WASHINGTON: Almost 40 percent of new HIV cases in the US occur because people do not know they are infected, while a similar proportion know but are not in treatment, according to a study released Monday.The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is based on 2016 data and aims to bolster…
KURCHALOY, Russia: A court in Russia’s province of Chechnya on Monday sentenced a prominent rights activist to four years imprisonment on drug charges widely seen as an effort by authorities to stifle a critical voice.The court in the Chechen town of Shali found Oyub Titiyev guilty of drug possession and sent him to a prison…
HAVANA: The Trump administration’s move to end five-year visitor visas for Cubans has left residents of the island angry and frustrated that it will be even harder to see their relatives, shop, or undertake cultural and academic exchanges in the United States.The State Department on Friday said the measure, which became effective on Monday, was…
PARIS: A German government spokesman said on Monday that the street violence that rocked central Paris during weekend “yellow vest” protests was “terrifying.” “The outbreak of violence and destructive rage in Paris this past weekend was terrifying,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert. “It has nothing to do with peaceful, democratic protests and the German…
PARIS: A German government spokesman said on Monday that the street violence that rocked central Paris during weekend “yellow vest” protests was “terrifying.” “The outbreak of violence and destructive rage in Paris this past weekend was terrifying,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert. “It has nothing to do with peaceful, democratic protests and the German…
At least three dead in multiple shooting in Utrecht, police hunting Turkish-born man DUBAI: At least three people have been killed and five others injured in a shooting incident in Utrecht, in The Netherlands on Monday morning. Dutch security forces were hunting for a 37-year-old Turkish man in connection with the incident, in what authorities said appeared to…
At least three dead in multiple shooting in Utrecht, police hunting Turkish-born man DUBAI: At least three people have been killed and five others injured in a shooting incident in Utrecht, in The Netherlands on Monday morning. Dutch security forces were hunting for a 37-year-old Turkish man in connection with the incident, in what authorities said appeared to…
BEIJING: China has arrested nearly 13,000 people it describes as terrorists and has broken up hundreds of “terrorist gangs” in Xinjiang since 2014, the government said in a report Monday issued to counter criticism of internment camps and other oppressive security in the traditionally Islamic region. The lengthy report said the government’s efforts have curbed…
SENTANI: Flash floods in Indonesia’s eastern Papua province have killed at least 77 people, the disaster agency said Monday as it raised the death toll from 58. More than three dozen people remain missing, while scores have been injured in the disaster, triggered by torrential rain and landslides. “The death toll could still go up…
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Sixteen-year-old Kefayat Ullah walked to his school in southern Bangladesh in late January, as he had done most days for the previous six years, to find that — despite being one of the top students in his class — he had been expelled.A government investigation had outed him, along with dozens of…
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Sixteen-year-old Kefayat Ullah walked to his school in southern Bangladesh in late January, as he had done most days for the previous six years, to find that — despite being one of the top students in his class — he had been expelled.A government investigation had outed him, along with dozens of…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said flags would fly at half-mast on Monday, in solidarity with the families of victims of the attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday.New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called the shootings a terrorist attack. So far 50 people have died, nine of them Pakistanis,…
Christian’s post-New Zealand attack gesture for Muslim worshippers in Manchester goes viral LONDON: A Christian man in the UK has won the hearts of people across the globe after his gesture of protecting Muslim worshippers at a Manchester mosque went viral in the wake of the New Zealand terror attacks.Andrew Graystone told Manchester Evening News…
BAMAKO: Gunmen attacked and briefly seized a Malian army base overnight, killing at least 16 soldiers and destroying five vehicles in central Mali’s Mopti region, two local councilors in the area where the attack happened said on Sunday.The base is in the village of Dioura, the mayor of the nearest town Kareri, Youssouf Coulibaly, told…
New Zealanders pay tribute as terror attack victims’ families anxiously await return of dead CHRISTCHURCH: A steady stream of mourners paid tribute Sunday at a makeshift memorial to the 50 people slain by a gunman at two mosques in Christchurch, while dozens of Muslims stood by to bury the dead when authorities finally release the victims'…
JAKARTA: Around 35 foreign and domestic tourists are believed to be trapped and two others died after landslides hit a waterfall site on Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, a disaster agency official said.Two moderate earthquakes struck Lombok, triggering the landslides, when around 40 Malaysian and domestic tourists were visiting the Tiu Kelep waterfall,…
JAKARTA: Around 35 foreign and domestic tourists are believed to be trapped and two others died after landslides hit a waterfall site on Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, a disaster agency official said.Two moderate earthquakes struck Lombok, triggering the landslides, when around 40 Malaysian and domestic tourists were visiting the Tiu Kelep waterfall,…
ADDIS ABABA: An aircraft hangar in the Ethiopian capital was filled with the white roses as aviation staff gathered on Sunday to remember the two pilots and six crew, who perished along with 149 passengers in the Ethiopia Airlines crash a week ago.Weeping women held slender single stems in their shaking hands and banks of…
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand: A man whose 44-year-old wife was killed in the Christchurch mosque attack as she rushed back in to rescue him said he harbors no hatred toward the gunman, insisting forgiveness is the best path forward.“I would say to him ‘I love him as a person’,” Farid Ahmad told AFP.Asked if he forgave…
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand: A man whose 44-year-old wife was killed in the Christchurch mosque attack as she rushed back in to rescue him said he harbors no hatred toward the gunman, insisting forgiveness is the best path forward.“I would say to him ‘I love him as a person’,” Farid Ahmad told AFP.Asked if he forgave…
