Human Rights

NEW YORK (AP) — After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, the black man whose dying gasps of “I can’t breathe” gave voice to a national debate over race and police use of force.

Police Commissioner James O’Neill said he fired Daniel Pantaleo, who is white, based on a recent recommendation of a department disciplinary judge.

19 Aug 2019; MEMO: Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday warned of Israel attempts to impose spatial divisions at Al-Aqsa Mosque as part of the electoral campaigns of right-wing parties led by current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Assabeel newspaper reported.

ADEN, Yemen, Aug 19 (NNN-SABA) – Warplanes of the Saudi-led Arab coalition launched 12 airstrikes against positions of the Houthi group in Yemen’s northern province of Saada on Sunday, a military official said.

The military source of Yemen’s government forces said, “the Saudi-led coalition intensified airstrikes against the main strongholds of the Houthis, particularly in Saada.”

He said that eight airstrikes targeted Maran area, that’s located to the southwestern part of Saada, causing an unknown number of casualties.

TEHRAN, Iran, Aug 19 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Sunday reiterated Iran’s position, for the departure of foreign forces from the region.

Zarif made the remarks, in a meeting with Kuwait’s Crown Prince, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in Kuwait on Sunday.

Zarif urged cooperation among regional states, saying, outsiders will have to leave the region, ultimately.

TEHRAN, Aug 19 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian ambassador to Britain Hamid Baeidijnejad said on Sunday that with the arrival of a specialist engineering team to Gibraltar, Adrian Daria (formerly Grace 1) ship was expected to leave the area on Sunday night.

New Delhi; 19 Aug 2019; GANASHAKTI: Terming them ‘baseless,’ the Indian Army on Sunday rejected two specific claims made by activist and Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement leader Shehla Rashid on the ground situation in Kashmir, ANI reported.

These were among the ten allegations levelled by Rashid in a series of tweets – based on “things that people coming from Kashmir say about the situation.

New Delhi, Aug 19 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday granted two more weeks' time to the CBI to complete the ongoing investigation in a road accident case in which the Unnao rape survivor and her lawyer have sustained critical injuries.

A bench comprising Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose extended the time for completing the probe after the CBI moved an application seeking four more weeks on the ground that the statements of the rape survivor and her lawyer have not been recorded so far.

Islamabad, Aug 19 (PTI) Pakistan on Monday summoned India's Deputy High Commissioner Gaurav Ahluwalia for the fourth time over alleged ceasefire violations by the Indian troops along the Line of Control (LoC).

Pakistan Foreign Office said that Director General (South Asia and SAARC) Mohammad Faisal "condemned the unprovoked ceasefire violations on August 18 in Hot Spring and Chirikot Sectors".

It claimed that two elderly civilians were killed and a seven-year-old boy was seriously injured in the firing.

Muzaffarnagar, Aug 19 (PTI) A woman hanged herself from the ceiling of her residence after being allegedly harassed for dowry by her in-laws in Muzaffarnagar district, police said Monday.

Rashmi had married Sumit Kumar eight months ago.

Kumar and his father have been arrested on abetment to suicide charge based on a complaint by the woman's father, they said.

The suicide was reported from Goela village on Sunday.

The body has been sent for a post-mortem examination.

Srinagar, Aug 19 (PTI) Teachers reported to work in many schools in Kashmir as restrictions were eased further on Monday but not many students were seen

Officials said the government has made necessary arrangements for opening of 190 primary schools in Srinagar city as security forces remained deployed in most of the Valley