TUNIS: Protests and a general strike swept Tunisia Friday after gunmen killed an opposition head with the same gun used to kill a colleague, a minister said, as under-fire authorities pointed to Al-Qaeda links. Mohamed Brahmi was gunned down with the same weapon used to kill another opposition politician, Chokri Belaid, six months earlier, Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said. He said the main suspect in Brahmi’s killing was a member of the radical Sunni Muslim Salafist movement linked to Al-Qaeda. “The first elements of the investigation show the implication of Boubaker Hakim, a Salafist extremist,” he said a day after Brahmi was gunned down outside his home near Tunis by two gunmen on a motorcycle. The 30-year-old P...
July 27, 2013 at 1:50 am | News Desk
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain: Spanish police said Friday they have detained the driver of a speeding train that crashed in the nation’s deadliest rail disaster in decades, accusing him of criminal recklessness. The country was in mourning over Wednesday’s horrific tragedy, which police said had killed 78 people including foreigners and left many more injured. The 52-year-old driver faces criminal accusations including “recklessness” over the crash near the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela, said Jaime Iglesias, police chief in the northwestern Galicia region. The grey-haired driver, who reportedly boasted of his love for speed online, was detained Thursday in hospital where he had been under police surveil...
July 27, 2013 at 1:50 am | News Desk
WASHINGTON: United States and China will discuss Human Rights during the next session will be held in Kunming, China. (more…)
July 27, 2013 at 1:50 am | News Desk
ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that government is taking measures on war footing for resolving energy crisis and the promise to remove shortage of electricity will be fulfilled at any cost. (more…)
July 27, 2013 at 1:50 am | News Desk
ISLAMABAD: A group of 11 selected faculty members of National University of Modern Languages (NUML) will soon be leaving for University of North Texas (UNT) to attend a 40-day long UNT-NUML Research Fellowship program at UNT, America. It was announced during a ceremony where the four (4) male and seven (7) female faculty members of English Studies Department of NUML were handed over the tickets and health insurance cards by the Rector Maj Gen (R) Masood Hasan. Rector NUML Maj Gen (R) Maood Hasan along with DG Brig Azam Jamal and Prog Dr Masood Ashraf Raja is giving away the tickets to scholars to attend Research Fellowship at UNT Introducing about the program, Registrar (also the Project Director of NUML-UNT Partnership program from NUM...
July 26, 2013 at 2:00 am | News Desk
RIO DE JANEIRO: Pope Francis toured a Rio shantytown Thursday after receiving the keys to the city and blessing the Olympic flag, before meeting with throngs of young Catholics on Copacabana beach. Under pelting rain, the pontiff arrived aboard his white jeep at the Varginha favela, a community of 1,000 people which for decades was under the sway of narco-traffickers until it came under police control less than a year ago. Earlier, the Argentine-born pontiff, who is on a week-long visit to Brazil, received the keys to the city at a city hall ceremony attended by Mayor Eduardo Paes and state governor Sergio Cabral. The pontiff blessed hundreds of well-wishers, including many children, gathered in the city hall gardens. “Good morning ...
July 26, 2013 at 2:00 am | News Desk
SEOUL: Sixty years after the end of a war which killed millions and sealed the Korean peninsula’s division into communist North and capitalist South, the dream of reunification is fading in South Korea. After more than a thousand years as a united nation, the separate Koreas came into being in 1948 but went to war two years later when the North invaded. They have remained technically at war since the conflict ended on July 27, 1953, with an armistice but no peace treaty. Officially, at least, reunification remains the holy grail for both Seoul and Pyongyang. But sentiment in the prosperous South has continued to sour in recent years, as more people tire of regular threats from their impoverished neighbour and fret about the potentia...
July 26, 2013 at 2:00 am | News Desk
ISLAMABAD: In a battle of television rating during Ramadan, Pakistan prominent television Geo giving away abandoned babies to childless couples during its prime-time show. (more…)
July 26, 2013 at 2:00 am | News Desk
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain: Under the towering stone arches in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, hundreds of worshippers held a mournful mass on Thursday for the 78 people killed in the worst train crash of Spain’s recent history. Facing the high gold altar, they prayed to Saint James — the apostle who gives his name to the cathedral and the city — for those killed and the more than 140 injured in Wednesday evening’s devastating crash on the town’s outskirts. “Saint James, we ask you to keep protecting us always,” said one of the celebrants, before clerics in black and red robes and public officials in suits filed out grim-faced to sombre strains from the organ. The veneration of Saint J...
July 26, 2013 at 2:00 am | News Desk
SAN FRANCISCO: One of the leading technology giant in the world Appls has been releases new status update regarding developer system of the company. Apple also announced that the company has created status page to display the availability of company’s systems, currently down due to hacking attempt. Here is what Apple says in it’s recent system alert: “We apologize for the significant inconvenience caused by our developer website downtime. We’ve been working around the clock to overhaul our developer systems, update our server software, and rebuild our entire database. While we complete the work to bring our systems back online, we want to share the latest with you. We plan to roll out our updated system...
July 25, 2013 at 5:55 am | News Desk
ISLAMABAD: Twenty Five percent Pakistani believe that political talk shows on TV channels spread false news while 66% believe that they provide credible content. According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan, 66% Pakistanis believe that Pakistani political talk shows on TV channels provide credible information; 25% believe they spread false news. A nationally representative sample of men and women from across the four provinces was asked “In your opinion, do Pakistani political talk shows broadcasted on different TV channels provide credible information about various politics issues?” Responding to this, 66% said the information provided by talk shows was correct and 25% said they provided mis...
July 25, 2013 at 5:55 am | News Desk
LONDON: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II met her newborn great-grandson for the first time at Kensington Palace on Wednesday, before Prince William and his wife Kate took the baby to the comforts of the Middleton family home. The 87-year-old monarch spent just over half an hour at the palace in London where the young couple spent the first night after leaving hospital with the still-unnamed infant, who is third in line to the throne. The queen has said she is “thrilled” about the latest addition to the family, who will one day succeed her as head of state of Britain and monarch of 15 Commonwealth realms around the globe. A few hours later, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took the little prince to stay with his maternal gra...
July 25, 2013 at 5:55 am | News Desk
APARECIDA, Brazil: Pope Francis led Wednesday his first mass since returning to his native Latin America, warning the faithful against “ephemeral idols” like money and power at Brazil’s most revered shrine. (more…)
July 25, 2013 at 5:54 am | News Desk
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League N (PML-N) Punjab’s government has inked another Memorandum of Understanding with Chinese firm. According to TheNewsTribe’s correspondent from Pakistan’s second largest city Lahore, the MoU regarding construction of Western Loop of the Ring Road Lahore was signed between Punjab government and international Chinese company, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation. Chairman Ring Road Authority and Director Overseas Corporation of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation signed the document. Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, Provincial Minister for Housing, Chief Secretary, Chairman Planning & Development, Secretary Communication & Works, Director General L...
July 25, 2013 at 5:54 am | News Desk
SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Wednesday unveiled a slim, powerful new Nexus tablet computer, fielding a new Android-driven champion to challenge iPad maker Apple. The seven-inch tablet made by Taiwan-based Asus and bearing the Google Nexus brand is designed to be easily slipped into a pocket or handbag and allow easy access to rich online content or services. Nexus 7 is about two millimeters thinner and slightly narrower than its predecessor, which was released a year ago. “It actually makes a huge difference when holding it in one hand; it fits more easily in a purse or jacket,” Android vice president Hugo Barra said after pulling a new Nexus 7 from a rear pocket of his pants. Nexus 7 has a high-definition screen and speakers that...
July 25, 2013 at 1:07 am | News Desk
MOSCOW: US fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is still in the transit zone at a Moscow airport and his future plans are uncertain, a lawyer said after meeting him on Wednesday. “He is staying here… He is here in the transit zone” at Sheremetyevo airport, pro-Kremlin lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told reporters after meeting Snowden inside the area. His comments dashed expectations that Snowden, who last week applied for asylum in Russia would leave the airport Wednesday after reports said he would receive a document allowing him free movement. Kucherena denied that he had been given any such document that would allow him to leave the transit zone as an official asylum seeker “As of today, this document h...
July 25, 2013 at 1:07 am | News Desk
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