Pensacola attack: US grounds Saudi aviation students after navy base shooting
The US has grounded hundreds of Saudi military aviation students at bases across the country in the wake of Friday's deadly shooting in Florida.
All flying will be paused, though classroom studies will continue.
It comes after Defence Secretary Mark Esper ordered a review following the shooting of three sailors at a navy base by a Saudi Air Force lieutenant.
The FBI said it was trying to determine the motive of the attacker, who was shot dead by police.
Investigators say they are working on the assumption that it was an act of terrorism.
Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s
Scale and speed of loss much higher than predicted, threatening inundation for hundreds of millions of people
Greenland’s ice sheet is melting much faster than previously thought, threatening hundreds of millions of people with inundation and bringing some of the irreversible impacts of the climate emergency much closer.
Ice is being lost from Greenland seven times faster than it was in the 1990s, and the scale and speed of ice loss is much higher than was predicted in the comprehensive studies of global climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to data.
That means sea level rises are likely to reach 67cm by 2100, about 7cm more than the IPCC’s main prediction. Such a rate of rise will put 400 million people at risk of flooding every year, instead of the 360 million predicted by the IPCC, by the end of the century.
Racism in key Brexit Party campaign
Undercover filming inside the Brexit Party reveals racism and bigotry from two officials fighting for key Hartlepool seat.
A Brexit Party councillor boasted he tried to bury a pig’s head under a mosque, and said Muslims were “outbreeding us” and bring down house prices because they “live like animals”
– He used offensive slurs against black people, Pakistanis and Turks, and Eastern Europeans
– He also bragged of serving repeated bans from football matches, and violently attacking opposition supporters
– He used offensive slurs against black people, Pakistanis and Turks, and Eastern Europeans
– He also bragged of serving repeated bans from football matches, and violently attacking opposition supporters
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi faces Rohingya genocide allegations at UN court
Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is set to personally defend Myanmar against accusations of genocide in The Hague on Tuesday, in a remarkable fall from grace for the woman once hailed as a rights icon.
Myanmar's de facto civilian leader will appear at the International Court of Justice as the Buddhist state disputes claims that it tried to exterminate minority Rohingya Muslims in a 2017 military crackdown.
The west African state of Gambia has launched the first bid to bring Myanmar to international justice over the bloodshed, accusing the southeast Asian nation of breaching the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Why are so few Nobel Prizes awarded to women?
The 2019 Science Nobel award winners are out. Where are the women?
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CONGRESS TO VOTE ON $22 BILLION DEFENSE INCREASE ONE WEEK AFTER TRUMP SLASHED FOOD STAMPS
DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN lawmakers in Congress’s Armed Services committees released a compromise bill on Monday that would authorize $738 billion in military spending in 2020, a $22 billion increase over 2019. If passed, the bill would formally establish President Donald Trump’s proposed “Space Force” as a sixth armed service and bring total annual Pentagon spending increases under Trump to more than $130 billion.
But Democrats on the left flank of the party argue that the compromise signs away important restrictions on Trump’s war-making powers included in the House version of the bill, where an amendment backed by progressives would have prohibited the Trump administration from using any funds to launch an unauthorized, offensive war against Iran.
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