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United Nations, Jun 22: India, which currently ranks as the second most populous country with 1.3 billion inhabitants, will surpass China's 1.4 billion citizens by 2024, the UN said in a report. The world's total population is expected to hit 9.8 billion by 2050 despite universal lower fertility rates,the report added. The world's population is now at least 7.6 billion, up from 7.4 billion last

Brussels, Jun 21: Belgian soldiers shot and killed a suspected “terrorist” bomber after an explosion rocked a central Brussels train station Tuesday in the latest attack to hit Europe. Witnesses said the suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) before setting off the blast, which triggered a small but intense ball of flames in the station hall. There were no other casualties apart from the

Washinton, Jun 20: The brutal murder of a teenage Muslim girl in the US state of Virginia has sparked outrage among Muslim communities across the country. Nabra Hassanen, 17, was kidnapped from near a mosque in northern Virginia and repeatedly hit with a baseball bat by a man named Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, on Sunday. Nabra died from blunt force trauma to the upper body. The girl was walking

Washington, Jun 20: A number of anti-nuclear weapons activists have been arrested in New York during a protest against Washington’s decision to boycott negotiations on a nuclear weapons ban treaty. The arrests were made after the activists chanting slogans such as "US join the talks, ban the bomb," blocked the entrances to the US mission to the United Nations. The protesters sat in front of the

Washington, Jun 20: Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea for nearly a year and a half, died Monday afternoon, his parents announced. Warmbier had been medically evacuated and returned to Cincinnati last week in a coma. "Unfortunately, the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was

Washington, Jun 19: The US military on Sunday shot down a Syrian Air Force fighter jet that bombed local forces aligned with the Americans in the fight against Daesh militants, an action that appeared to mark a new escalation of the conflict. The US had not shot down a Syrian regime aircraft before Sunday’s confrontation, said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman. While the US has said

London, Jun 19: A van ploughed into worshippers outside a mosque in London today, killing one person and injuring eight others in what Prime Minister Theresa May described as a "potential terrorist attack". The attack took place just after midnight outside the Muslim Welfare House, which houses a mosque, on the Seven Sisters Road in the northern part of the city, the Guardian reported. The site of

Washington, Jun 18: A 33-year-old Sikh convert was handcuffed and arrested in the US for carrying a kirpan after a customer at a grocery store called police. Harpreet Singh Khalsa, who was born as Justin Smith, has worn the ceremonial knife known as a kirpan every day since he converted to Sikhism nine years ago. Khalsa, who owns a catering business, was quoted by The Baltimore Sun as saying that

Cologne, Jun 18: Thousands of people, many of them Muslims, have staged a rally in the western German city of Cologne to voice their opposition to terrorism and extremism in the name of Islam. The protesters took to the streets in Cologne on Saturday as part of a “Peace March” to call on people worldwide to unite against terror. The march attracted 3,500 people by some estimates despite the fact

Tokyo, Jun 17: Seven Navy sailors were missing and at least two, including the captain, were injured after a US destroyer collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan before dawn Saturday, the US Navy and Japanese coast guard reported. Footage from the Japanese TV network NHK showed heavy damage to the mid-right side of the USS Fitzgerald and a person in a stretcher being lifted to a