People who jumped in the fight against the tax to WhatsApp. Lebanon

There is no doubt that the WhatsApp processor is the only processor used by millions of users worldwide. Introduced as a free messaging platform, the WhatsApp processor currently offers a number of services.

WhatsApp Service:

WhatsApp provides many services such as voice calling, video calling service, group chat service, especially for sharing photos and videos. The Payment Service will soon be rolled out like Google Pay in the WhatsApp processor.

2 billion Video Call:

An estimated 2 billion video calls are used per day on the WhatsApp processor. The Lebanese people have jumped into action as the video calling service is taxed

Mandatory Tax:

The Lebanese government has imposed a tax on video calling services used in its country. The state government has implemented a mandatory tax code for processors, such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Apple's FaceTime

Do you know the value of the line ?:

According to Indian calculation, the tax levied by the government is Rs. The people took to the streets in protest against the government that the tax was unnecessary. Riots broke out between civilians and police as they tried to contain the struggle.

Government Announcement:

The Lebanese government has canceled the line for video calling services as people continue to struggle. It is noteworthy that the people abandoned their struggle only after the announcement of the government.

Female journalist accused of having sex before marriage

Rabat: A woman journalist accused of having sex before marriage has been released from prison today after a Moroccan king pardoned her. In Morocco, premarital sex is a legal punishable offense. Raisavani, a female journalist from the country, was arrested on August 31 on a complaint of illegal abortion while walking out of a clinic.


King Mohammed VI pardoned :

Raizawani, who said that the man who had sex was her boyfriend and that he would soon marry her. Government sources also said that Raisawani had escaped from the prison due to the pardon. In a statement released by the Ministry of Justice, Hajar Raizawani (28) works in the Arabic-language newspaper, Akbar al-Yawm. she was arrested on August 31 on a charge of unlawful abortion while leaving a clinic in Rabat.


She denied having an abortion in court. She said she was treated for internal bleeding. She was also supported by a gynecologist. But after medical tests she discovered she had an abortion. Raizawani, who was accused of having sex before marriage and her accomplices for illegal abortion, was jailed on September 30.


Protests erupted in the face of fierce opposition from human rights activists over the imprisonment. After almost a month and a half of struggle, the king of Sudan pardoned them after it became clear that Raisavani and her friend were about to have a legal marriage. Following this, journalist Raizawani's sentence to her fianc,, gynecologist, anesthesiologist and paramedic was canceled, the Justice Ministry said. Commenting on this, Raisavani condemned the affair as a political retaliation. She said she was questioned by police about her family and her own writing.

637 Kurdish fighters killed in Turkey attack

Istanbul: The Kurdish People's Defense Force (MNS) is defending the Kurdish population in the northern part of Syria. IS in Syria A group of Kurdish militants fought alongside US forces and Syrian rebel forces to eradicate terrorists.
Also, the captured IS. The terrorists have been incarcerated in Kurdish-controlled jails.


This group of militants formed the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Syria with the intention of forming a separate country and carrying out regular attacks on Turkey from the country's borders. Turkish Chancellor Ta'eb Erdogan, who does not want this separate country, aims to dismantle the workers' party in their country and in Syria.

Meanwhile, President Trump has said he is withdrawing US troops deployed in Syria's northern security forces. Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has announced the withdrawal of US troops, about 32 km from the Syrian border. He created a safety net and planned to resettle the refugees in their country.

Therefore, Turkey has entered the borders of Syria since the 9th of September under the name of the Peace Spring Parade, and has launched a fierce attack on the Kurdish population by land and air. Millions of Kurdish people are fleeing their homes as a result of the attack by the President of Turkey and the country's attack on Syria. In the meantime, 637 Kurdish militants have been killed in a military offensive in the northern part of Syria, the Turkish military said.

Meanwhile, Syrian state forces have rushed to the border in retaliation for Turkey's attack on the Kurds, who have crossed into their territory. This is causing tensions between Syria and Turkey. Kurdish forces have accused the Turkish government of using weapons banned by world governments in Syria's north

Saudi Arabian bus gets accident

Riyadh: A group of 35 foreigners on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia have died in a tragic accident. A private bus in Saudi Arabia was carrying foreigners on a pilgrimage to Medina. When the bus near Medina city accidentally crashed into a heavy vehicle. The accident killed 35 foreigners on the bus.

Also, 4 people were injured. The informed police rushed there. The injured were rushed to the hospital. The cause of the accident is being investigated. The crash victims were from Arab and Asian countries. The central government is investigating whether there are Indians.

Hajibis storm surge rises to 56

                       Tokyo:

The number of people killed in the Hajibis storm in Japan has risen to 56. The Hajibis storm hit Japan's capital Tokyo and surrounding areas last Saturday. As a result of heavy rains, 14 rivers, including Siguma and Tama, run through the water hazard phase. More than 14,000 homes were inundated by floods. Firefighters, Army and Disaster Rescue Squadron are working by helicopter and boat. The Hajibis storm claimed 19 lives as of yesterday. The storm reportedly killed 56 people and left more than 15 missing

4 killed in China chemical plant accident, 3 killed

                   Beijing:

 Four people were killed and three injured after an explosion at a privately owned chemical plant in China. A privately owned chemical plant operates in Yulin, Guangxi Zhuang, an autonomous region located in southern China. A large number of workers were engaged in routine work here. There was a sudden explosion inside the plant. This was followed by a fire in various parts of the plant.

This caused the workers to run out of the factory, screaming. However some workers were trapped inside. Following this, informed firefighters and rescue teams rushed to the scene. They were then involved in intensive recovery. However, 4 people were rescued in the dead. Three others have been rescued with severe burns and are being treated at a nearby hospital.

In recent years, China's Tianjin harbor in 2015 has killed more than 160 people and injured nearly a thousand

6 teenagers in the Netherlands cellar for 9 years

               Netherlands:

Police have rescued six teenagers and their father, who had been locked up in the cellar of a farmhouse in the Netherlands for about 9 years. A young man with a different look at a bar in the country's Roonerwold village. When the bar owner inquired of him, the young man was in a state of intoxication when they questioned him. According to information provided by the owner of the bar, the police conducted an intensive investigation. They were shocked to see that there was a cellar in the farmhouse that the youth had said.

The police then went and rescued six people, including an elderly man and a youth who had been confined in a cellar, to be treated at a nearby hospital. Following this, the police claimed that they had crops that had resulted in farms and had been out of contact with the world for nine years. A 58-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident. But was he the one who kept those people? The police declined to comment

14 police officers killed in Mexico bomb attack

                    Mexico:

At least 14 police officers killed in Mexico bomb attack Drug trafficking is reported to be a hotbed in the Aguila city of Mexico's Mizogan state. The police are taking serious action to control the drug trafficking gang. As usual, police patrolled the Akuvila Nagar area. 18 patrols of 2 vehicles were on patrol.

As they were walking along the Aguila Nagar Highway, mysterious men lurking along the road opened fire on police vehicles. Police vehicles caught fire. Fourteen policemen in both vehicles died on the spot and four policemen were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Authorities are investigating the incident

"Cowardly Grubs": Australia PM Slams Online Trolls For Abusing Athlete

Australia's prime minister Scott Morrison has described social media users who posted abusive comments beneath a photograph of Australian Rules player Tayla Harris as "cowardly grubs".

Harris, who plays for Carlton in the Australian Football League Women's (AFLW) competition, was pictured with her leg fully extended as she kicked a goal in a photograph posted online by a broadcaster on Tuesday.

The post was pulled after a rash of comments that Harris described as "repulsive" and "sexual abuse" appeared underneath it, although the broadcaster later put it up again with an apology.

The Prime Minister waded in on Thursday, saying that while social media attacks were nothing new, they did appear to to be disproportionately aimed at women.

Leaning heavily on the Australian vernacular, Morrison utilised the local word for a person indulging in disgusting behaviour to describe the online abusers.

"I think they're grubs," he told reporters in Melbourne. "I think they're cowardly grubs, who need to wake up to themselves.

"They're acting out some kind of hatred in a way that lessens them as people. We should give them no quarter and we should treat them as the grubs they are."

Harris, who also boxes professionally, described the online abusers as "animals" and received backing from around the world on social media.

The 21-year-old Queenslander said on Wednesday she would not be issuing a complaint to police but hoped the widespread coverage of the incident would make abusers think twice.

"I'm fine with people commenting on and critiquing my football ... but it's the comments that are severely inappropriate, comments that my family will read," she said.

"The support that has come from this has been phenomenal. I think that has shut down anyone who would have made a comment ... I hope they'd be thinking 'I've mucked up here' and hopefully they won't do it again."

Harris, listed as an All-Australian in AFLW's inaugural season in 2017, has helped Carlton to the last four of this year's edition. They play Fremantle Dockers in Melbourne on Sunday for a place in the final.

"Hello Brother": Words That Countered A Gunman's Hate In New Zealand

Hello brother." The warm-hearted words an elderly Muslim reportedly used to greet a white supremacist gunman have become Christchurch's answer to his volley of hate.

Mohemmed Daoud Nabi, a 71-year-old from war-torn Afghanistan, was buried on Thursday. But his supposed final words echo across this broken New Zealand city.

The gunman's footage showed Nabi offering a welcome at the doors of the Al Noor mosque. He was shot and the killer moved inside.

Initial reports indicated Nabi's remark was "hello brother", a fraternal greeting that could not contrast more starkly with the bile spewed about "invaders" by alleged gunman Brenton Tarrant.

The words are indistinct but it is a message that has resonated widely, including for New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

"His welcome tells us so much -- that he was a member of a faith that welcomed all its members, that showed openness, and care," Ardern said.

The phrase has since appeared across Christchurch and New Zealand -- scribbled on police cordons that flutter in the wind, Tweeted from around the world and written on placards held by mourners at his funeral.

"We Want To Live In Peace"

Kawthar Abulaban was praying in the women's section of the Al Noor mosque when the attack began.

The first shots she heard would have been the ones that felled Nabi.

She believes he has left a legacy, a powerful vocal rebuke to hatred and extremist ideologies.

"This message will tell all of the world what the Muslim people are, how we treat other people, how we care about them, how we want to live in peace together," the 54-year-old told AFP from the home she shares with her two daughters on the outskirts of Christchurch.

She was not in the least bit surprised the gunman was welcomed on arrival -- the Al Noor mosque regularly held open days.

During Christchurch's deadly earthquakes eight years ago, the mosque opened its doors to survivors and those without shelter.

Sara Mousa, who arrived in New Zealand from Egypt three years ago, was walking in the park opposite Al Nour with her eight-year-old son Malek, who sports a Kiwi accent.

She said everyone in Christchurch's close Muslim community now knew the phrase "Hello brother".

"It was so kind of him, he had a lot of mercy and love, no hatred. Even if he is holding a gun towards him and wants to kill him, he is welcoming him," she said.

The phrase has been repeated thousands of times on social media, appearing in cartoons and on tributes left with the growing walls of flowers in Christchurch.

One note tied to a tree in the city read: "This greeting was made by a pure soul with a peaceful faith as a rifle was pointed at him... Let us remember his love and be like him."

Fifty Pairs Of White Shoes

Faith communities have played a major response in helping Christchurch's tight-knit Muslim community deal with their trauma.

Churches have offered to open their doors for any Muslims wanting to pray. On Wednesday evening a biker-pastor organised a show of solidarity with locals standing behind Muslims as they prayed in the park opposite Al Noor mosque.

"We are here because love is greater than hate, that's the theme. We are here tonight for our Muslim whanau," Derek Tait, the biker-pastor said, using a Maori term for an extended family.

One particularly poignant tribute can be seen outside All Soul's Church in the suburb of Merivale where 50 pairs of shoes spray-painted white are lined up.

The tribute mimics a similar permanent memorial to the 189 people killed in the 2011 earthquake which contains a white tear for every person killed.

"I just thought of the chaos, tripping over shoes. There are all these people barefoot and bleeding on the street. There are people who will never fill those shoes," Vicar Megan Herles-Mooar, one of three women who came up with the idea, told AFP.

She described such tributes as "a visible sign on a sort of invisible grief" but warned New Zealand will need more than acts of solidarity in the immediate aftermath of these murders.

"We have to ask some really serious questions around racism and othering and how we welcome immigrants and let them know that they're not immigrants, they are part of our community," she said.

"My hope is that we have the courage to do that."

Back at her home Kawthar Abulaban says she has barely managed to sleep since Friday's attacks -- the trauma of that day coming back to her in waves of flashbacks.

But she takes comfort knowing the shooter has so far failed to inspire the division he hoped to sow.

"He is the loser," she says, after contrasting Tarrant with Nabi.

"He lost, not us. We lost friends, lots of friends from my community, but he didn't win."

Nabi's funeral on Thursday showed that community had only grown, his 100-plus mourners -- families and friends -- expanding to include a phalanx of bikers and locals inspired by his message.

"Allahu Akbar": Report Reveals Lion Air Pilot's Last Words Before Plane Crash

The pilots of a doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX scoured a handbook as they struggled to understand why the jet was lurching downwards, but ran out of time before it hit the water, three people with knowledge of the cockpit voice recorder contents said.

The investigation into the crash, which killed all 189 people on board in October, has taken on new relevance as the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other regulators grounded the model last week after a second deadly accident in Ethiopia.

Investigators examining the Indonesian crash are considering how a computer ordered the plane to dive in response to data from a faulty sensor and whether the pilots had enough training to respond appropriately to the emergency, among other factors.

It is the first time the voice recorder contents from the Lion Air flight have been made public. The three sources discussed them on condition of anonymity.

Reuters did not have access to the recording or transcript.

A Lion Air spokesman said all data and information had been given to investigators and declined to comment further.

The captain was at the controls of Lion Air flight JT610 when the nearly new jet took off from Jakarta, and the first officer was handling the radio, according to a preliminary report issued in November.

Just two minutes into the flight, the first officer reported a "flight control problem" to air traffic control and said the pilots intended to maintain an altitude of 5,000 feet, the November report said.

The first officer did not specify the problem, but one source said airspeed was mentioned on the cockpit voice recording, and a second source said an indicator showed a problem on the captain's display but not the first officer's.

The captain asked the first officer to check the quick reference handbook, which contains checklists for abnormal events, the first source said.

For the next nine minutes, the jet warned pilots it was in a stall and pushed the nose down in response, the report showed. A stall is when the airflow over a plane's wings is too weak to generate lift and keep it flying.

The captain fought to climb, but the computer, still incorrectly sensing a stall, continued to push the nose down using the plane's trim system. Normally, trim adjusts an aircraft's control surfaces to ensure it flies straight and level.

"They didn't seem to know the trim was moving down," the third source said. "They thought only about airspeed and altitude. That was the only thing they talked about."

Boeing Co declined to comment on Wednesday because the investigation was ongoing.

The manufacturer has said there is a documented procedure to handle the situation. A different crew on the same plane the evening before encountered the same problem but solved it after running through three checklists, according to the November report.


But they did not pass on all of the information about the problems they encountered to the next crew, the report said.

The pilots of JT610 remained calm for most of the flight, the three sources said. Near the end, the captain asked the first officer to fly while he checked the manual for a solution.

About one minute before the plane disappeared from radar, the captain asked air traffic control to clear other traffic below 3,000 feet and requested an altitude of "five thou", or 5,000 feet, which was approved, the preliminary report said.

As the 31-year-old captain tried in vain to find the right procedure in the handbook, the 41-year-old first officer was unable to control the plane, two of the sources said.

The flight data recorder shows the final control column inputs from the first officer were weaker than the ones made earlier by the captain.

"It is like a test where there are 100 questions and when the time is up you have only answered 75," the third source said. "So you panic. It is a time-out condition."

The Indian-born captain was silent at the end, all three sources said, while the Indonesian first officer said "Allahu Akbar", or "God is greatest", a common Arabic phrase in the majority-Muslim country that can be used to express excitement, shock, praise or distress.

The plane then hit the water, killing all 189 people on board.

French air accident investigation agency BEA said on Tuesday the flight data recorder in the Ethiopian crash that killed 157 people showed "clear similarities" to the Lion Air disaster. Since the Lion Air crash, Boeing has been pursuing a software upgrade to change how much authority is given to the Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, a new anti-stall system developed for the 737 MAX.

The cause of the Lion Air crash has not been determined, but the preliminary report mentioned the Boeing system, a faulty, recently replaced sensor and the airline's maintenance and training.

On the same aircraft the evening before the crash, a captain at Lion Air's full-service sister carrier, Batik Air, was riding along in the cockpit and solved the similar flight control problems, two of the sources said. His presence on that flight, first reported by Bloomberg, was not disclosed in the preliminary report.

The report also did not include data from the cockpit voice recorder, which was not recovered from the ocean floor until January.

Soerjanto Tjahjono, head of Indonesian investigation agency KNKT, said last week the report could be released in July or August as authorities attempted to speed up the inquiry in the wake of the Ethiopian crash.

On Wednesday, he declined to comment on the cockpit voice recorder contents, saying they had not been made public.

"Democracy In UK All But Dead": Donald Trump Jr Slams PM May Over Brexit

US President Donald Trump's eldest son rebuked UK Prime Minister Theresa May over her faltering Brexit tactics Tuesday, claiming she had unnecessarily prolonged Britain's EU withdrawal by ignoring his father's advice.

In a biting op-ed in the eurosceptic Daily Telegraph newspaper, Donald Trump Jr. criticised the British premier's latest plan to request a delay to Brexit, saying it signalled "that democracy in the UK is all but dead".

"Mrs May ignored advice from my father, and ultimately, a process that should have taken only a few short months has become a years-long stalemate, leaving the British people in limbo," Trump Jr. stated.

"Now, the clock has virtually run out and almost all is lost -- exactly as the European elites were hoping."

The comments come the week after the American president himself spoke out on Brexit, saying May "didn't listen" to his ideas on how to negotiate and that he was "surprised to see how badly it has all gone".

Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union on March 29 but is mired in division and perpetual political crisis about how to go about it.

The prime minister is set to seek a delay to the country's departure at an EU summit starting Thursday after MPs twice rejected an unpopular divorce deal she struck with the bloc last year.

In his Telegraph article, Trump Jr. argued such the move would ignore "the will of the people".

"Since 2016, Prime Minister Theresa May has promised on more than 50 separate occasions that Britain would leave the EU on March 29, 2019," he stated. "She needs to honour that promise."

The president's son said the issue mattered to Americans because "Brexit is an example of how the establishment elites try to subvert the will of the people when they're given the chance".

"The people of both the UK and the US must reaffirm the decisions they made in 2016 (votes) to stand up for themselves against the global elite," Trump Jr. added.

"Go Home, She Won't Come," Husband Was Told After New Zealand Shooting

Husna Ahmed was 19 when she arrived in New Zealand from Bangladesh on her wedding day. Waiting to meet her was Farid, the man she would marry in a few hours, as their families had agreed.

A quarter of a century later, the life they had built together was torn apart at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch when a gunman walked into the building, firing on worshippers at Friday prayers.

Husna encountered the gunman on his way out of the mosque. He shot her on the footpath. She fell and he fired two more shots, killing her instantly.

Farid, who uses a wheelchair after an earlier accident, was talking to a friend and was delayed from joining worshippers at his usual spot at the front of the mosque, instead praying in a small side room.

He managed to escape when he heard the shooting begin, returning when the gunman left, to find many of his friends and community members dead, and comfort those who were dying.

Farid found out about his wife's death when a detective he knew called his niece as they waited outside the mosque.

She passed the phone: "I don't want you to wait the whole night, Farid. Go home, she will not come," Farid said the detective told him.

"At the moment I hear that, my response was I felt numb," Farid told Reuters. "I had tears but I didn't break down." His niece crumbled.

A total of 50 people were killed in the rampage, with as many wounded, as the gunman went from Al Noor to another mosque in the South Island city.

Most victims were migrants or refugees from countries including Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Syria, Turkey, Somalia and Afghanistan.

Husna was one of five members of a growing but tight-knit Bangladeshi community killed, according to the Bangladesh consul in New Zealand, Shafiqur Rahman Bhuiyan. Four others were wounded, one critically, he added.

Members of the Bangladesh cricket team, in town for a test match against New Zealand, narrowly avoided the carnage, turning up at the Al Noor mosque soon after the attack took place.

Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, has been charged with murder. He entered no plea and police said he is likely to face more charges.

The slaughter has rocked Christchurch, and New Zealand, to its core, blanketing the city in grief and driving Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to promise swift gun law reform.

Based on what eyewitnesses told him, Farid said instead of hiding, Husna helped women and children inside the mosque and ran to the front of the building to look for him.

"She's such a person who always put other people first and she was even not afraid to give her life saving other people," Farid said.

Farid said he had forgiven his wife's killer.

"I want to give the message to the person who did this, or if he has any friends who also think like this: I still love you," Farid said. "I want to hug you and I want to tell him in face that I am talking from my heart. I have no grudge against you, I never hated you, I will never hate you."

Like a mother

A few hours after the massacre as evening fell, the front room of Farid's home in a sleepy Christchurch suburb where he runs a homeopathy business was full with survivors and friends grieving for a woman many described as like a mother to them.

Husna was born on 12 October in 1974 in Sylhet, a city on the banks the Surma River, in northeastern Bangladesh. She was so fast that Shahzalal Junior High School would only let her run three races, to give her rivals a chance, Farid said.

She moved to New Zealand in 1994.

Thin, nervous and overwhelmed by leaving everyone she knew for a new life in an alien country, she burst into tears when her husband-to-be picked her up from Auckland airport.

He comforted her on the long drive back to Nelson, where he was living, and where she quickly found her feet.

With almost no other Bangladeshis in the small city, Husna made English-speaking friends and learned the language within six months. Farid said she spoke it with more of a Kiwi accent than he did.

When Farid's workmates at a meatpacking plant agreed to work half an hour longer on Fridays so he could take a break to pray, she cooked them a feast every week in thanks.

And when Farid was partially paralysed after being run over by a car outside his house, after four years of marriage, she moved with him to Christchurch and became his nurse.

"Our hobby was we used to talk to each other. A lot. And we never felt bored," he said.

Rebuilding Christchurch

When Christchurch was razed by a deadly earthquake in 2011, Husna helped settle an influx of Bangladeshi migrants - qualified engineers, metalworkers and builders - who came to assist the rebuilding of the shattered city.

Mohammad Omar Faruk, 36, was one of the new arrivals. Faruk was working as a welder in Singapore but leapt at the opportunity to come to New Zealand where working conditions were better and permanent residency was possible.

Faruk was also killed at Al Noor mosque.

His employer, Rob van Peer, said he had allowed his team to leave early last Friday after they finished a job by lunchtime, meaning Faruk could attend Friday prayers.

Van Peer said Faruk was loved by his colleagues for his loyal and friendly personality and fast, precise welds.

Zakaria Bhuiyan, a welder at another engineering firm, also died. He was waiting for a visitor visa so his pregnant wife could travel from Bangladesh.

"My husband had so many dreams for our baby," said Sanjida Zaman, 19. "He dreamed of us being moved to New Zealand in a few years and my baby will get education there. What will happen to baby? Who will take care of my baby? I just can't think."

Mojammel Haque worked as a dentist in Bangladesh and was studying in New Zealand for an advanced medical qualification when he was killed.

All three men knew Husna, said their friend Mojibur Rahman, a welder and former flatmate of Faruk.

"It's really hard because we are a little community but everyone's living here in unity, we know each other, we share everything with each together," he said. "Now I don't know what's going to happen, how we become normal."

The fifth Bangladeshi victim was Abus Samad, 66, a former faculty member of Bangladesh Agriculture University who had been teaching at Christchurch's Lincoln University.

Customs and care

Many new workers to Christchurch brought young families, or were starting them and Husna took it upon herself to care for women through their pregnancies, often waking Farid at all hours so he could drive her to the births.

"We think she's like a mother...if there's something we needed, we go to Husna," said Mohammed Jahangir Alan, another welder.

Husna guided his wife, then 19, to a midwife and a doctor and joined her in the delivery room as she gave birth to a baby girl, Alan said.

A few days later Husna shaved the infant's head, an Islamic ritual which she did for dozens of children in the community. She was so gentle the baby fell asleep while she pulled the razor over the soft skin.

Husna would also lead the customary washing and prayer ritual for women who died. She was due to lead a workshop the day after her death to teach other women the process.

Now, Husna's devastated female family members will wash her for her funeral, expected later this week.

"We know she would just want us to be a part of it, to wash her," said her sister-in-law Ayesha Corner.

After the burial, Farid says he wants to continue the work he and his wife used to do and to care for their 15-year-old daughter.

When the lockdown at her school lifted on Friday, their daughter returned home, knowing only her mother was missing and asking where she was.

"I didn't miss a second, I said: 'She is with God,'" Farid said.

"She said: 'You are lying'. She said: 'Are you telling me I don't have a mother?'"

"I said: 'Yes, but I am your mother now and I am your father...we have to change the roles."

"At Least 100 Missing" In Zimbabwe After Cyclone Idai

At least 100 people are missing in parts of eastern Zimbabwe hit by the peripheral effects of tropical cyclone Idai which has lashed Mozambique, a local lawmaker said Saturday.

Thousands of people have been affected, power cut off and major bridges flooded in parts of the Manicaland province which borders Mozambique.

"The information we have so far is that over 100 people are missing and some of them" may have died, Joshua Sacco, a member of parliament in Chimanimani district, told AFP.

"At least 25 houses were swept away following a mudslide at Ngangu township in Chimanimani urban. There were people inside. They are part of the missing," he said.

Tropical cyclone Idai battered central Mozambique on Friday killing at least 19 people and cutting off more than half a million in Beira, one of the country's largest cities.

Local officials in Mozambique said that heavy rains earlier in the week, before the cyclone struck, had already claimed another 66 lives, injured scores and displaced 17,000 people.

Heavy rains in neighbouring Malawi this week have affected almost a million people and claimed 56 lives, according to the latest government toll.

''US Focused On Pressing Pak For Irreversible Actions Against Terrorists''

The Trump administration is now focused on pressing Pakistan to take "sustained and irreversible" actions against terrorist groups operating from its soil, a senior American diplomat has said.

Recently, tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed killed 40 CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district in February 14.

A senior State Department official said on Friday that the US stood "publicly and resolutely" with India in its response to the attack.

"Now we are focused on pressing Pakistan to take sustained, irreversible action on terrorist groups operating on its soil, and we are working with others in the international community to achieve this goal," the official said.

"The United States stood publicly and resolutely with India in its response to the attack, as you saw in our statements, while joining the international community in encouraging both sides to avoid military escalation, de-escalate tensions and communicate directly," he said.

In the aftermath of the Pulwama attack, the US has not only supported India's right to self-defence, but also has been building sustained pressure on Pakistan to take action against terrorist groups.

Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News that Pakistan has to stop harbouring terrorists.


"We saw what happened with India, the conflict that arose there as a result of terrorists that departed from Pakistan. We need Pakistanis to step up. They need to stop harbouring terrorists," he said.

Mr Pompeo had played a key role in de-escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan after Indian jets carried out air strikes at terrorist training camps of JeM in Balakot.

Senior officials who are part of the de-escalation efforts in South Asia believe that this is only possible as long as there is no terrorist attack inside India coming from Pakistan.

The recent talks between India and Pakistan on Kartarpur corridor is considered as a positive development in US. The US officials believe that both Islamabad and New Delhi have shown seriousness in de-escalating the tensions.

If Pakistan continues with its policy of supporting terrorist groups, the Trump administration may look into other options which could range from selective visa ban, revoking its non-NATO ally status and even cutting civilian aid to Pakistan.

Since January 2018, US President Donald Trump has stopped all security assistance to Pakistan.

"Our Gun Laws Will Change," Says New Zealand PM After Attacks On Mosques

New Zealand's prime minister vowed to toughen the country's gun laws after revealing Saturday that the man accused of murdering 49 people in two mosques legally purchased the arsenal of firearms used in the massacre.

Jacinda Ardern said the gunman, 28-year-old Australian Brenton Tarrant, obtained a "Category A" gun licence in November 2017 and began purchasing the five weapons used in Friday's attacks in the southern city of Christchurch the following month.

The firearms included two semi-automatic rifles, two shotguns and a lever-action weapon, she said, speaking to reporters in Wellington before heading to Christchurch.

"The mere fact... that this individual had acquired a gun licence and acquired weapons of that range, then obviously I think people will be seeking change, and I'm committing to that," she said.

"While work is being done as to the chain of events that led to both the holding of this gun licence, and the possession of these weapons, I can tell you one thing right now -- our gun laws will change."

She confirmed that the gunman and two suspected associates who were also arrested had not been on the radar of any intelligence agencies, even though he had published a manifesto online indicating plans for attacks on Muslims.

"They were not on any watchlists either here or in Australia," she said.

"The individual charged with murder had not come to the attention of the intelligence community, nor the police, for extremism," she added.

"I have asked our agencies this morning to work swiftly on assessing whether there was any activity on social media or otherwise, that should have triggered a response. That work is already underway.

"Given global indicators around far-right extremism, our intelligence community has been stepping up their investigations in this area."

Relaxed Laws

New Zealand tightened its gun laws to restrict access to semi-automatic rifles in 1992, two years after a mentally ill man shot dead 13 people in the southern town of Aramoana.

But firearms laws are lax compared to neighbouring Australia, which enacted a strict gun control regime in the wake of a similar massacre in 1996, and most other developed nations outside of the United States.

Anyone over 16 can apply for a New Zealand firearms licence, valid for 10 years after completing a safety course and a police background check.

Most guns do not require registration under New Zealand's Arms Act and police do not know "how many legally or illegally owned firearms there are in New Zealand", according to a police statement last year.

In 2014, police estimated there were up to 1.2 million legal firearms in civilian ownership, or around one for every four members of the public -- twice the per capita number of guns in Australia.

Separate "endorsements" are required to own semi-automatic weapons like those used in Friday's attack, as well as pistols and other restricted weapons.

But police and firearms experts have pointed to several loopholes allowing owners to bypass registration of semi-automatics.

Ardern noted the failure of several earlier attempts to reform gun laws and said a ban on semi-automatic weapons would be considered.

A 1997 police review of gun laws called for such a ban, but attempts to update the Arms Act since 1992 have stalled in parliament.

"Difficult Moment": All US Diplomats Leave Venezuela, Says Mike Pompeo

The United States has withdrawn all remaining diplomatic personnel from its embassy in Caracas as the crisis in Venezuela deepens, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday.

"Today, all US diplomats remaining in Venezuela departed the country. I know it is a difficult moment for them," he said in a statement.

"They are fully dedicated to our mission of supporting the Venezuelan people's aspirations to live in a democracy and build a better future for their families."

Venezuela is gripped by an acute economic crisis that has fueled the rise of opposition leader Juan Guaido, the national assembly speaker who in late January declared himself to be the interim leader.

The embassy closure is set to worsen already tattered relations with US President Donald Trump, who has not ruled out military intervention to oust President Nicolas Maduro as Washington monitors rapidly unfolding events in the oil-rich but crippled South American nation.



The US has already imposed sanctions designed to choke off Venezuelan oil sales, the lifeblood of the leftist government in Caracas.

The country began returning to normal Thursday following a near-total weeklong blackout that the government has blamed on what it calls sabotage encouraged by the US.

Pompeo said the diplomatic staff would continue from outside Venezuela to work for its future, help manage the flow of humanitarian assistance and support those "bravely resisting tyranny."

"The United States government, at all levels, remains firm in its resolve and support for the people of Venezuela and Interim President Juan Guaido," Pompeo added.

"We look forward to resuming our presence once the transition to democracy begins."

"They Are Shocked": Bangladesh Cricketers Escape New Zealand Shooting

Bangladesh's cricket team escaped unscathed after a deadly shooting at a mosque in New Zealand, an official told AFP on Friday.

Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman Jalal Yunus said most of the team were bussed to the mosque in Christchurch and were about to go inside when the incident happened.

"They are safe. But they are mentally shocked. We have asked the team to stay confined in the hotel," he told AFP.

Opening batsman Tamim Iqbal wrote on Twitter: "Entire team got saved from active shooters!!! Frightening experience and please keep us in your prayers."
"We r extremely lucky...never want to see this things happen again....pray for us."


Shrinivas Chandrasekaran, the team's high performance analyst, posted: "Just escaped active shooters!!! Heartbeats pumping badly and panic everywhere!!"

Mazhar Uddin, a reporter for Bangladesh's Daily Star who is travelling with the team, said they were told a shooting was going on when they arrived at Christchurch's Masjid Al Noor.

"The distraught Bangladesh players got inside a bus and laid down on the floor after the warning," he reported.

"There Was Blood Everywhere": Eyewitness On New Zealand Mosque Shooting

Multiple fatalities were inflicted at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday when at least one gunman opened fire on worshippers, police said.

Witnesses told media that a man dressed in a military-style, camouflage outfit, and carrying an automatic rifle had started randomly shooting people in the Al Noor mosque.

The Bangladesh cricket team was arriving for prayers at the mosque when the shooting occurred but all members were safe, a team coach told Reuters.

Police said they had one person in custody but they were not sure if others were involved.

Police advised people to stay away from mosques.

"As far as we know," the fatalities occurred at two mosques, New Zealand's Police Commissioner Mike Bush said.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said there was no place in New Zealand for such acts of extreme violence.

Police said earlier they were hunting "an active shooter" in the centre of Christchurch city.

"A serious and evolving situation is occurring in Christchurch with an active shooter," New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush said.

"Police are responding with its full capability to manage the situation, but the risk environment remains extremely high."

Media reported that a gunman opened fire inside mosque in Christchurch's Hagley Park district. There were reports of armed police at a sec
ond mosque in the suburb of Linwood.

People in centre of the city should stay indoors, police said. All Christchurch schools and council buildings have been placed into lockdown.

Police did not immediately comment on whether the incident took place in the mosque or nearby. There is no official confirmation on casualties.

Media said shots had been fired near a mosque and a witness told broadcaster One News that he had seen three people lying on the ground, bleeding outside the building.

Radio New Zealand quoted a witness inside the mosque saying he heard shots fired and at least four people were lying on the ground and "there was blood everywhere".

"Horrified to hear of Christchurch mosque shootings. There is never a justification for that sort of hatred," said Amy Adams, a member of parliament from Christchurch.

The Bangladesh cricket team is in Christchurch to play New Zealand in a third cricket test starting on Saturday.

"They were on the bus, which was just pulling up to the mosque when the shooting begun," Mario Villavarayen, strength and conditioning coach of the Bangladesh cricket team, told Reuters in a message.

"They are shaken but good."

Muslims account for just over 1 percent of New Zealand's population, a 2013 census showed.

(Reporting by Charlotte Greenfield and Praveen Menon; Editing by Robert Birsel and Michael Perry)

"Extremely Distressing" Video Of New Zealand Mosques, Warn Cops

The gunman who opened fire inside a crowded mosque in New Zealand's Christchurch during afternoon prayers today, reportedly live streamed the entire incident, unverified footage of which has been circulating on social media. The footage suggests the shooter filmed as he opened fire on the people inside the Masjid al Noor mosque. New Zealand police in a tweet acknowledged the circulation of "extremely distressing" footage and "strongly" urged users to not share it. "We are working to have any footage removed," the police said in the tweet.

Authorities later reported an attack on another mosque as well.

An eyewitness told Radio New Zealand he heard shots fired and four people lying on the ground, with "blood everywhere", reported news agency AFP.

Another eyewitness said he heard shooting and saw his wife lying dead on the footpath as he was escaping, according to AFP. Children are also believed to be among the dead. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said 40 people have died in the attack.

New Zealand has been on high alert, with Christchurch on lockdown with officials urging worshippers to not visit mosques "anywhere in New Zealand". The lockdown from schools was later lifted by the New Zealand police.

Police officials also urged mosques across the nation "to shut their doors", adding people should "refrain from visiting these premises until further notice." 

Officials said they were on the hunt for the shooter. In another tweet, the New Zealand police said it was "doing all it can to resolve this incident." Four persons, three men and a woman, were taken into custody by the New Zealand police, according to AFP.

The Australian Prime Minister in a statement said the shooter was "an extremist, right-wing, violent terrorist" holding Australian citizenship.

The Bangladesh cricket team, which was in the country for a cricket tournament, was about to enter the mosque, when the shooting began. The team was informed of the shooting after which the players "got inside a bus and laid down on the floor after the warning," said a Bangladesh reporter, quoted by AFP. They escaped unhurt. A Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesperson said the team was "mentally shocked" by the shooting and were confined to a hotel.

Ms Ardern, in an early reaction to the mass shooting, said the country was going through one of its darkest days.

"Clearly, what has happened here is an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence," Ms Ardern had told reporters.

Mass shootings are rare in New Zealand, which had reigned in its gun laws in 1992, two years after an incident in which a mentally disturbed man shot dead 13 people in the South Island town of Aramoana, according to AFP.

New Zealand gun laws restrict access to semi-automatic rifles, however anybody over the age of 16 can apply for a standard firearms licence after doing a safety course, which allows them to purchase and use a shotgun unsupervised, according to AFP.