The Spanish government will meet on Wednesday due to the extraordinary situation created on Tuesday after President of the regional government of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, said the effects of the declaration of independence will be suspended to open a period of dialogue. Spain’s Deputy Prime Minster, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, said on Tuesday there would […]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took a formal step to repeal measures put in place by former US President Barack Obama that would limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Tuesday issued a notice of proposed rulemaking, proposing to repeal the so-called Clean Power Plan, Xinhua news agency […]
The White House has said US military leaders had briefed President Donald Trump on options regarding North Korea nuclear issue. US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford on Tuesday briefed Trump on a range of options to respond to any form of “aggression” from North Korea […]
Pakistan has again tried to sneak the Kashmir issue into a General Assembly debate with no relevance to the topic, but India took the high road refusing to be drawn into a “distraction” from the agenda set for the meeting. Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi devoted a significant part of her speech to Kashmir at […]
UN aid agencies are helping the Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar into Bangladesh, said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric. The number of Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh since late August has reached 519,000, an increase by 4,000 over the weekend, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Aid workers continued to […]
A Texas Tech University student fatally shot a campus police officer in the head, according to varsity authorities. The incident took place on Monday night when campus police were making a student welfare check, reports CBS News. Upon entering the suspect’s room, officers found drug paraphernalia, according to a university statement. The suspect was then […]
Stephen Paddock shot a security guard before he opened fire on an open-air concert in Las Vegas on October 1 killing 59 people, a senior police official announced. Paddock shot Jesus Campos in the leg, injuring him at 9.59 p.m. on October 1, CNN quoted Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo as saying on Monday night. […]
US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump has urged Congress to act on immigration and called the fate of immigrants who have been covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme a “very complicated issue”. “You do have the question of the Dreamers: 800,000 young people, most of whom are under 25, most […]
More than 60,000 people took to the streets gathered to commemorate the 50th death anniversary of Latin American revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Cuban President Raul Castro was present at a mass rally on Sunday at the Che Guevara Mausoleum in the town of Santa Clara, 300 km east of Havana, reports Xinhua news agency. The […]
US Vice President Mike Pence walked out of a football game after a large number of players knelt while the national anthem was being played, the media reported. The incident ook place at the Indianapolis Colts’ game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday afternoon, reports The Washington Post. Pence announced his departure via his […]