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By: AFP | Kabul | Updated: October 14, 2015 4:33:18 pm The Taliban’s brief foray into the city of Kunduz offered a chilling reminder of its violent Islamic rule in the late 1990s, and of what could await the country if it returns to power. Within hours of seizing the northern Afghan city of Kunduz … Read more
Written by Divya Goyal | Ludhiana | Published: February 18, 2020 12:47:13 pm Kulwinder Singh A day after saying that the head constable, who shot dead four persons including his wife Sunday, was ‘issued’ an AK-47 rifle after he ‘lied’ that he had to go on a ‘raid with anti-drug Special Task Force’, the Moga … Read more
A 15-year-old in Texas is now the youngest person in the US to die of the vaping-linked illness that’s claimed the lives of a total of 57 people nationwide, officials said Thursday. As of Thursday, 2,602 people have been hospitalized with lung illnesses linked to e-cigarettes in every US state, the District of Columbia, Puerto … Read more
The US drug epidemic has likely claimed the lives of twice as many Americans as currently estimated, new research suggests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that there were 63,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016. But that estimate doesn’t include non-overdose deaths that have drugs at their root, like those from HIV, … Read more
Given the choice between a lifetime of headaches from a condition that could unexpectedly – but quickly – kill you, or brain surgery with a high risk of leaving half their body paralyzed, most people would hesitate to answer. But it gave Lindsay Vos, of Ann Arbor Michigan no pause. After an abnormal mass of … Read more
When Jaci Hermstad could barely lift her leg to get on her horse Bud in November last year, she knew that something was very wrong. She tried not to over-react, but in the back of her mind memories of when her identical twin sister Alex battled a rare childhood version of the neurological disease ALS … Read more