The Russian Orthodox Church has rejected a last minute appeal to attend what was deemed as the first meeting of fellow church leaders since 787. Russia said it could not participate in the Holy and Great Council, on the Greek island of Crete, as not all churches will be present, BBC reported. The churches of […]
The man charged with the killing of British Labour MP Jo Cox on Saturday gave his name at Westminster Magistrates’ Court as “death to traitors, freedom for Britain”. Asked to give his name as he stood in the dock at the court in London, Thomas Mair said: “My name is death to traitors, freedom for […]
A heavily pregnant woman and her husband were killed with bullets to their heads in an apparent case of honour killing in the suburbs of Pakistan’s Punjab province. The dead, identified as Muhammad Shakil, 30, and Aqsa, 26, were allegedly killed for “honour” by the woman’s brother who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia. Shakil […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Saturday it supported the IAAF’s “strong stance against doping” following the athletics ruling body’s extension of Russia’s ban. “The IOC welcomes and supports the IAAF’s strong stance against doping. This is in line with the IOC’s long-held zero-tolerance policy. The IOC has taken note of the decision of […]
Police in Belgium have made 12 arrests in a huge anti-terror operation, following the deadly bomb attacks on capital Brussels in March. Those detained on Friday night are suspected of plotting a terrorist attack, prosecutors said on Saturday. They were among 40 taken in for questioning, BBC reported. Searches were conducted in 16 municipalities, mainly […]
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, […]