Germany riot: Gangs smash shops and attack police in Stuttgart
BERLIN: Hundreds of people ran riot in Germany´s Stuttgart city centre in the early hours Sunday, throwing stones and bottles at police and plundering stores after smashing shop windows. “Police are currently securing leads and are interrogating more than 20 people who have been provisionally arrested,” authorities in the southwestern city said in a statement. […]
New York City to remove former US President Roosevelt’s statue over racism concerns
NEW YORK: New York City announced Sunday it would remove a statue of former US President Theodore Roosevelt long criticised as a racist and colonialist symbol, but the move drew criticism from Donald Trump. The decision comes with the United States gripped by widespread protests against racial inequality — sparked by the killing in police […]
2 dead, 12 hurt after gunfire erupts at northwest Charlotte Juneteenth party
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — At least two people were killed and a dozen people were injured when a Juneteenth celebration turned violent on Beatties Ford Road in north Charlotte late Sunday night, police said. According to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police, officers responded to a report of a pedestrian being hit on Beatties Ford Road around 12:30 a.m. When […]
Oil falls below $40 on record US inventories, COVID fears
Oil slipped below $40 a barrel on Thursday after a more than 5% fall the previous session, as record-high U.S. crude inventories and a resurgence in coronavirus cases cast doubt on a recovery in fuel demand. U.S. crude stocks rose 1.4 million barrels to a record high, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. This […]
U.S. records 34,700 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday; highest one-day total since April
A coronavirus resurgence is wiping out two months of progress in the U.S. and sending infections to dire new levels across the South and West, with administrators and health experts warning on Wednesday that politicians and a tired-of-being-cooped-up public are letting a disaster unfold. The U.S. recorded a one-day total of 34,700 new COVID-19 cases, […]
Abhay Deol exposes nepotism in Bollywood
The unfortunate demise of actor Sushant Singh Rajput has sparked an ongoing debate in Bollywood regarding nepotism, favouritism, and all the ways in which the industry is far from welcoming newcomers. Taking to social media, actor Abhay Deol is speaking up about the prejudice he faced while simultaneously calling out award shows. In a post […]
US arrests Pakistan-born Fahad Shah for million-dollar fraud
DALLAS: Pakistan-born American Fahad H. Shah has been arrested in Texas by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for a million-dollar fraud and deception, US authorities confirmed Wednesday. Shah was produced Tuesday morning in the court of East Texas Eastern District Magistrate Judge Christine A. Novak. He hails from Hyderabad, Pakistan, and has been doing […]
Altaf Hussain to stand terror trial starting June 1, 2020
LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain will go on trial at the Old Bailey on 1st June, 2020, in the terrorism case brought against him by Crown Prosecution Service’s Counter Terrorism Division related to the incitement speech made in August 2016 from London to Karachi. The MQM supremo appeared at the Old Bailey […]
U.S. virus cases near an all-time high as governors backtrack
The coronavirus crisis deepened in Arizona on Thursday, and the governor of Texas began to backtrack after making one of the most aggressive pushes in the nation to reopen, as the daily number of confirmed cases across the U.S. closed in on the peak reached during the dark days of late April. While greatly expanded […]
Hindustan Unilever to drop Fair from Fair & Lovely
The Indian unit of Unilever, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, announced on Thursday, 25 June, that it has decided to drop the word ‘Fair’ from its ‘Fair & Lovely’ range of products. The Fair & Lovely range of HUL has long been criticised for racism through its advertising and general branding that was discriminatory against people with […]
