LOS ANGELES (AFP) – US actress Anne Hathaway has become a first-time mother after giving birth to a baby boy, her spokesman told AFP Thursday. The Oscar-winning star delivered her first child, Jonathan Rosebanks Shulman, on March 24 in Los Angeles, according to celebrity news outlet E! Hathaway confirmed earlier ...
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Afridi made some blunders: Azhar Mahmood
LAHORE (Web Desk) – National cricket team’s bowling coach Azhar Mahmood on Thursday said that former Pakistani skipper Shahid Afridi committed some blunders in mega events, Dunya News reported. “Shahid Afridi was a changed man during the Asia Cup and World Twenty20 and he wanted to do things better. Unfortunately ...
Read More »A third of Iraqis believe US supports terrorism, Daesh: Report
One third of Iraqis believe that Washington supports terrorist groups, particularly Daesh Takfiri militants, in the Arab country, a US State Department report says. The report, which was based on a poll carried out from October to November 2015, said one out of three Iraqis believes “America supports terrorism in ...
Read More »Palestinians seek anti-Israel UN resolution: Sources
The Palestinian mission to the United Nations is circulating a Security Council draft resolution which condemns Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied territories. The mission said on Thursday that it had begun circulating the resolution among UN members and were discussing the text with a number of Arab countries. The Palestinians refused ...
Read More »Kurdish women: Words can’t express ordeal at Daesh hands
Kurdish women, who were captured and held by Takfiri Daesh terrorists in Iraq, have given horrific accounts of torture and cruelty. “It is impossible to express in words, everything that ISIS did with us,” Ikhlas Baago, a former prisoner of Daesh, said during a roundtable gathering in Moscow on Thursday. “What is ...
Read More »Israeli forces level new structures to ground across West Bank
Israeli military forces have demolished a number of Palestinian structures across the West Bank as tensions between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian protesters continue unabated in the occupied territories. On Thursday, Israeli troopers razed a car spray painting workshop in the central West Bank town of Ni’lin, located 17 kilometers (11 miles) west of Ramallah, leaving ...
Read More »Ex-US president clashes with African American protesters
Former US president Bill Clinton has confronted angry protesters of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement over a controversial bill he signed into law in the 90s. Clinton on Thursday bickered with protesters in Philadelphia, defending his 1994 crime bill which African Americans condemned as a measure that led to a ...
Read More »‘Fmr. House speaker Hastert sexually abused teen boys’
A new report reveals former US House speaker Dennis Hastert had sexually abused teenage boys at school in the 1970s. The Chicago Tribune report says at least four people have made what law enforcement sources described as credible allegations of sexual abuse against Hastert. The accusers are men and their allegations ...
Read More »US drone strikes kill 17 Afghan civilians: Paper
US airstrikes in Afghan province of Paktika have killed at least 17 civilians, local officials and elders say, rejecting official American and Afghan claims that only militants had been killed. They were killed during three drone strikes carried out by the US in the area of Nematabad on Wednesday, former Afghan senator Hajji Muhammad Hasan ...
Read More »South Sudan rebel leader to return to Juba on April 18
South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar says he will return to the capital Juba later this month to form a unity government with President Salva Kiir as part of their stalled peace deal. Kiir’s spokesman, Ateny Wek Ateny, said on Thursday that Machar’s return would be a significant step towards the ...
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