Swine flu outbreak kills 76 in India’s Rajasthan state
A swine flu outbreak in one of India’s biggest tourist hubs, Rajasthan state in the west of the country, has killed 76 people this year, government officials said on Wednesday. Colder weather has worsened the seasonal outbreak of the H1N1 virus, with Rajasthan recording more than a third of all swine flu deaths in India, […]
Trump tells lawmakers: Don’t waste your time, deal needs wall
WASHINGTON: With little time to craft a deal over funding security operations on the US-Mexico border, a bipartisan group of lawmakers was to meet in a public work-session on Wednesday even as President Donald Trump maintained a hard line on constructing a massive wall Trump has threatened a resumption of the record-long shutdown if the […]
Corruption seen rising in Trump’s US: watchdog
The US last year slid down the rankings of a global corruption index as America’s system of checks and balances faced growing threats on Donald Trump’s watch, Transparency International said Tuesday. The US lost four points to score 71 out of 100 on the watchdog’s 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index, sending the country tumbling out of […]
Man kills, cuts up and flushes friend down toilet
MUMBAI: A man in India accused of murdering his friend, chopping up his body and flushing the parts down the toilet has been arrested, police said on Thursday. The grisly crime was discovered when residents at the Bachraj Paradise Society apartment complex in Mumbai found chunks of flesh blocking their drains. “While sifting through all the […]
Pakistani chef Fatima Ali passes away after a prolonged battle with cancer
NEW YORK: Brave Pakistani chef Fatima Ali on Friday passed away, after losing a prolonged battle with cancer in New York. 29-year-old, Fatima gained popularity, after appearing in US television show the Top Chef in 2017 and won the contest in 2018, the year she was diagnosed with bone cancer. Fatima’s chemotherapy appeared to benefit […]
President Trump And Congress Leaders Reach Short-Term Deal to End Shutdown
(WASHINGTON) — Submitting to mounting pressure and growing disruption, President Donald Trump agreed to a deal Friday to reopen the government for three weeks, backing down from his demand that Congress give him money for his border wall before federal agencies get back to work. Standing alone in the Rose Garden, Trump said he would […]
UN expert to lead international inquiry into Khashoggi murder
The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions told Reuters on Thursday she will travel to Turkey next week to head an “independent international inquiry” into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. GENEVA: The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions told Reuters on Thursday she will travel […]
Chahal spins India into winning position in final ODI
MELBOURNE – India leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal captured the best figures by any bowler in one-day cricket in Australia to restrict the home side to just 230 in the third and deciding game in Melbourne on Friday. Chahal, playing in his first match in the series after coming in for Test wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav, control the […]
El Chapo’s sons killed Mexican journalist Javier Valdez, witness tells trial
NEW YORK: The sons of former drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman killed Mexican journalist Javier Valdez because he urge on publishing an interview with a drug trafficker, who told of the murder in court Wednesday. Damaso Lopez Nunez, known as “Licenciado” or “Lic,” testified that the slain journalist — who specialized in narcotraffic reporting […]
Four white men arrested over attempted terrorist attack on US Muslim community
NEW YORK CITY: A student’s tip-off led to the arrest and charging of four white men — one of them a teenage boy — on Tuesday for allegedly planning to bomb Islamberg here in the city. The arrested suspects — identified as Andrew Crysel, 18, Vincent Vetromile, 19, and Brian Colaneri, 20 — are “accused […]
