Canada wants ´full clarity´ on shootdown: PM Justin Trudeau tells Iran
OTTAWA: A “furious” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau demanded Saturday that Iran provide Canada with “full clarity” on the shootdown near Tehran of a Ukrainian airliner that killed all 176 aboard, including dozens of Canadian citizens. Trudeau said he made the demand in a call with Iran´s President Hassan Rouhani, who admitted earlier Saturday that the […]
Knife attack by inmates wearing fake suicide vests treated as terrorism
LONDON: An assault on prison officers by two inmates wearing fake suicide belts at a maximum security jail is being treated as a terror attack, police said. One officer suffered stab wounds to his head, chest and face after he was attacked from behind by the prisoners armed with improvised bladed weapons. He and four […]
Fiancee systematic murdering of Ravinder Singh, a Pakistani Sikh
Peshawar: The Peshawar police in Pakistan have cracked the mystery of a Sikh youths murder and arrested his fiancee in the case on Friday. The 25-year-old Sikh youth Ravinder Singh from the remote Shangla district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, was found dead in Peshawar on Sunday. Ravinder Singh, said to be the brother of a Sikh journalist Harmeet […]
Canadian traveler Rosie Gabrielle converts to Islam
Canadian traveler Rosie Gabrielle, who spent an ample amount of time in Pakistan last month, announced she had converted to Islam. The solo traveler, who has toured various Muslim countries around the world on a bike, shared her experiences that brought her close to Islam. “This last year was one of the hardest in my […]
French Unions Battle Macron in Make-Or-Break Pension Protest
PARIS: French trade unions disrupted rail services, shut schools and brought demonstrators onto the streets in cities across France on Thursday in a make-or-break push to force President Emmanuel Macron to abandon his planned pension reform. The country’s hard-left unions rallied supporters hoping to regain momentum at a time participation in a 36-day long public […]
Rana Sana appears before anti-graft watchdog in assets case
Islamabad: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Lahore, on Thursday again summoned Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) firebrand leader Rana Sanaullah Khan on February 3 in a case of assets beyond means. The PML-N leader and president of the party in Punjab has been directed to bring along documents of his land and farmhouse. Sanaullah was earlier […]
Nirbhaya’s rapist-killers to hang at 7am on January 22: Court
NEW DELHI: An Indian court Tuesday ordered the execution on January 22 of four men convicted of the infamous 2012 gang rape and murder of a Delhi university student who later came to be known as Nirbhaya — the fearless. Six people were originally charged with taking part in the brutal attack aboard a city bus but […]
Death toll in Soleimani’s funeral rises to more than 50
ERMAN: More than 50 people were crushed to death Tuesday at the funeral of a top Iranian military commander, Qassem Soleimani, in the southeastern city of Kerman, Iranian media reported, citing a morgue count. The tragedy left 212 people injured, a small number of whom were in a serious condition, semi-official news agency ISNA added, citing Kerman’s […]
Jennifer Dulos’ estranged husband charged with murder in her disappearance
The estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five who went missing from her home in an affluent area of Connecticut last year, was arrested Tuesday and charged with her murder, his lawyer said. The husband, Fotis Dulos, 52, was arrested at his home in Farmington, Connecticut, around 11am, said the lawyer, Norm Pattis. […]
