Wellington: The New Zealand Police said on Friday that it was probing death threats sent to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on social media. A Twitter post containing a photo of a gun and captioned “You are next” was sent to the Prime Minister earlier on Friday, The New Zealand Herald[Read More…]
Nanjing: Death toll has risen to 44 and 90 others were seriously injured after an explosion ripped through an industrial park on Thursday afternoon in Yancheng, east China’s Jiangsu Province, the rescue headquarters said on Friday. A total of 640 people are receiving medical treatment in hospitals. Among them, 32[Read More…]
San Francisco: Facing flak for failure to block the live broadcast of the New Zealand terrorist attack last week, Facebook on Thursday said that its Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools were not “perfect” to detect the horrific video. Vowing to improve its technology, the social networking giant, however, ruled out adding[Read More…]
London: The UK government’s website for petitions crashed on Thursday morning after over 600K signed plea to for article 50 to be revoked. The petition which was launched on Wednesday evening soon after Prime Minister Theresa May criticised MPs for not approving the Brexit deal. In less than a day,[Read More…]
Wellington: Military-style semi-automatics and assault rifles will be banned under stronger new gun laws announced by the New Zealand government on Thursday. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the gun law reforms at a press conference, New Zealand Herald reported. The government has banned the weapons less than a week after[Read More…]
Dubai: A security company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has fired and deported one of its employees for posting a comment on Facebook celebrating the terrorist attacks at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people lost their lives. “Over the weekend, a Transguard employee made inflammatory[Read More…]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Wednesday said that nation will observe two minutes of silence on Friday to mark one week since the deadly terror attack at two Christchurch mosques in which 50 people died. Ardern also announced that the Muslim call to prayer, Azaan, will be broadcasted nationally[Read More…]
Christchurch: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called for a global fight to root out racist right-wing ideology following last week’s deadly attack on two mosques here. Talking about the rise of right-wing nationalism she said: “This was an Australian citizen but that is not to say that we[Read More…]
Reportedly, the man has agreed that he has earlier made several similar smugglings
New York: Paris, Singapore and Hong Kong are most expensive cities in the world while Delhi, Chennai and Bengaluru are among the cheapest places to live, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2019 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey. The three top cities are tied at the top spot, CNN quoted[Read More…]
New Delhi: As many as 148 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse relating to personnel in peacekeeping and special political missions of the United Nations and 111 relating to non-UN related entities were reported in 2018 against 138 in 2017 and 165 in 2016. The UN Secretary-General’s report on “Special[Read More…]
Kevin Tsujihara, the chief executive of Warner Bros. studios division, has stepped down after accusations surfaced that he had pushed for a woman with whom he had a sexual relationship to be considered for roles in the company’s films and television shows. Tsujihara’s exit arrives less than two weeks after an extensively[Read More…]
Wellington: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday vowed that she will never mention the name of the lone gunman who carried out the March 15 Christchurch mosques massacre, in order to deprive him of the notoriety he was looking for. “I implore you: Speak the names of those[Read More…]
Wellington: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday said the country’s existing gun laws will be reformed within the next 10 days, adding that her Cabinet has “completely unified” in the decision that comes in the wake of the March 15 shootings that were carried out by a “lone[Read More…]
US President Donald Trump has said that he would be donating part of his annual presidential salary to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). On Monday, Trump posted a photo on Twitter of a cheque for $100,000 — one quarter of his annual $400,000 salary — made out to DHS,[Read More…]
New York: The US dollar fell against most major currencies ahead of a two-day US Federal Reserve meeting. In late New York trading on Monday, the euro increased to $1.1337 from $1.1320 in the previous session, and the British pound fell to $1.3251 from $1.3285 in the previous session, Xinhua[Read More…]
Utrecht: Police, including the anti-terror unit, have been deployed to the scene after the shooting incident that took place Utrecht. It remains unconfirmed about how many people have been injured in the shooting. While, the Dutch ANP news agency reported that at least one person was killed. Three rescue helicopters[Read More…]
Many people are calling on Facebook to release the engagement figures.
Dhaka: Bangladeshi authorities have arrested a senior member of football’s world governing body FIFA for allegedly defaming the country’s prime minister. Mahfuza Akhter Kiron, a FIFA Council member, was detained after she had said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was neglecting football, the BBC reported on Sunday. A defamation claim[Read More…]
After the horrific terror attack in two mosques of Christchurch, a teenager egged the Australian Senator Fraser Anning, who made Islamophobic remarks post the shooting. The teenager is being hailed by netizens for egging the senator. On Saturday, the incident took place in Melbourne when Senator Anning was addressing a[Read More…]
Islamabad: Three persons were killed and six others injured after a blast at a passenger train in Pakistan’s Balochistan area on Sunday, police said. District Police Officer Irfan Bashir said that suspected miscreants planted an improvised explosive device at the rail track to target the Jaffar Express, the Dawn reported.[Read More…]
As New Zealand is mourning the death of 49 people in one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in recent times, good samaritans are going above and beyond to stand in solidarity with the victims of the attack. Right from the Prime Minister to common people on the street, everyone has come out[Read More…]
Christchurch: The man charged for Friday’s twin mosque attacks in this New Zealand city is believed to have acted alone, police said on Sunday. Australian Brenton Tarrant, a self-described white supremacist, live-streamed the attack on Facebook, the BBC reported. Police Commissioner Mike Bush confirmed that the 28-year-old was the only[Read More…]
Auckland: New Zealand will ban semi-automatic rifles, Attorney-General David Parker said on Saturday and was greeted loudly by a crowd here on vigil after the horrific killing of 49 people in Christchurch shootings. Parker was meeting a vigil group at the Auckland’s Aotea Square a day after 49 people were[Read More…]
Christchurch: A day after 49 people were killed in the horrific Christchurch mosques shootings, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Saturday showed solidarity to the Muslim community, saying “this is not the New Zealand people know”. She made the remark during her 40-minute address at the Christchurch Canterbury Refugee Centre, where[Read More…]