Pensacola attack is presumed terrorism - FBI
The FBI says it is treating Friday's deadly attack on a Florida navy base as a presumed terrorist attack.
The Saudi gunman - who was training at the Pensacola site - killed three sailors before he was shot dead.
Special agent Rachel Rojas said the FBI was trying to determine if he had acted alone or had connections to a group.
She said other Saudi students had had been questioned but not arrested. They were reportedly confined to the base and co-operating with investigators.
Aung San Suu Kyi heads to The Hague for Myanmar genocide showdown
Peace prize winner will lead her country’s defence against claims at court in Netherlands
A momentous legal confrontation will take place at the UN’s highest court on Tuesday when the Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi appears in person to defend Myanmar against accusations of genocide.
Once internationally feted as a human rights champion, Myanmar’s state counsellor is scheduled to lead a delegation to the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague.
The claim that Myanmar’s military carried out mass murder, rape and destruction of Rohingya Muslim communities has been brought by the Gambia, a west African state that belongs to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
‘Combatting hidden enemies’: Meet the women on the front line of de-mining Afghanistan
Having defied insults from men in the streets, women are increasingly playing a key role in ridding the war-torn country of explosives that kill nearly 100 people each month, write Roshan De Stone and David L Suber
Nearly 100 Afghans are killed every month by unexploded mines, and yet when Gulandam first signed up to help with de-mining efforts, men would hurl insults at her in the street.
“At the beginning we faced many problems, especially when we used to walk around Bamyan wearing our de-mining clothes,” explains Gulandam, one of the first 16 female de-miners on a team whose funding is provided by the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS).
Her family were also worried that the job was “too risky” for a woman.
Afghanistan has been ranked by Amnesty International as the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman, and with the recent murder of parliamentary adviser Mena Mengal for her public role, Gulandam understood the risk she was taking going to work every day.
Corruption, Clientelism and MurderMalta Emerges as the EU's Next Problem Child
Two years after the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta's vast cesspool of corruption has become impossible to ignore. The EU's smallest member state is on the brink of failure.
"There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate."Daphne Caruana Galizia on Oct. 16, 2017, in her last blog entry, posted 24 minutes before her murder.
It's tempting to ask Corinne Vella how she avoided going crazy in the last two years. It is one thing, after all, to lose your sister to a hit job -- to learn that she was murdered in cold blood by a car bomb. But it is quite another to live with the conviction that neither the police, nor the country's government nor public prosecutors seem to have much of an interest in getting to the bottom of the crime.
Scientists discovered 71 new species this year. Here are some of their favorites
The quest for the unknown revealed exciting new discoveries this year. California Academy of Sciences researchers discovered 71 new animal and plant species in 2019.
The list includes flowers, fish, corals, spiders, sea slugs, ants and lizards, among others. They were found across three oceans and five continents in caves, forests and even the greatest depths of the ocean.
Learning more about these intriguing new species allows for a greater understanding of environments and biomes, as well as targeted conservation efforts.
Giant rally marks six months of Hong Kong's democracy protests
Anger builds over Carrie Lam's refusal to address protesters' demands, including inquiry into alleged police brutality.
by Violet Law
Braving an unseasonal chill, protesters returned to Hong Kong's central park on Sunday in their hundreds of thousands as the anti-government movement hit the half-year mark.
A sea of demonstrators, mostly clad in signature black attire, plodded peacefully along the six-lane main road from Victoria Park to the downtown business district.
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