Photo: Medics and protestors move a serious wounded girl, who was shot in her head by Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel, into the treatment room of Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Friday, May 3, 2019. Gaza City, May 4 : Four Palestinians, including two Hamas militants, were killed in an Israeli airstrike and ...
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‘Miracle’: Plane crashes into Florida river, but no deaths
Photo: Authorities work at the scene of a plane in the water in Jacksonville, Fla., Friday, May 3, 2019. May 4 : A charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river at the end of a runway Friday night, though no critical injuries or deaths were reported, officials said. A Boeing ...
Read More »Japan’s emperor greets public for 1st time since succession
Photo: Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito, left, waves with Empress Masako, right, to well-wishers from the balcony during his first public appearance with his imperial families at Imperial Palace Saturday, May 4, 2019, in Tokyo. Tokyo, May 4 : Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has greeted the public for the first time since his succession, expressing hope for Japan to keep pursuing peace. ...
Read More »Facebook considering its own bitcoin for payments
Photo: The logo for social media giant Facebook, appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York’s Times Square. San Francisco, May 4 : The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook plans a cryptocurrency-based payment system that it could launch for billions of users worldwide. The system would use a digital coin similar to bitcoin, but different in that ...
Read More »‘British Isis bride Shamima could be hanged in Bangladesh’
Isis bride Shamima Begum. File photo London, May 3 : Isis bride Shamima Begum could be hanged for terrorism offences if she comes to Bangladesh, reports British daily The Independent quoting Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen. Nineteen-year-old Shamima who left the UK to join Isis in Syria in 2015 was stripped of her British citizenship by the home secretary, ...
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