An Egyptian woman, who is believed to be the world’s heaviest woman, will be flown to India for weight reduction surgery after an Indian doctor agreed to operate on her free of cost. The woman, identified as 36-year-old Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, weighs a whopping 500 kilograms and has remained confined to her bed […]
Dec 10 2016 | Posted in
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A Central Investigation Agency (CIA) report is making rounds these days which claims that Russia intervened in the 2016 US Presidential elections to help President-elect Donald Trump get to the Oval Office. The report claims that this was done not only to undermine the confidence in the US electoral system, but also for Russia’s personal […]
Dec 10 2016 | Posted in
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People of different faiths and ethnicities are being targeted across America by white supremacists ever since Donald Trump became the elected president of the United States. Even though such hate crimes were prevalent even before Trump’s win, they have been incited because of his stance on such matters. On Sunday, a serving New York police […]
Dec 7 2016 | Posted in
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A powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian Island of Sumatra on Wednesday morning as most people were getting up for their morning prayers. According to the details provided, the earthquake measured 6.5 on the Richter scale but because it was closer to the surface of the earth, the intensity was more. The earthquake struck Indonesia’s Aceh […]
Dec 7 2016 | Posted in
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Documents released on Friday night dealing with the US presidential guidelines for drone strikes permits the head of an agency to order an attack on a terrorist target in a foreign land without acquiring the president’s approval. In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Presidential […]
Aug 8 2016 | Posted in
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A father of a Muslim American soldier who died in Iraq laid a question before Donald Trump: Have you read the Constitution? At the Democratic convention in Philadelphia on Thursday, to loud ovations, Pakistan-born Khizr Khan strongly blasted the billionaire businessman, claiming that if Trump were left to his devices, his son would never have […]
Jul 29 2016 | Posted in
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A 27-year-old Syrian man who was denied asylum in Germany a year ago, died on Sunday when he detonated a bomb outside a crowded music festival in Bavaria, making it the fourth violent attack in Germany within a week, according to a senior Bavarian state official. Police stated that 12 people were injured, including three […]
Jul 25 2016 | Posted in
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Friday that he will be steeping down from office by October when Britons voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, disregarding his pleas not to. In a statement issued just outside his Downing Street office in London, the PM said, “I do not think it would […]
Jun 27 2016 | Posted in
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As it is common worldwide, especially in America, Omar Mateen had several unremarkable jobs which he worked during and following high school including a job at a Publix grocery store, Circuit City, Chick-Fil-A and Walgreens. Graduating in 2003, he skipped through various jobs pertaining to nutrition and health, including working at Nutrition World, Gold’s Gym […]
Jun 14 2016 | Posted in
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On Monday, Republican Donald Trump ascribed responsibility for a mass shooting in Florida purely on radical Muslims, who he claimed were entering the country through a flock of refugees and “trying to take over our children.” He mentioned the fact that the Florida gunman’s parents were born in Afghanistan. Highlighting major incidents in US history […]
Jun 14 2016 | Posted in
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The decision to temporarily remove the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen from a blacklist by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon came as a result of “undue pressure” from its supporters who threatened to desist from funding various programmes under way by the global organization. The decision was described by Ban Ki-Moon as “painful and difficult” and that […]
Jun 10 2016 | Posted in
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On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal revealed that emails between US diplomats in Islamabad and State Department officials in Washington which were about US drone strikes in Pakistan and whether to oppose particular strikes are currently the focus of a criminal investigation linked with Hillary Clinton’s management of classified information. The journal reported that the […]