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Facebook and Google reportedly promoted false news stories claiming that the Las Vegas shooter was a Democrat who opposed US President Donald Trump, on Monday. The misidentification spread rapidly from corners of the internet to mainstream platforms just hours after hundreds were injured at a festival near the Mandalay Bay casino, the latest example of fake news …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelDays after Saudi Arabia allowed women to drive, the kingdom has in a landmark move also allowed female students to enter university and college campuses with their mobile phones. Education Minister Ahmad Al Eisa has also told heads of universities and colleges not to prevent the students from using them inside the facilities, Gulf News …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelMOSCOW: US officials broke into residences at Russia’s consulate in San Francisco, the foreign ministry in Moscow said, threatening retaliation over what it called a hostile and illegal act. Russian staff had left the consulate last month, after Washington ordered Moscow to vacate some of its diplomatic properties, part of a series of tit-for-tat actions during …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelThe behaviour of migratory birds was found to be affected by the two blue beams of light projected in the sky to commemorate the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001. Scientists from the University of Oxford, Cornell Lab of Ornithology and New York City Audubon monitored migrant bird behaviour over seven …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelIt is no secret that Bollywood has had its fair share of deaths in the last couple of decades. While most have had their reasons, others were pretty inexplicable. Compiled by Cosmopolitan, here are eight celebrities who died mysteriously. 1. Jiah Khan Jiah created a buzz and a half in the Indian film industry with …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelKARACHI: Rights activists in Karachi have decided to surrender themselves to police over the issue of Shia missing persons and start a “Jail Bharo Tehreek” {Fill the Jails Movement) from October 6. The decision was made after Shia activists staged a protest on Ashura at MA Jinnah Road against state authorities, which have so far failed …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelDeep within the recesses of Karachi’s Metroville colony, women leave their homes at different times of the day and walk into a building a few paces away. There, they are awaited by a cluster of sewing machines, swathes of fabric and sewing samples. The women get to work, bringing the fabric to life in the …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelNAIROBI: Campuses at one of Kenya’s largest universities were closed on Tuesday after demonstrations broke out ahead of the country’s tense presidential election re-run, a university official said. Students at the University of Nairobi were ordered to vacate their dormitories on short notice after overnight protests that went into Tuesday morning, corporate affairs director John Orindi …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelSINGAPORE: Widening inequality in Asia’s teeming cities could lead to potentially risky social divisions, the World Bank warned Tuesday, urging governments to do more to help the urban poor. Relationship between development and inequality Half of the region’s population live in cities and rapid urbanisation has helped lift 655 million people out of poverty, the bank …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelBEIRUT: The Islamic State (IS) group on Tuesday claimed a bomb attack at a police station in the Syrian capital Damascus a day earlier that killed at least 17 people. In a statement circulated on its social media accounts, the group said three of its militants armed with guns, grenades and explosives were involved in the …
October 3, 2017 | by Raheel