PakistanVibes

2020/6/2 19:43 (PKT)

Virus compounds Pakistan plane crash grief

Islamabad (AFP) - Gathered together via Zoom, friends and relatives of Wahida and Fazal Rahmaan watched from afar as the beloved couple were buried in Pakistan, days after they were killed in a plane crash.For many who lost loved ones in the May 22 tragedy, grief has been compounded by the coronavirus, which has made travel to funerals impossible and attendance dangerous.The Rahmaans, married 53 years, were among 97 people killed when the Pakistan International Airlines Airbus plummeted into a Karachi neighbourhood, killing all but two people on board."The most instinctual human response to gr...

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PakistanVibes

2020/6/2 19:20 (PKT)

Palestinian family mourns autistic son killed by Israel police

Jerusalem (AFP) - Iyad Hallak, a 32-year-old Palestinian man with autism, passed Israeli police every day to reach his special needs school in Jerusalem's Old City. Last week a police officer who believed Hallak was armed shot him dead, leaving his family searching for answers and igniting widespread grief and anger.Thousands of mourners massed for Hallak's funeral while the social media hashtag #PalestinianLivesMatter echoed the fury being seen at mass protests against police violence and racism in the United States.Hallak, brown-haired, well-built and with broad shoulders, cut an imposing f...

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PakistanVibes

2020/6/1 17:03 (PKT)

Coronavirus: The questions asked most often worldwide over three months

Over the past three months, the highest-trending question asked across the world regarding COVID-19 on Google Search was "What is coronavirus?"The following are the highest-trending queries asked worldwide in Google Search about COVID-19 over the past three months: What is coronavirus?The World Health Organization states that COVID-19 is "an infectious disease" which induces "mild to moderate respiratory illness." The virus that causes the disease is called SARS-CoV-2, or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.How many people have died from coronavirus?According to The New York Times,...

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PakistanVibes

2020/5/30 18:02 (PKT)

Clashes outside White House as US cities under curfew

Washington (AFP) - Police fired tear gas outside the White House late Sunday as anti-racism protestors again took to the streets to voice fury at police brutality, and major US cities were put under curfew to suppress rioting.With the Trump administration branding instigators of six nights of rioting as domestic terrorists, there were more confrontations between protestors and police and fresh outbreaks of looting.Violent clashes erupted repeatedly in a small park next to the White House, with authorities using tear gas, pepper spray and flash bang grenades to disperse crowds who lit several l...

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