The second black box of the crashed EgyptAir plane was retrieved, Egyptian investigators said on Friday. “Lethbridge John vessel, rented by the Egyptian government to take part in the search, has retrieved the second black box, flight data recorder of the crashed EgyptAir flight A320,” Xinhua news agency quoted the Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee […]
A US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) official said on Wednesday the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida was both hate crime and an act of terror. “This was an act of violence, born out of hate, that inflicted terror on an entire community,” said Ron Hopper, special FBI agent in charge of […]
The US Senate has passed its draft of the National Defence Authorisation Bill, including a provision to set up a new fund to reimburse Pakistan for its efforts in the war against terrorism. The Senate version authorised $800 million under a provision called the `Pakistan Security Enhancement Authorisation’, Dawn online reported on Thursday. It also […]
Brazil has confirmed 1,581 cases of microcephaly related to the Zika virus since October 2015, the Health Ministry announced. A total of 7,936 suspected cases of microcephaly were reported in the past nine months, 3,308 of which have been dismissed of its link to the virus and 3,047 remain under probe, the ministry said on […]
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday met the Dalai Lama privately at the White House, a session that sparked anger among Chinese officials who accuse the Tibetan spiritual leader of sponsoring a separatist movement. It was Obama’s fourth meeting with the Dalai Lama, CNN reported. Obama and the Dalai Lama met in the Map Room, […]
Drinking coffee at “normal” temperature would not increase your risk of contracting cancer, says a new report by the World Health Organisation’s cancer research arm. The WHO classified coffee as a possible carcinogen in 1991, for its potential link to bladder cancer. Based on a review of more than 1,000 studies, the International Agency for […]
Hillary Clinton won the final Democratic primary on Tuesday night as voters in Washington, D.C., delivered a resounding win to the party’s presumptive nominee, one week after she clinched the nomination. The contest marked the close of one of the longest primary fights in American history, Politico reported. Clinton’s rival Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders contested […]
The currently weak coal and gas prices will not stop record investment of nearly $7.8 trillion in the world renewable energy sector over the coming decades as the cost of generating clean energy drops, a report said on Tuesday. With renewables set to attract $7.8 trillion by 2040, the impact of cheap gas and coal […]
The presumptive Republican presidential candidate nominee Donald Trump on Monday banned The Washington Post’s reporters from covering his campaign events after it reported a few comments the New York billionaire made on US President Barack Obama and the mass shooting in Orlando city in Florida. The magnate revoked the press credentials of the “phony and […]
The father of the homophobic Orlando gunman, Omar Mateen who massacred at least 50 people at an LGBT nightclub, has condemned the atrocity committed by his son but said he believes it is for God to enact “punishment” against gay people. Seddique Mateen posted the video, which is in Dari, a variety of Persian language […]