Terming the recent anti-Muslim rhetoric in the US poll campaign as “inexcusable”, President Barack Obama has said the best way to fight terrorism is to show that the US does not suppress Islam
In his first visit to a mosque in the US, Obama on Wednesday referred to the recent political rhetoric against Muslims in the country, and said Americans cannot be silent bystanders to bigotry against any faith
Man jailed for severely abusing pet dog in NZ
Melbourne: A man in New Zealand has been jailed for four months for starving his dog so badly that it was reduced to "a skeleton covered with fur", media reports said on Thursday. Terepai Noel Teremoana of Auckland was sentenced at the Manukau District Court after he was found guilty of reckless ill-treatment of the animal. The dog, named Ben, was discovered with open, infected wounds. An animals’ inspector who found him said he looked like "a skeleton covered with fur". PTI
Italy demands probe into student's Egypt slaying
Rome: Italy on Thursday angrily demanded that Egypt authorise a joint investigation into the violent death of Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge University PhD student who mysteriously disappeared in Cairo last month. Regeni's corpse was found on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital on Wednesday, the foreign ministry in Rome confirmed after summoning Cairo's ambassador to express "the Italian government's bewilderment over the tragic death.” AFP
Cellphone towers’ energy may trigger pain in amputees
Washington: Cellphone towers and other technologies that emit electromagmetic fields may cause amputees to feel pain in their injured limbs, a new study has found for the first time. Until now there was no scientific evidence to back the stories of people who reported aberrant sensations and neuropathic pain around towers that produce radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs). PTI
Top al Qaeda commander ‘killed’ in Yemen drone strikes
ADEN: A suspected US drone strike has killed a top Islamist militant commander in southern Yemen who had run al Qaeda's combat operations and had a $5 million US bounty on his head, residents said. Jalal Baleedi, who may have recently defected from Al Qaeda to become the Islamic State's Yemen branch chief, was reportedly killed by a drone strike as he was travelling in a car with two others in coastal Abyan province. reuters
In his first visit to a mosque in the US, Obama on Wednesday referred to the recent political rhetoric against Muslims in the country, and said Americans cannot be silent bystanders to bigotry against any faith
Man jailed for severely abusing pet dog in NZ
Melbourne: A man in New Zealand has been jailed for four months for starving his dog so badly that it was reduced to "a skeleton covered with fur", media reports said on Thursday. Terepai Noel Teremoana of Auckland was sentenced at the Manukau District Court after he was found guilty of reckless ill-treatment of the animal. The dog, named Ben, was discovered with open, infected wounds. An animals’ inspector who found him said he looked like "a skeleton covered with fur". PTI
Italy demands probe into student's Egypt slaying
Rome: Italy on Thursday angrily demanded that Egypt authorise a joint investigation into the violent death of Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge University PhD student who mysteriously disappeared in Cairo last month. Regeni's corpse was found on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital on Wednesday, the foreign ministry in Rome confirmed after summoning Cairo's ambassador to express "the Italian government's bewilderment over the tragic death.” AFP
Cellphone towers’ energy may trigger pain in amputees
Washington: Cellphone towers and other technologies that emit electromagmetic fields may cause amputees to feel pain in their injured limbs, a new study has found for the first time. Until now there was no scientific evidence to back the stories of people who reported aberrant sensations and neuropathic pain around towers that produce radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs). PTI
Top al Qaeda commander ‘killed’ in Yemen drone strikes
ADEN: A suspected US drone strike has killed a top Islamist militant commander in southern Yemen who had run al Qaeda's combat operations and had a $5 million US bounty on his head, residents said. Jalal Baleedi, who may have recently defected from Al Qaeda to become the Islamic State's Yemen branch chief, was reportedly killed by a drone strike as he was travelling in a car with two others in coastal Abyan province. reuters
