Month: August 2022

Author Salman Rushdie is still in a critical condition but "his usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact", his son says. Zafar Rushdie said his father had sustained life-changing injuries, but was able to speak to his family. Mr Rushdie, 75, was left severely injured after being stabbed on stage at an event in New York state. He has faced years of death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims see as blasphemous. The man charged over Friday's attack has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder. "Following the attack on Friday, my father remains Skechers Canada in critical condition in hospital receiving extensive ongoing medical treatment," Zafar Rushdie tweeted. The family were "extrem...

A 63-year-old man has been charged with firearm offences after firing shots inside Australia's Canberra airport on Sunday afternoon. Police said the man, from New South Wales, sat on seats in a check-in area before shooting a number times into the building's windows. No-one was injured in the incident, which sent passengers running in fear. Gun violence is rare in Australia, which has some of the toughest firearms laws in the world. The suspect was quickly detained, and a gun recovered, however police say his motives are still unclear. The capital's airport was evacuated as a precaution and On Running Shoes several flights were cancelled or rescheduled. Australian media reported that the suspect fired approximately five shot...

Covid-19 infection numbers have surged in the Marshall Islands, just days after the Pacific nation recorded its first local spread of the virus. In the capital city of Majuro, total cases have nearly doubled since Friday. These latest figures mean one in ten of the city's residents have been infected in recent days. On Sunday, Health Secretary Jack Niedenthal said about 75% of tests across the country were returning positive results. A number of Pacific islands had success with keeping coronavirus at bay early in the pandemic through stringent restrictions. The Marshall Islands, which has a population of 59,000,Justin Boots was one of the last nations in the world to be untouched by Covid-19, before two cases were identified in Oct...

In 1929, a young volunteer of the Indian National Congress party had a moment of epiphany. Nanik Motwane was watching the venerated national hero Mahatma Gandhi struggling to get himself heard at huge pro-Independence public meetings. The leader would be "going from platform to platform" at the same venue to "enable his weak voice to by heard by large numbers [of people]," Motwane recounted later. That's when the 27-year-old second-generation migrant businessman decided to find a way to "amplify the voice" of the leader so that "all who were anxious, more to hear than to see him, would be able to hear him clearly". Two years later, Motwane was ready with a public address system at the Congress party's session in Karachi - which is now bustling city in t...

At least five people were killed and 26 more injured in the blast on Sunday. Ecuador's interior minister said it was a "declaration of war" by criminal gangs against the government. The Andean country, which is used as a cocaine smuggling route from neighbouring Peru and Colombia, has seen a sharp rise in murders and gang-related crime recently. A state of emergency has been declared in Guayaquil, Ecuador's most populous city and an important trade hub. It is the fourth emergency to be declared in Ecuador since October because of gang violence. Eight houses and two cars were destroyed in the early morning blast, according to the National Risk and Emergency Management Service. Pictures Hoka Shoes Canada from the scene show the front of houses ...

Speaking in a rare public interview, Lt Gen Sir Jim Hockenhull also said he had been keeping a very close eye on Russia's potential use of nuclear weapons. On 23 February this year, Gen Hockenhull had been working late into the night. He cycled home at midnight, and went to bed at about 01:00. He got a phone call an hour later saying there had been some odd indicators of activity on the Ukrainian border, so he got back on his bicycle and returned to work. The confirmation came that Russia had indeed invaded its neighbour. Minutes later, and still in the early hours of the morning, he was briefing Britain's prime minister and defence secretary on the beginning of Europe's biggest armed conflict since World War Two. IMAGE SOURCE,SOPA IMA...