Taliban Claim Responsibility For Deadly Car Bomb Blast In Kabul - Reports
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 31st May, 2019) The radical movement claimed responsibility for the explosion of the bomb-laden in that killed at least four civilians earlier on Friday, the TOLOnews broadcaster reported. The comes a day after at least six people were killed and six others were wounded in a near the ...
The Annual World No Tobacco Day Is Celebrated
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 31st May, 2019) The annual No Tobacco Day is celebrated on Friday, 31. According to the WHO, the tobacco epidemic is one of the significant health threats, as it kills up to half of its users. Tobacco leads to 8 premature deaths each year, while more than 6 of ...
Six dead in IS-claimed blast at Kabul military academy
KABUL: At least six people were killed and 16 more wounded in a suicide blast outside a military academy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, an official said. The attack, which was claimed by the militant Islamic State group, targeted students leaving the Marshal Fahim National Defence University in western Kabul. Opened in 2005 and named after former vice ...
Opinion polls show ousted Istanbul mayor leading in re-run vote
ANKARA: Istanbul?s ousted opposition mayor is leading President Tayyip Erdogan?s AK Party candidate by three percentage points ahead of next month?s re-run mayoral election, according to an opinion poll conducted for the AKP campaign. The president?s party is seeking to reverse a dramatic and narrow loss to the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) candidate Ekrem Imamoglu in March, ...
WHO To Stop Classifying Transgender People As Having 'mental Disorder'
UNITED NATIONS, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - APP - 31st May, 2019 ) :The Health Organization (WHO), a agency, will no longer categorize being transgender as a "mental disorder", after a to amend its health guidelines was approved 25. Moving the disorder into WHO's new chapter for sexual health will also help lift discrimination, ...
UN Rapporteur Says Assange Experienced Prolonged Psychological Torture In UK
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 31st May, 2019) Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Nils Melzer believes that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been recently transferred to the health ward of 's Belmarsh prison, has been subject to psychological torture for several years. Mr Assange has been deliberately exposed, ...
World’s tiniest surviving baby born in US
LOS ANGELES: A California hospital on Wednesday disclosed the birth of the world?s smallest baby ever to survive, weighing a mere 245 grams (8.6 ounces) ? the same as a large apple ? when she was born. Doctors said that apart from Saybie?s fighting spirit, her survival as a micro-preemie ? a baby born before 28 weeks? gestation ? ...
Pentagon calls Turkey plan to buy Russian missile ‘devastating’
Washington: A top Pentagon official said on Thursday the consequences would be ?devastating? for Turkey?s joint F-35 fighter program and its cooperation with NATO if the country bought a Russian missile defense system. Kathryn Wheelbarger, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, said that Ankara?s planned purchase of the S-400 system would damage Turkey?s ability to work ...
Seven South Koreans drown in Budapest tourist boat tragedy
?The current was so fast and people were floating away but the rescue team did not come,? a rescued 31-year-old woman identified only by her surname Jung told South Korea?s news agency. The 26-metre Mermaid, which sank near Hungary?s parliament building, was dwarfed by the vessel it collided with ? the 135-metre four-storey Viking Sigyn ?longship? which had ...
China factory activity contracts in May
BEIJING:China?s manufacturing activity contracted more than expected in May, official data showed Friday, amid a bruising trade war with the United States and slowing domestic demand. Production softened while new orders fell into contraction territory, indicating ?weakening market demand?, NBS analyst Zhao Qinghe said in a statement. US President Donald Trump?s tariff hike on $200 billion in Chinese goods ...
Saudi king demands firm Arab stand on Iran's 'criminal' acts
MAKKAH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Friday ratcheted up the rhetoric against arch-nemesis Iran, calling on Arab states to confront its "criminal" actions after on oil installations sparked fears of a regional conflagration. The king's remarks came at the start of two back-to-back emergency summits in the holy city of Makkah, which drew near-unanimous support for the Sunni kingdom from ...
WHO to stop classifying transgender people as having ‘mental disorder’
UNITED NATIONS, May 31 (APP):The World Health Organization (WHO), a UN agency, will no longer categorize being transgender as a “mental disorder”, after a resolution to amend its health guidelines was approved May 25. WHO approved a resolution to remove “gender identity disorder” from its global manual of diagnoses, in a move that will have a “liberating effect on transgender people ...
Pakistan assails rigid stance of candidates for permanent seats in talks on UNSC reform
UNITED NATIONS, May 31 (APP):Pakistan has described as the “mother of all absurdities” the uncompromising stand of countries pursuing permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) single-mindedly, while complaining about lack of headway in the negotiations to reform the 15-member body. Without naming the Group of Four countries — India , Brazil, Japan and Germany — Ambassador Maleeha ...
Saudi king demands firm Arab stand on Iran’s ‘criminal’ acts
Saudi Arabia?s King Salman on Friday ratcheted up the rhetoric against arch-nemesis Iran, calling on Arab states to confront its ?criminal? actions after attacks?on oil installations sparked fears of a regional conflagration. The king?s remarks came at the start of two back-to-back emergency summits in the holy city of Makkah, which drew near-unanimous support for the Sunni kingdom ...
US to hit Mexico with tariffs over ‘illegal migrants’
Washington will impose a five percent tariff on all goods from Mexico ? increasing to as much as 25 percent ? until ?illegal migrants? stop coming through the country into the US, President Donald Trump said Thursday. ?On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until ...
Captain arrested in Hungary boat accident as families arrive
Hungarian police have detained the captain of a cruise ship that collided with a sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists, causing it to sink quickly in the Danube River, as loved ones of the missing and dead were expected to arrive Friday in Budapest. A South Korean group on a package tour of Europe ? including 30 tourists, ...
5 foreigners accused of selling drugs in Bali
Indonesian authorities have arrested an American, two Spaniards and two Russians for selling cocaine and marijuana in Bali, police said Friday. He said the arrests began when police caught a 33-year-old Russian man, identified only as Nikita, arranging cocaine sales by phone to foreign tourists.
Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of 'sowing division''
Saudi Arabia has "continued to sow division between Islamic countries and in the region, which is the wish of the Zionist regime," foreign ministry spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said.
Iran rejects Arab summit accusations
?Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi? rejected the baseless accusations by the heads of certain Arab countries ? and said ?We see the Saudi effort to mobilize (regional) opinion as part of the hopeless process followed by America and the Zionist regime against Iran?,? state news agency IRNA said.
Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘sowing division”
Tehran accused Riyadh Friday of “sowing division” in the region to Israel´s advantage after the kingdom hosted summits of Gulf and Arab leaders. Saudi Arabia has “continued to sow division between Islamic countries and in the region, which is the wish of the Zionist regime,” foreign ministry spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said.
