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‘Misery & deaths’: Death toll skyrocketing as snowstorms and landslides continue to batter Pakistan PM Khan has called for immediate assistance to be provided to Pakistan-administrated Kashmir, which is the most affected as severe winter weather continues to grip the country. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan tweeted that he has asked for immediate humanitarian assistance to be provided to those suffering in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, as snowfalls and landslides have caused “misery & deaths” there. The severe snowfalls and landslides in AJK have caused misery & deaths. I have asked the NDMA, the military & all our federal ministers to immediately provide all humanitarian assistance on an emergency footing to the affe...

'P*ss off!': Indian city installs ‘mirror boards’ urging residents to reflect on public urination (PHOTOS) Officials in India’s southern city of Bengaluru have launched a new campaign to shame public urinators out of the act, installing reflective billboards at popular make-shift “urinals” across the town to discourage the nasty habit. The mirrors were installed at five locations around the city this week after numerous fines and other penalties failed to put an end to the spectacle. In addition to a stern message warning whizzers to hold it while in public, the reflective signs also direct those in need to the nearest restroom using a scannable QR code. “We found that despite repeated cleaning of those spots they continued to be used as urinals by ...

‘Step up to the plate!’: Trump says Apple won’t unlock devices used by ‘criminals & drug dealers’ in Pensacola shooter phone row US President Donald Trump has demanded that Apple help federal agencies break into a pair of devices linked to the Pensacola shooter, accusing the company of not doing enough to assist investigators. In a tweet on Tuesday, Trump implied that the tech giant has been ungrateful to his administration, which he said is “helping [it] all of the time on TRADE,” calling on Apple to unlock two devices that belonged to the Saudi trainee who killed four at a US naval base in Florida in December. “We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so many other issues, and yet they refuse to unlock phones used by killers, drug dea...

India to invite Pakistan’s Khan for autumn SCO meeting in New Delhi – report India is reportedly poised to invite Pakistani PM Imran Khan to an annual Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit – hosted in New Delhi this year – where the block’s leaders will sit down for a rare face-to-face encounter. The SCO, the world’s largest multinational defense alliance, will convene for its yearly Heads of Government meeting in the Indian capital later this year, the first such gathering hosted by India, a relative newcomer to the organization. Despite ongoing tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, however, New Delhi looks forward to welcoming Khan, and the ball is apparently now in Islamabad’s court, at least according to Indian officials ci...

US ‘escalation in the region’ partly to blame for Iran shooting down Ukrainian passenger plane – Trudeau If it weren’t for US escalation in the Middle East, the Canadians who were on board the Ukrainian jet downed mistakenly by Iran would’ve been home now, Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau said. Trudeau’s interview with Global News was the first time he spoke about the fallout of the January 8 tragedy, in which the lives of 176 people, including 63 Canadian citizens, were lost. //www.youtube.com/embed/Kf-jH65vh64 When asked whether those who died on Flight 752 – which was shot down en route to Kiev moments after departing from Tehran’s major airport – were ‘collateral damage’ in the struggle between the US an...