In Bahawalpur a “forced abortion” led to the death of a 21-year-old expecting mother, who was allegedly raped, police said on Friday. According to police, the incident took place in Bahawalpur’s Ahmadpur East Tehsil. Woman’s family alleged The woman’s family has alleged that their daughter was raped for five months by a man “pretending to […]
The brazen killing of a Toronto-area mosque caretaker points to rising of far-right groups in Canada, experts say. Canadians in Toronto gather around a local mosque to show solidarity with the victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks in New Zealand. Toronto in Canada Mohamed Aslim Zafis was sitting outside a mosque in Toronto’s west end […]
India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday. It is only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil. Total deaths rose to 100,842, the health ministry said. While the tally of infections climbed to 6.47 million after a daily increase in […]
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump is in a military hospital today for treatment after testing positive for COVID-19. This is an extraordinary development that upended the presidential race a month before the Nov. 3 election. Roughly 17 hours after he made his diagnosis public, Trump walked slowly from the White House to a waiting helicopter […]
On Tuesday, Pakistan called on the Indian Charge d’Affaires to register a strong protest over LOC ceasefire violations by Indian occupying forces along the Line of Control (LoC). The firing resulted in the martyrdom of one and serious injuries to four innocent civilians. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) issued a statement. It said the […]
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health recognized a Pakistani doctor for his services as a team leader in the Kingdom’s fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. “In recognition of my services, I received a leadership award and an appreciation certificate by the Saudi health ministry,” Dr. Shahzad Ahmad Mumtaz said in an interview on phone […]
Australia’s Dreamworld theme park has been fined A$3.6m (£2m; $2.5m) over the deaths of four people on a malfunctioning water ride. Kate Goodchild, Luke Dorsett, Roozbeh Araghi, and Cindy Low died in October 2016 when their raft crashed and overturned, crushing them. Four victims (all adults) died almost instantly after the Thunder River Rapids Ride […]
Violence flares up in Nagorno-Karabakh, with militaries from both sides accusing each other for the major escalation. Armenia has declared martial law. Armeniaordered its military to mobilise after a major flare-up in violence with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Heavy fighting between the two arch-foes broke out on Sunday. They blamed each other for […]
Residents of Lake Jackson, Texas, have been warned about using tap water after a deadly brain-eating microbe was found in the city’s public water supply. Tests confirmed the presence of Naegleria fowleri in the system. The amoeba can cause an infection of the brain, which is usually fatal. Infections are rare in the US, with […]
A man suspected of injuring two people with a meat cleaver in Paris. He has admitted to deliberately targeting the former offices of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine. The suspect reportedly linked his actions to the magazine’s recent republication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Charlie Hebdo did this as a trial over the 2015 […]
