After several quiet years, tornadoes erupt in United States
After several quiet years, tornadoes have erupted in the United States over the last two weeks as a volatile mix of warm, moist air from the Southeast and persistent cold from the Rockies clashed and stalled over the Midwest. On Monday, the US tied its current record of 11 consecutive days with at least eight tornadoes confirmed on each ...
Pakistani artist Arshia Sohail’s work presented at Global Media Forum
BONN: Pakistani artist Arshia Sohail concept of freedom through iron cage structured with 'Seven letters of freedom' is being presented at the Global Media Forum. Previous attempt to bring Sohail?s work to Germany was failed due to visa denial to artist on the legal grounds by the Germany embassy in Pakistan. Sohail?s work highlighted the discrepancy of freedom as ...
Myanmar’s military committing fresh war crimes against Rohingya Muslims: Amnesty
NEW YORK, May 29 (APP):The Myanmar military units, which committed war crimes against Rohingya Muslims in 2017, are still committing atrocities against the minority group, according to a new report from Amnesty International, a leading human rights group.
Ramazan in Mideast is for fasting and Facebook, data shows
People in the Middle East spend close to 58 million more hours on Facebook during Ramadan and watch more YouTube videos ? everything from beauty tips and recipes to sports and TV dramas ? than any other time of the year, making the holy month not only the most important one for Muslims, but also the prime time of ...
Merkel team talks climate as voters turn up heat
?After this European election, the CDU must ask itself why, after 14 years of having a ?climate chancellor?, we are missing our climate targets, burdening households and companies with the highest electricity prices in Europe and at the same time losing strategic and cultural control over the issue,? he told news site Der Spiegel. ?I cannot take responsibility for ...
India PM to host China’s Xi for informal summit
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host Chinese President Xi Jinping this year for an informal summit, an Indian foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, after meeting several times over the past year to try to defuse tension. Modi may also hold his first bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump in over two years on the sidelines of ...
Arrest warrant issued for Myanmar hard-line monk Wirathu
A court in Myanmar has issued an arrest warrant for a nationalist Buddhist monk, Wirathu, on a charge of sedition, police said on Wednesday. Wirathu is known for his rhetoric against minority Muslims, particularly the Rohingya community, but he has also been critical of the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi and supportive of Myanmar?s powerful military. ?We ...
IRG sends chilling threat to Trump — ‘You are not as POWERFUL as before’
According to CBS News, General Ramadan Sharif, a spokesman for the IRG, said: ?The enemy is not more powerful than before.? He believes the US has not improved on its power in recent years and feels this could benefit Iran if conflict were to happen. He reaffirmed the US? desire to hold talks on the matter He added: ?I do believe ...
Iranian naval mines likely used in UAE tanker attacks: Bolton
US National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Wednesday that attacks on oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates this month were the work of ?naval mines almost certainly from Iran.? The UAE has not yet blamed anyone for the sabotage of four vessels, including two Saudi tankers, which was followed two days later by drone strikes ...
Bangladesh to charge 16 after girl burned to death
Bangladesh?s Police Bureau of Investigation said they would file the chargesheet in a court in the country?s south later on Wednesday against the 16 people who include two girls who were classmates of Rafi. Rafi had gone to police in late March to report the alleged sexual harassment against the teacher, and a leaked video shows the local police ...
With raids, warrants and an arrest, Mexico’s leader sends first big message on graft
A former Pena Nieto campaign chief who went on to run state oil firm Pemex, the country?s largest company, Emilio Lozoya was not home during the raid late on Tuesday night in the upscale Lomas neighborhood, his lawyer Javier Coello said in an interview with Milenio Television. The swoop for Lozoya, who ran Pemex from 2012 to 2016, and ...
Amnesty accuses Myanmar military of fresh ‘war crimes’ in Rakhine
Myanmar?s military is guilty of committing new ?war crimes?, extrajudicial killings and torture in its fight against ethnic Rakhine rebels, Amnesty International said Wednesday. Amnesty said Wednesday it had ?new evidence? that Myanmar?s military is now ?committing war crimes and other human rights violations? against the ethnic Rakhine, listing extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, torture and enforced disappearances. ?The new ...
Trump envoys Kushner, Greenblatt in Middle East to seek support for peace plan
Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner is leading a US delegation to the Middle East this week seeking support for a late June workshop aimed at helping the Palestinians, a White House official said on Tuesday. The official said one reason for this week?s trip is to bolster support for a June 25-26 conference in Manama, Bahrain, in which ...
UN proclaims international day to commemorate victims of violence based on religion or belief
UNITED NATIONS, May 29 (APP):The U.N. General Assembly has designated August 22 as the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, in response to an unprecedented rise of violence against religious communities and people belonging to religious minorities.
US Special Counsel, in first comments on Russia probe, declines to clear Trump
NEW YORK, May 29 (APP):U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday — in his first public statement regarding the investigation he led into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election — said if he had determined President Donald Trump didn’t commit a crime he “would have said so.” Mueller was referring to the portion of his investigation and report that ...
UK PM candidate Hancock says no-deal Brexit is not an option
Matt Hancock, one of the Conservative candidates vying for Prime Minister Theresa May’s job, said a no-deal Brexit was not an option for Britain’s next leader as the speaker of parliament would thwart it, the Financial Times reported. “The brutal reality is, no deal is not a policy choice available to the next prime minister,” Hancock, Britain’s 40-year-old health minister, ...
Facebook, Twitter delete fake accounts originating in Iran
Facebook and Twitter said on Tuesday that they have deleted fake accounts impersonating political candidates and journalists used as part of a pro-Iran social media campaign. The accounts were run by people who ?misled people about who they were and what they were doing,? the social media giant said in a statement written by Nathaniel Gleicher, its head of ...
Thai opposition urges rejection of pro-junta coalition
Negotiations are going on two months after the election No one party won a majority in the House of Representatives in the election, but Palang Pracharat has an advantage under junta-written electoral rules that require the 250-seat upper house Senate, appointed by the junta, to vote along with the 500-seat lower house for prime minister. The Democrats ? bitter opponents ...
Iran’s Rouhani suggests US talks possible if sanctions lifted
Trump said on Monday: ?I really believe that Iran would like to make a deal, and I think that?s very smart of them, and I think that?s a possibility to happen.? Rouhani said in remarks carried by state television: ?Whenever they lift the unjust sanctions and fulfill their commitments and return to the negotiations table, which they left themselves, the ...
Breaking religious barriers: Two Muslim, Hindu families swap kidneys, saves lives
Breaking the religious barriers, two Muslim and Hindu families swapped their kidneys and saved the lives Baramulla district of Indian occupied Kashmir (IOK) According to Indian media, a Hindu man donated his kidney to a Kashmiri Muslim, whose wife later donated her kidney to the Hindu donor?s wife. India Today reported that Abdul Aziz Nazar, a carpenter by profession and ...
