12 dead after gunman fires ‘indiscriminately’ in Virginia govt complex
A municipal employee sprayed gunfire ?indiscriminately? in a government building complex on Friday in the US state of Virginia, police said, killing 12 people and wounding four in the latest mass shooting to rock the country. The shooter was also killed after an extended gun battle with responding officers, in a scene that ?best could be described as ...
D-Day tourism boom brings crowds, and controversy, to Normandy
The number of people visiting the World War II cemeteries, museums and battle sites along the Normandy coast of France has soared in recent years, creating a tourist windfall but generating criticism that a harrowing chapter of history is being sullied by crass commercialism. ?The first museums were created four or five years after the war, first by local ...
Huawei 'not a military company': China defence minister
The United States should bear "sole and entire responsibility" for setbacks in its trade negotiations with China, Beijing said Sunday, alleging that Washington repeatedly changed its demands.
Taliban leader says no ceasefire as US envoy heads to region
?The Taliban?s leader said Saturday the insurgents would not call a ceasefire any time soon, even as a US envoy was heading to the region for a fresh round of peace talks. In a rare and defiant message ahead of what would be the seventh round of recent negotiations, Taliban chief Haibatullah Akhundzada boasted foreign forces in Afghanistan were ...
Eid-ul-Fitr 2019: Moon-sighting bodies in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain to meet on Monday
Moon-sighting committees in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia will meet on Monday to decide the Shawwal moon, Gulf media reported. According to a statement issued by Bahrain News Agency, the panel will convene at the hall of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs to sight the moon for the month of Shawwal, marking the advent of the Eid-ul-Fitr.
D-Day’s 24 hours changed 20th century, and Europe, forever
I could only experience what I could see,? he told The Associated Press, speaking from the now-glimmering Omaha Beach, where he landed 75 years ago. After World War II, Shay continued to witness history ? fighting the Chinese during the Korean War, participating in U.S. atomic tests in the Marshall Islands and later working at the International Atomic Energy ...
India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius
The thermometer hit 50.6 degrees Celsius (123 Fahrenheit) in the Rajasthan desert city of Churu on Saturday, the weather department said. The Indian Meteorological Department said severe heat could stay for up to a week across Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh states. A red alert severe heat warning has been issued in the capital New ...
Saudi king warns attacks could threaten oil supplies
King Salman has called on Gulf and Arab leaders to confront Iran?s ?criminal acts? after sabotage attacks damaged four vessels, two of them Saudi oil tankers, in the Sea of Oman and twin Yemeni rebel drone attacks shut down a key Saudi oil pipeline. ?Undermining the security of the kingdom effectively undermines the security of the Arab and Islamic ...
With Biden absent, his rivals pounce at California gathering
?Some say if we all just calm down, the Republicans will come to their senses,? Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a clear reference to Biden?s comments that the GOP may have an ?epiphany? after President Donald Trump is gone. The time for small ideas is over.? Warren was one of 14 presidential contenders in San Francisco for a ...
Video: Indian extremists beat Muslims for eating alleged cow meat
MUMBAI: Hindu extremists from Hindutva brigade attacked four Muslims labourers for allegedly eating cow meat during breaking their fast in India?s Uttar Pradesh state. In a video, Indian extremists can be seen beating four Muslims with belts. The victims told reporters that they were having a vegetarian meal when the youths arrived and started beating them up, Indian media ...
US cuts off India preferential trade access
India has been the single biggest beneficiary of the decades-old US Generalized System of Preferences programme, allowing the country to export $5.7 billion worth of duty-free goods in 2017, according to figures from US Congress. The Indian government made no immediate comment on Washington?s move, but media reports said New Delhi was considering higher import duties on more than ...
Taliban leader indicates no ceasefire anytime soon
"The doors of dialogue and negotiations have been kept open and at this very moment, the (Taliban) negotiation team... is engaged in negotiations with the American side," Akhundzada said in a message ahead of the upcoming festival of Eid, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Last year, the Taliban observed a three-day ceasefire over Eid ...
Boris Johnson would make ´excellent´ British PM: Trump
US President Donald Trump has said British former foreign minister Boris Johnson would make an "excellent" prime minister to replace Theresa May. Trump was speaking ahead of the start of a state visit to Britain on Monday, during which he will meet May. Asked by the British tabloid newspaper The Sun for his opinion on the 12 candidates to ...
London Jewish community hosts Iftar for Muslims
This? was the first ever Iftar dinner arranged by Woodford United Synagogue, attended by leading local and national Jewish leadership who served food for local Muslims. Rabbi Wollenberg, who organised the event with his family said: ?The event was a huge success, with Muslims and Jews coming together to learn about each other?s faiths and perspectives. For many Muslims, ...
US pulls tax exemption from Pakistani diplomats
The United States said Friday that it had suspended tax exemption privileges enjoyed by Pakistani diplomats in Washington due to parallel disputes with Islamabad in the latest dust-up between the countries. Under the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomats around the world do not pay taxes in countries where they are posted, with embassy staffers in Washington routinely flashing State Department-issued exemption ...
بھارت ،نئی کابینہ کا اعلان ، امیت شاہ وزیر داخلہ بن گئے
بھارت کی نئی کابینہ کا اعلان کر دیا گیا، امیت شاہ وزیر داخلہ، راج ناتھ سنگھ وزیر دفاع، نرملا سیتھا رامن وزیرخزانہ ہونگی۔ بھارتی میڈیاکےمطابق راج ناتھ سنگھ کو وزیر دفاع، امیت شاہ کو وزیرداخلہ اور سابق خارجہ سیکریٹری ایس جے شنکر کو اس بار وزیر خارجہ کا عہدہ دیا جا رہا ہے،جبکہ نرملا سیتھا رامن کو وزارت خزانہ اور کارپوریٹ ...
Kremlin Says Putin's Approval Rating Based On Citizens' Assessment Of Presidential Work
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 31st May, 2019) Approval rating of President is formed by the assessment of his work by citizens, and sociology is often wrong calculating this approval, Kremiln spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
Serbian President Says Kosovar Police Acted Intentionally When Beating Russian UN Staffer
BELGRADE (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 31st May, 2019) Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday that the Kosovar officers who attacked a of the Mission in Kosovo during a law enforcement raid earlier this week did so intentionally to intimidate local Serbs. "Our doctors have been examining him evening, his condition is good ...
Belarus Research Center Established In East China
NANJING, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - APP - 31st May, 2019 ) :A new research center has been established at the University of Science and in east 's Jiangsu Province. The research center, which was unveiled Tuesday, will pool research talent and resources and to develop into a high-end policy think , focusing ...
Assange Suffering 'psychological Torture': UN Expert
Geneva, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - APP - 31st May, 2019 ) :Julian Assange has been subjected to drawn-out "psychological torture", a rights expert said Friday, accusing the , Britain, and of "collective persecution" of the WikiLeaks founder. The special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Nils Melzer, also warned ...
