Новости за 02.10.2017

Egyptian port authorities seized a North Korean ship stuffed with rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) that was part of an illegal weapons smuggling scheme in August 2016, the Washington Post reported on Monday. The incident is the apparent root of tensions between Egypt and the US, allies who have been at odds in recent months for ambiguous reasons.

On Sunday, a new “burqa ban” went into effect in Austria, prohibiting the public wearing of the niqab, which covers the face except for the eyes, as well as the Afghan burqa - the most concealing of all Islamic veils - which covers the entire face with a net-like cloth. The law also outlaws wearing clown masks, balaclavas and ski masks in public.

The USS Ronald Reagan made a rare port call in Hong Kong Monday, a visit approved by the Chinese Foreign Ministry ahead of the supercarrier’s planned drills later this month with the South Korean military, according to the South China Morning Post.

Three-time Grammy winner and legendary musician Tom Petty has died in a Los Angeles hospital, reports the LA police department. He was 66.

“Do you think it’s edible?”

At least 19 weapons, including 10 rifles and an assortment of handguns, have been discovered in the room of the sniper who massacred at least 58 people at a concert in the US city of Los Vegas, media reported on Monday.

Just hours after an attacker fired a hail of bullets at concertgoers along the Las Vegas strip Sunday night, hundreds of locals made their way to blood banks to do their part to help victims.

The US military will be installing the Israeli-built Trophy Active Protection System (APS) meant to intercept and destroy incoming missiles or rockets on their M1A2 Abrams tanks. This will make the US military the only other besides the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to use the defensive system.

After serving nine years in a Las Vegas prison, former American football star OJ Simpson was released Sunday and he now apparently wants millions of dollars from whatever TV station gets to interview him first.

A total of 24 Daesh terrorists were killed in Syrian separate operations near the cities of Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa, local media reported on Monday, citing anonymous sources.

North Korea’s upcoming national holidays, combined with intelligence from South Korean and US sources that Pyongyang has recently moved missiles from a research and development facility, have experts warning that a new weapons test of some sort by the country may be imminent.

Austria's ban on Islamic full-face veils has come into effect, hailed as a victory by those concerned with Muslims' lack of drive toward assimilation. But some observers say the ban could become as just another administrative issue for police to deal with, while its extension to medical and carnival masks calls into question its true purpose.

A Sputnik correspondent has traveled to Syria's Deir ez-Zor to look at the life of a family that had lived for years in close proximity to Daesh terrorists.

The high-tech cooperation between Belgrade and Moscow is being highly developed, Serbian Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister told Sputnik on Monday.

Government buildings and schools were closed down on Monday in Pahrump, Nevada, following reports that a gunman was inside a children's school in the town located about 50 miles due west of Las Vegas, Nevada.

American citizen Laura Morales from Fillmore, California in an interview to Sputnik spoke about recent Las Vegas shooting.

Joint Russian-Serbian BARS tactical flight drills kicked off in the Russian central city of Lipetsk, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Monday.

Moscow protests against the illegal seizure of Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States and says it reserves right to retaliate, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Students have gathered for a rally in one of the largest Barcelona's squares, Placa de Catalunya, or the Square of Catalonia, to voice their protest against the violence of the Spanish law enforcers who attempted to thwart Catalonia's recently held independence referendum, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the site on Monday.

UK PM offered condolences amid the recent shooting in Las Vegas, the White House said in a press release on Monday.

On this episode of "Fault Lines", hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan will report breaking news on the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

Russian government signed a decree on the establishment of four new accelerated development territories in the country.

A vast majority of voters in last month's independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan have voted in favor of breaking with Baghdad, prompting concerns throughout the region, particularly among countries with significant ethnic Kurdish populations. Sputnik turned to international affairs expert Ardeshir Pashang to gauge Tehran's possible reaction.

French President Emmanuel Macron's idea of shared border police, a joint defense force and budget that was made public last week, is difficult to implement as European countries have different goals and different laws, experts told Sputnik.

One Twitter user in Japan stumbled upon several photos of weird “KFC-inspired” trousers and shared them with other netizens who can’t get over them.