As the family of slain Cambodian activist Kem Ley rebuild their lives in Australia, his youngest son, born just months after the assassination, acts as a human timepiece measuring the years since the five brothers lost their father. Kem Ley, a popular analyst and critic who dabbled in grassroots politics, was shot at point-blank range […]
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Dozens dead as heat wave grips Canada, US: police
At least 69 people in the Vancouver area have died in a record-smashing heat wave engulfing western Canada and the US Pacific Northwest, police said Tuesday. Most of the dead in the Vancouver suburbs of Burnaby and Surrey over the past 24 hours were elderly or people with underlying health conditions, the Royal Canadian Mounted […]
Qatari world 400m medallist Abdalelah Haroun dies aged 24
Qatari runner Abdalelah Haroun, who won a bronze medal at the 2017 world championships, died Saturday in a traffic incident, according to the Qatar Athletics Federation. He was 24. “Haroun died in a car accident in Doha,” the federation’s secretary general, Mohammed Issa al-Fadala, told AFP. “He was in a rehabilitation programme after recovering from […]
Two children die under train in Sukkur
In Sukkur a freight train crushed two children to death and injured two others. The tragic accident occurred on Monday. According to police, four children were grazing their cattle near Mando Dero railway station when the accident took place. The bodies of the deceased and those injured were shifted to a nearby hospital, the police […]
Politician Saghir Chughtai’s son alleges his father was murdered
PTI’s candidate for the upcoming elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Late) Sardar Saghir Khan Chugtai’s son Sardar Ahmed Khan Chugtai has alleged that his father’s death was no accident. While talking to the media Chugtai said, “My father was murdered. This was not an accident. My father was the only hope of Azad Kashmir’s […]
China shelves dozens of races after deadly ultramarathon
At least 60 marathons and cross-country races have been cancelled or postponed in China after 21 runners died when extreme weather hit an ultramarathon last weekend, state media said Thursday. Long-distance running is booming in China but concern is rising over poorly regulated races that have sprung up across the country. A 100-kilometre (60-mile) cross-country […]
US former lawmaker John Warner, Elizabeth Taylor ex, dies at 94
Former US lawmaker John Warner, who opposed George W. Bush’s Iraq troop surge and was once married to Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor, has died at the age of 94, reports said Wednesday. The long-time senator and former Navy secretary died Tuesday at home in Virginia, US media reported, citing his former chief of staff Susan […]
Man dies trapped inside dinosaur statue in Spain
A 40-year-old man died after becoming trapped inside a large statue of a dinosaur in a Barcelona suburb, Spanish police said Tuesday. It is not clear why the man went inside the decorative stegosaurus located outside a disused cinema in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, but there is no suspicion of foul play, said a spokeswoman […]
Mursi’s death in Cairo prison raises fears for other inmates
The children of high-profile Egyptian Islamists detained in the same prison as former President Mohamed Mursi before his sudden death last week say they fear for their parents’ health. Mursi, 67, died after collapsing during a court appearance at Cairo’s Tora prison complex, where he was moved after army chief-turned-President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi overthrew him […]
Sri Lanka president signs death penalty for four drugs convicts
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena said on Wednesday the government would press ahead with a controversial plan to reinsate the death penalty for drug-related offences. “I have already signed death penalty for four (convicts). It will be implemented soon and we have already decided the date as well,” Sirisena told reporters in Colombo, without elaborating […]