The Afghan city of Kunduz has come under attack from the Taliban. A coordinated assault has been launched from four directions and they have gained entry into the city, according to the latest update by Reuters. Sheer Ali Kamal, commander of the 808 Tandar police zone in Kunduz, said, “We[Read More…]
Apple is renowned for its stellar customer service, but not everyone gets what they want at the Apple store. One French customer was filmed smashing display iPhones and other products at a store in Dijon after being refused a refund. The disgruntled Apple customer does explain that Apple refused to[Read More…]
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would ‘be happy’ to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers in the country. “Hitler massacred three million Jews. Now there is three million, what is it, three million drug addicts (in[Read More…]
There have been number of stories of barbaric acts performed by ISIS terrorists in Iraq. The world has seen many of those viral videos where ISIS terrorists were seen beheading civilians. With every breaking news ISIS has been touching new heights of brutality. Now there is this Iraqi woman named[Read More…]
In yet another setback to Pakistan, Sri Lanka on Thursday pulled out of 19th SAARC Summit in Islamabad, becoming the fifth country to do so after India expressed its inability to participate in the summit. “Sri Lanka regrets that the prevailing environment in the region is not conducive for holding[Read More…]
Warning of “disastrous consequences” Saudi Arabia on Thursday reprimanded the US law allowing 9/11 victims to sue the kingdom. The bill is expected to escalate the tensions between the longstanding allies. On Wednesday, the US Congress voted in complete majority to override President Barack Obama’s veto of the Justice Against[Read More…]
Amid high tension between India and Pakistan in the backdrop of surgical strikes carried out by India at LoC on Wednesday, Pakistani comedian Shehzad Ghias Shaikh wrote a hilarious piece mind on why India and Pakistan should not go to war against each other. His post is a much needed[Read More…]
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday at a CNN presidential town hall, said that ‘Islamic terrorism’ is a sort of manufactured term and added that terrorist organisations like Al Qaeda or ISIL have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse for basically barbarism and[Read More…]
Dan Brown, the author of Da Vinci Code has announced that his next Robert Langdon thriller entitled ‘Origin’ will be released in the UK on September 26, 2017, priced at £20. It will also be available as an e-book and an audio book. The publisher said it would be featuring[Read More…]
According to China’s state-run news agency, at least 33 people are missing after rains from Typhoon Megi triggered landslides in two villages in China’s eastern Zhejiang province on Wednesday. Twenty seven of the victims are from Sucun village where homes were swept away, the other six were from Baofeng village.[Read More…]
A day after India announced its decision of not attending the 19th SAARC summit in Islamabad in November, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan have also pulled out of the summit. All the three countries blame Pakistan for the current atmosphere of terror and held that it was not fit for hosting[Read More…]
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton took a dig at Donald Trump saying the race to the White House is real business and not “reality TV”. “This is not reality TV. This is real. It’s as real as it gets. So we’re going to get the economy working for everybody, not[Read More…]
Pushing calls towards global isolation of Pakistan, Bangladesh has said the United Nations should declare Pakistan a “terrorist state” underlining India’s argument that Islamabad should be isolated in the global community as a nation that exports terror to rest of world. “For the first time in the history of SAARC,[Read More…]
In yet another setback for Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan on Wednesday pulled out of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) Summit in Islamabad. Bangladesh said it was unable to participate in the summit because of “growing interference in internal affairs of Bangladesh by one country”. News reports[Read More…]
Customs officers at an Austrian airport were left shocked after pulling over a suspicious looking passenger and discovered she was carrying her dead husband’s intestines. The woman who was travelling from Morocco to Graz airport in Austria was carrying body parts of her dead husband, said officials. She had kept[Read More…]
An Indian-origin lawyer named Nathan Desai who was apparently sporting Nazi symbol shot at 9 people in US’ Houston city, before he was killed by police. All victims have thankfully survived but one person was critically wounded and five others have been hospitalised. The police said that Desai was having[Read More…]
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the first presidential debate, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. The poll of debate watchers put Clinton at 62 per cent while Republican rival Donald Trump lost by 27 per cent in Monday night’s debate held at the Hofstra University, New York. During the debate[Read More…]
In July, French authorities had asked their Swiss counterparts to provide client information of banking giant UBS for international administrative assistance in May, reports French daily Le Parisien. The demand concerns former and current clients living in France, based on data from 2006 to 2008. Le Parisien on Monday published[Read More…]
The UAE has updated its Federal Medical Liability Law, according to which sex change and cloning are now prohibited in the country. Penalties for violations incurred by doctors include imprisonment starting from four years up to 10 years and/or a fine starting from Dh10,000 and going up to Dh500,000. The[Read More…]
A petition demanding the ban on exporting electronic voting machines and biometric machines from India has been filed in the Lahore high court. Advocate Azhar Siddique has filed a writ petition on behalf of a citizen, and said the Pakistan Election Commission (ECP) opened bidding to acquire the electronic voting[Read More…]
At least three people were killed and an unknown number wounded late on Friday during a shooting at a mall in the state of Washington, with the suspect still on the run, police said. Washington State Patrol District 7 spokesman Sergeant Mark Francis described the suspect in the shooting at[Read More…]
North Korea’s foreign minister has told the United Nations that “going nuclear” is his country’s only way to defend itself and vowed to further bolster its nuclear military forces. Speaking to the General Assembly, Ri Yong-ho on Friday said his country will “continue to take measures to strengthen its national[Read More…]
Yahoo on Thursday reported the largest data breach in history which will affect at least 500 million user accounts. Being cited as one of the largest, the web giant called on customers to change their passwords and institute other protective measures. This breach can have huge negative impacts on the[Read More…]
Cyber thieves who don’t face drought of new ideas to exploit people on cyber space have now come up with a new ‘educational grant’ phishing mail scam. According financial website Money Saving Expert cyber thieves are targeting students from renowned universities and luring them into revealing sensitive bank details. For instance,[Read More…]
Britain’s foreign intelligence service MI6 is going to recruit around 1000 spies. This will be one of the biggest expansions since the Cold War as MI6 seeks to harness new technology. MI6 will see its numbers increase around 3,500 by 2020 from around 2,500. MI6 which does not disclose its[Read More…]