ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s two-billion-dollar LNG pipeline project has hit a snag with Washington slapping a set of sanctions on the Russian firm designated to work on the scheme. Earlier, Pakistan was unable to execute the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project because of sanctions slapped on Tehran by the United States and the European Union. The Russian government…
WASHINGTON: Hate crimes against Muslim Americans and mosques across the United States have tripled in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, with dozens occurring within just a month, according to new data. The spike includes assaults on hijab-wearing students; arsons and vandalism at mosques; and shootings and death threats at…
Web Desk: Billionaire Warren Buffett pitched his support behind Hillary Clinton during a campaign stop on Wednesday in Omaha, Nebraska, saying that he and the Democratic presidential candidate share a commitment to helping the less affluent. Introducing Clinton at the rally, Buffett recited statistics about how incomes for the wealthiest people in the U.S. have…
Most Americans describe themselves as very concerned about the threat of attacks from terrorists, but considerably fewer worry about a mass shooting taking place in the area where they live, according to the most recent New York Times/CBS News poll. Roughly three in five Americans said they were very worried about terrorists coming from abroad or…
WASHINGTON (Web Desk): As Barack Obama enters the last year of his second tenure as the president of United States, a latest survey has revealed that majority of Republicans still think that Obama is Muslim while many others also believe that he was not born in United States. According to Independent the supporters of presidential…
California (Web Desk): At least 12 people are believed to have been killed and eight others injured in a mass shooting at a center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, California. San Bernardino police are reportedly scouring the area for up to three white males dressed in military gear and ski masks who are…
A man shot a Muslim taxi driver in Pittsburgh after asking if he was Pakistani, in what local authorities are saying might be a hate crime. The driver, a 38-year-old Moroccan immigrant who moved to the United States some five years ago, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the passenger asked him where he was from…
Volkswagen of America sales dropped 24.7 percent in November compared to the same month in 2014, the automaker announced today. The drop, from 31,725 to 23,882 cars, is the latest blow in the ongoing disaster that is VW’s diesel scandal. “The November sales results reflect the impact of the recent stop-sale for all 2.0L 4-cylinder…
KABUL: An Afghan police official says that an explosion has struck a group of children who were playing on the outskirts of a provincial capital in the country’s north, killing three boys and wounding 12 children, four of them critically. Provincial police spokesman Jawed Basharat says the explosion took place on Tuesday at the outskirts…
Standing proud and symbolising freedom, Lady Liberty, one of the world’s most well-known statutes in New York was originally conceived as a Muslim peasant woman. In fact, the statue was to have stood at the approach to the Suez Canal instead of Staten Island in New York. So how did this All-American symbol of freedom…
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