Once dubbed ‘Kosovo’s Che Guevara’, Albin Kurti has led street riots, unleashed tear gas canisters in parliament and served time as a political prisoner. Today Kurti wears a slick suit and has rebranded himself as a social democrat as he dreams of becoming Prime Minister. The former student activist made his name on the streets, […]
Al Shabaab gunmen kill cleric, nine others at religious centre in Somalia — police
Al Shabaab gunmen and a suicide car bomber struck a religious centre in central Somalia on Monday, killing a cleric and at least nine of his followers, a police officer said. “The militants killed 10 people including the cleric, teenagers and women who lived inside the camp,” Police Major Abdirahman Abdullahi told Reuters by phone […]
NATO convenes emergency meeting
NATO called an emergency meeting with Ukraine on Monday, the Western military alliance said, after Russia opened fire and seized Ukrainian ships over the weekend near Crimea. NATO announced the meeting in a statement after the alliance’s head Jens Stoltenberg held a phone call with Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Monday “about developments in the […]
Home most dangerous place for women, UN study shows
More than half the women who were murdered worldwide last year were killed by their partners or family members, making home “the most dangerous place for a woman,” a new UN study said Sunday. In statistics released on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the United Nations Office on Drugs and […]
‘The Last Emperor’ director Bernardo Bertolucci dies in Rome
Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, whose 1972 movie ““Last Tango in Paris” shocked audiences with a notorious sex scene that came back to haunt him in his later years, died on Monday. Bertolucci, 77, died at his home in Rome after a long illness, his publicist said. He had been in bad health for years and […]
Men who eat lots of fruits, vegetables have less memory loss: study
Men who follow a healthful diet could be protecting their brains, according to a new study that tracked a large group of men for more than 2 decades. Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, MA, analyzed data from a study that had followed 27,842 men for 26 years. The […]
Indian forces martyr eight Kashmiris in IHK
SRINAGAR: Indian occupation forces martyred eight Kashmiri youth in Shopian district of Indian-held Kashmir on Sunday. The youth were martyred during a cordon and search operation jointly launched by Indian army’s 34-Rashtriya Rifles, Central Reserve Police Force and Special Operation Group at Batagund in the Kapran area of the district. A house was also destroyed […]
Shehbaz undergoes CT scan amid cancer reports
Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has undergone a computed tomography (CT) scan at a hospital in Islamabad, media reports said on Sunday. According to sources, the medical board constituted on order of the court had suggested CT scans of former Punjab chief minister. The board will analyse reports of the CT scans today. […]
Govt allows travellers to bring one cellphone a year to Pakistan duty-free
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Revenue Hammad Azhar Sunday announced that those travelling to Pakistan would be allowed to bring in only one cellphone per year free of Customs duty as per the personal baggage rules. In a series of tweets, the revenue minister that a maximum of five phones in a year could be […]
Woman police officer recalls attack ordeal
Suhai Aziz Talpur heard of the attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi while driving to work. She rushed to the scene to find two of her colleagues dead, and a trio of insurgents attempting to blow their way into the building. Her fast response and actions during the nearly two-hour assault on the diplomatic […]