Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has said that he is not pursuing a "traumatic" split from Spain but a "new understanding."
The annual announcements of Nobel Prize winners will begin on October 2, with medicine being the first category to be disclosed in Stockholm.
Police in Las Vegas say at least 50 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in a mass shooting in the U.S. city of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Police say more than 20 people are dead and more than 100 wounded after a shooting near a hotel in the U.S. city of Las Vegas.
The leader of Catalonia opened the door to a unilateral declaration of independence after regional officials said more than 90 percent of Catalans voted in favor of a split from Spain in a referendum called illegal by national authorities in Madrid.
French authorities say they opened a counterterror investigation after two women died in a knife attack at the main train station in the southern city of Marseille.
Human rights groups have voiced severe concern and sought ways to help after activists said dozens of gay people had been jailed following raids by the authorities in Azerbaijan in recent weeks.
Polling stations in the Spanish region of Catalonia are scheduled to open at 9 a.m. on October 1 for an independence referendum that national authorities in Madrid have called “illegal” and vowed to block.
Afghan authorities say suicide attackers have detonated a bomb near a large Shi'ite mosque in Kabul, killing at least one other person and wounding up to 20 more as worshippers prepare to commemorate Ashura, the holiest celebration in the Shi'ite religious calendar.
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