in US history before...