The girlfriend of the shooter who killed 59 people in Las Vegas on Sunday has returned to the United States from the Philippines in what investigators hope would shed light on what drew the retiree to commit his rampage. Marilou Danley, who US authorities have described as a “person of interest” in
Three scientists, whose discoveries on gravitational waves, have been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology are the recipients of the award, announced by Sweden̵
Spain was braced for further political upheaval Wednesday after Catalonia’s leader Carles Puigdemont said the region would declare independence “in a matter of days”. Puigdemont told the BBC in an interview that his government would “act at the end of this week or the beginni
The World Health Organization said Tuesday there was a “moderate risk” that a plague outbreak in Madagascar would spread to other countries in the region, reported AFP on Tuesday. WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told reporters the current outbreak had more potential than most to spread
Saudi Arabia’s national Cabinet session welcomed on Tuesday the Public Investment Fund’s decision on establishing development companies tasked with enhancing visitor accommodation capacities of the Kingdom. King Salman bin Abdulaziz, chairing the session in Jeddah, also expressed his looking forward
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Chief Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani strongly condemned on Tuesday the terrorist bombing which tore through Al-Budaiya Street in Bahrain yesterday, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned news agency (SPA) reported. The attack injured a number of security men on duty. Al
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah convened a cabinet meeting in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip for the first time in three years. This marks a major step towards reconciliation between the mainstream Fatah party and Islamist group Hamas. “Today, we stand before an important, historical m
US President Donald Trump will fly to Puerto Rico on Tuesday to survey the destruction caused by Hurricane Maria in a show of solidarity with survivors amid criticism that the government was slow to respond to the disaster two weeks after it struck. The president is expected to spend more than five
A day after he was sentenced to 20 days in jail, the Kremlin warned on Tuesday supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny against holding unsanctioned rallies. The organizers of such events would be prosecuted, it warned. Navalny was sentenced on Monday to a third term in jail for callin
The new US ambassador to Russia presented on Tuesday his credentials to President Vladimir Putin in what the Kremlin hoped would pave the way for a new phase of ties between Washington and Moscow. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comments to reporters in a conference call ahead of Jon Huntsm
Five suspects were interrogated on Tuesday for their possible connection to a failed bomb discovered in an apartment building in a posh neighborhood in the French capital Paris. Judicial sources said the explosive device included two gas canisters inside the building in the affluent 16th district of
Still reeling from the worst shooting in its modern history, the US sought on Tuesday to come to grips with the fallout of the shooting that left 59 people dead in Las Vegas. Police searched for clues that would shed light on why a retiree with a penchant for gambling but no criminal record set [&he
Legendary US rocker Tom Petty died on Monday after suffering cardiac arrest. The artist, who gained famed with such hits as “Refugee,” “Free Fallin’” and “American Girl,” was 66. He was found unconscious at his home in Malibu early on Monday morning and was taken to UCLA Medical Center but could not
Both Saudi Arabia and Russia had agreed at a meeting, on the sidelines of the G20 summit held in China in 2016, to strengthen their cooperation, said the Saudi state-owned news agency (SPA). The two countries also agreed to explore the possibility of establishing a common database on advanced energy
Myanmar told the United Nations refugee agency on Monday its top priority was to bring back Rohingyas who have fled to Bangladesh, but much work was needed to “consolidate stability” in its troubled northern region of Rakhine. Win Myat Aye, Myanmar’s Union Minister, Minister of Social Welfare, Relie
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, reported “at least two blasts” hit the Syria’s capital Damascus on Monday. A bomb attack hit a southern district of Damascus, Syrian state media reported. “Initial information of a terrorist explosion in the Mi
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday in what is seen as a major step towards ending the decade-long rift between Fatah and Hamas, which seized control of the coastal strip in 2007. Hamdallah drove through the Israeli Erez crossing, heading a large delegati
At least 20 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when a gunman opened fire at a music festival in the US city of Las Vegas on Sunday. The attacker fired down from the 32nd floor of a hotel, where he was shot dead by police. Police described the suspect as being a local […]
Catalans voted 90 percent in favor of breaking away with Spain after in a turbulent referendum that was marred by a violent police crackdown on voters. Catalonia has “won the right to become an independent state,” Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said after the polls closed, adding th
Catalan officials say at least 337 people have been injured in clashes as Spanish riot police tried to halt a banned referendum on a split from Spain as Madrid asserted its authority over the rebel region. The Spanish government has pledged to stop a poll that was declared illegal by the countryR
