Las Vegas shooting: Paddock's girlfriend denies knowledge of attack
The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman who shot dead 58 people on Sunday has said she had no idea what her "kind, caring, quiet" partner was planning.
Marilou Danley's comments came hours before police suggested Stephen Paddock had been living "a secret life".
They said he may have been planning to escape instead of shooting himself dead, but did not give further details.
It is not yet known why he opened fire on an open-air concert, committing the worst shooting in modern US history.
Rohingya crisis: UN 'suppressed' report predicting its shortcomings in Myanmar
Insiders claim strategy review warning of imminent crisis in Rakhine state and urging immediate action was smothered by the official who commissioned it
The UN commissioned and then “suppressed” a report that criticised its strategy in Myanmar and warned it was ill-prepared to deal with the impending Rohingyacrisis, sources have told the Guardian.
The review, written by a consultant and submitted in May, offered a highly critical analysis of the UN’s approach and said there should be “no silence on human rights”.
The report, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, accurately predicted a “serious deterioration” in the six months following its submission and urged the UN to undertake “serious contingency planning”.
The Great Dying: Earth's biggest mass extinction 'caused by Siberian volcanoes' 250 million years ago
Around 95 per cent of marine life and 70 per cent of life on land was wiped out in 'The Great Dying'
Earth’s largest ever extinction ever may have been caused by massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia, according to new research.
Around 95 per cent of marine life and 70 per cent of life on land was wiped out in “The Great Dying” about 252 million years ago
The new study published in the Scientific Reports journal, claims the extinction was triggered by the release of more than 200 billion gallons of molten lava over a stretch of land called the Siberian Traps.
Scientists found spikes in the amount of nickel – an element formed by volcanic magma – in rocks dating from the period also known as the Great Permian Extinction in countries around the globe, including China, Israel and Hungary.
Catalan independence: Spain rejects calls for mediation by Catalan President Carles Puigdemont
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy asked Carles Puigdemont to abandon the independence drive as a prerequisite to talks. The Catalan parliament is expected to unilaterally declare independence from Spain next week.
Spain on Wednesday turned down calls by Catalan President Carles Puigdemont for mediation to find a way out of the violent political crisis sparked off by the region's controversial referendum for independence on Sunday that ended with a rash of violence that left hundreds injured.
"If Mr. Puigdemont wants to talk or negotiate, or wants to send mediators, he knows perfectly well what he must do first: Return to the path of the law," Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's office said in a statement.
Rajoy was responding to a call for mediation by Puigdemont made earlier during a televised address.
"This moment calls for mediation. We have received various offers in the last hours and we will receive more," Puigdemont said. "But we have never received a positive response from the state."
Iraqi forces 'recapture' town of Hawija from Islamic State group
Iraqi forces said Thursday they had retaken the centre of Islamic State (IS) group stronghold Hawija and were pushing forward in their assault on one of the jihadists' last enclaves in the country.
Troops, police and paramilitaries "liberated the whole of the centre of Hawija and are continuing their advance," the operation's commander, Lieutenant General Abdel Amir Yarallah, said.
Government and allied forces backed by a US-led coalition launched an offensive last month to oust the IS group from Hawija, a longtime insurgent bastion.
The town is among the final holdouts from the territory seized by the jihadists in 2014 and its recapture would leave only a handful of remote outposts in IS group hands.
The United Nations said on Tuesday that an estimated 12,500 people had fled the town since the launch of the offensive to retake Hawija and surrounding areas last month.
Koike's economic policy mix dubbed 'Yurinomics'
The newly formed Party of Hope led by Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike plans to introduce an economic policy mix dubbed "Yurinomics," according to the manifesto, which will be presented in tandem with its electoral pledges for the lower house poll on Oct. 22.
Despite her position at the center of the new party's campaign, Koike reiterated Thursday that she does not plan to resign as governor to run in the general election, for which official campaigning will begin on Tuesday next week.
The Party of Hope supports -- as does the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and the smaller Komeito party -- revising the 70-year-old Japanese Constitution for the first time.
The Yurinomics name riffs off the "Abenomics" policy package championed by Abe. Koike's party, founded just last week, aims to take power from the coalition that has ruled under Abe for nearly five years.
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