Saudi Arabia rejects international Khashoggi killing probe
Saudi Arabia on Thursday reiterated its rejection of calls for an international, independent investigation into the murder of journalist, insisting it was well equipped to bring the perpetrators to justice. The head of a Saudi delegation speaking before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva insisted that his country was taking all the “measures required […]
Many dead in New Zealand mosque shooting
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A witness says many people have been killed in a mass shooting at the Masjid Al Noor mosque in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. Police have not described the scale of the Friday shooting but urged people in central Christchurch to stay indoors. New Zealand media also said a […]
Two Top Lieutenants of Indian PM’s Modi Unwell Months Before Election
The president of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Amit Shah, said on Wednesday that he was being treated for swine flu, the second member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inner circle to be unwell this week. Shah is charged with crafting the strategy for Modi’s re-election bid in a vote that must be held by […]
#MeToo: Director Raju Hirani denies sexual assault allegations
Bollywood director Rajkumar Hirani has denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a subordinate over a period of six months in 2018. It quoted an unnamed woman, nearly 30 years younger than Hirani, who alleged the 56-year-old director sexually assaulted her on more than one occasion. In a statement late on Sunday, Hirani denied all allegations. […]
Muslim man fined £170 for saying ‘Allahu Akbar’ in public in Switzerland
Switzerland police fined £178 to a Muslim man for saying ‘Allahu Akbar’ publicly because passerby could have mistaken him for a terrorists. The man explained in the account that he had used the phrase after spotting a friend while walking through Schaffhausen, northern Switzerland, in May last year. The man Orhan told that he thought nothing […]
Meera expresses desire to work with SRK in films
The star has expressed her desire to work in Hollywood numerous times. But what we didn’t know was that she once told an LA Times reporter that she will determine the right time to act with Bollywood superstar, Shah Rukh Khan. Recently, taking to Twitter, the star, who ventured into Bollywood with Nazar, wrote, “I was once asked […]
UK police probe Manchester knife incident as ‘terrorist’ attack
MANCHESTER: A British police probe into a triple stabbing at a Manchester railway station on New Year’s Eve which injured three people is now being treated as “a terrorist investigation”, the city’s top officer said on Tuesday (Jan 1). Counter-terrorism police have arrested a 25-year-old man who remains in custody, and are searching an address where […]
Bollywood actor Kader Khan passes away
Bollywood actor and writer Kader Khan passed away on Monday night after a prolonged illness in Canada, his son Sarfraz Khan confirmed. He was 81 years old. “My dad has left us. He passed away on December 31 at 6pm as per Canadian time due to prolonged illness. He slipped into coma in the afternoon. […]
Democrats plan to end US govt shutdown, without wall money
WASHINGTON: Democrats in the House of Representatives are planning a vote on Thursday on a funding package to end the 10-day-old partial U.S. government shutdown without providing the US$5 billion President Donald Trump has demanded for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. The two-part package will include a bill to keep funding for the Department of Homeland […]
US federal government shutdown enters second week with no resolution in sight
The conflict remains centred on President Donald Trump’s wish for a physical wall at the US-Mexico border, but even the nature of that demand become freshly mired in controversy after John Kelly, the outgoing White House chief of staff, said the administration had long since moved away from the concrete barrier Trump has often described […]
