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Chicago, May 31: Hundreds of people have pledged to boycott United Airlines after a Muslim passenger alleged discrimination due to Islamophobia over an unopened can of Diet Coke onboard the American airliner. Tahera Ahmad's Facebook post over the "clear" discrimination went almost immediately went viral yesterday. The Muslim chaplain at Chicago's Northwestern University was onboard a flight this

Tokyo, May 30: A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Japanese coast today, geologists said, shaking buildings in Tokyo and setting off car alarms. Despite the huge power of the quake, there was no risk of a tsunami, The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre reported. Residential buildings swayed for around a minute as the quake built in intensity at around 8.30pm (1130 GMT), an AFP correspondent

Kuala Lumpur, May 24: Malaysia today said it has found mass graves, feared to contain bodies of Bangladeshi and Rohingya migrants from Myanmar, near detention camps used by human traffickers on the border with Thailand, weeks after its police unearthed several bodies from similar shallow graves. The mass graves were found near 17 abandoned camps in Padang Besar area on the Thai side of the border

Guatemala, May 24: A 16-year-old girl was mercilessly beaten and burned to death by a group of vigilante mob in Guatemala. The incident reportedly took place in the village of Rio Bravo, near the capital Guatemala City. The video, which was uploaded on YouTube was viewed several times before it was finally removed. The anonymous girl, accused of killing a 68-year-old taxi driver, reportedly took a

Washington, May 18: At least nine people were killed and 18 injured in a shootout between rival biker gangs in Texas' Waco city on Sunday afternoon, police said on Monday. The shootout occurred in a parking lot between the Twin Peaks and Don Carlos restaurants shortly after noon, said local television station News Channel 25. All the dead - eight of whom died at the scene, the ninth in a local

Kabul, May 14: The Taliban on Thursday claimed responsibility for an attack during a concert at a Kabul guesthouse that left 14 people dead including four Indians and an American. "It was a suicide mission carried out by one of our mujaheddin from Logar. The attack was planned carefully to target the party in which important people and Americans were attending," the militants said in a statement

Karachi, May 13: At least 47 people were killed in Pakistan's Karachi on Wednesday when armed men entered a packed bus and opened fire. Reports suggest 25 men and 16 women have been killed. There were around 60 passengers, including children, on the bus. Witnesses say six men came on three motorbikes, entered the bus and fired indiscriminately for nearly 10 minutes. Most passengers were reportedly

London, May 12: Prime Minister David Cameron today promoted one of Britain's most prominent Indian-origin MPs Priti Patel by making her the new Employment Minister, as he continued to give finishing touches to his first all- Conservative Cabinet. Patel, who was re-elected from Witham in Essex with a big majority in the May 7 general election, will take charge as the new Employment Minister of

Kathmandu, May 13: A powerful earthquake jolted mountainous Nepal on Tuesday, killing at least 66 people, including 17 in India and one in Chinese Tibet, bringing down buildings and triggering landslide less than three weeks after a devastating temblor left a swathe of destruction in the Himalayan nation. Hundreds of terrified people rushed out of their homes and buildings toppled as the 7.3

Sydney, May 5: A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea today, sending frightened residents fleeing from their homes, but a threatened tsunami passed without incident, seismologists said. The quake struck 133 kilometres (83 miles) south-southwest of the town of Kokopo in the New Britain region at a depth of 63 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said, and was followed by a 5.9