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• Woman suffers serious burns as unknown assailants hurl acid
• Multan: Mother, 3 children suffer burns in acid attack
• US woman sentenced to 100 years for cutting baby from stranger's womb
• Obama takes final bow at star-studded Washington dinner
• Istanbul braces for police lockdown on May Day
• IS claims killing of Hindu tailor in Bangladesh
• 84 migrants still missing after boat sinks off Libya: IOM
• Building collapse kills at least two in India's Mumbai
• Formula One: I'll never give up, says Hamilton as curse hits again
• Qatar requests 'emergency' Arab League meet on Syria
• Sudan military plane crash kills all five crew: army
• Karachi: Rangers in action, 8 militant wing operatives arrested
• Khawaja Asif mocks PTI leadership on Twitter
• PML-N leaders angered, respond to Bilawal's statements against PM
• Kalabagh: 2 dead, 7 in critical condition after consuming toxic meal

Woman suffers serious burns as unknown assailants hurl acid Posted: BAHAWALNAGAR (Dunya News) – A 27 year old woman in Bahawalnagar suffered serious burns Saturday as unknown assailants riding on a motorcycle hurled acid at her. The woman has been shifted to District Hospital in critical condition.The woman had arrived in Hafizabad village of Bahawalnagar for prayer. According to the police, two unknown youngsters riding a motorcycle stopped near her, attacked her with acid and then fled the scene. Doctors have said that the woman’s 35% part of the body has been burnt by the acid.The woman works as a hostess in private bus company.

Multan: Mother, 3 children suffer burns in acid attack Posted: MULTAN (Dunya News) – A mother and her children suffered burns when attacked by unknown assailants with acid. The incident occurred in Chuk Sardar area of Shujabad, Multan.According to the details, unknown assailants emptied a jar of acid on the mother and her children while they were sleeping in their home.The mother and her 14 year old daughter have been shifted to the emergency ward of Nishtar hospital, while 2 other children are under treatment in Civil Hospital Shujabad.According to police officials, action will only be conducted at the request of the father of the children.

US woman sentenced to 100 years for cutting baby from stranger's womb Posted: WASHINGTON (AFP) - A judge in Colorado has sentenced a woman to 100 years in prison for cutting an eight-month-old baby from a strangers womb with kitchen knives, local media reported.The sentence included the maximum penalties for attempted murder and unlawful termination of a pregnancy, which Judge Maria Berkenkotter said on Friday reflected the brutality of last years attack.A jury in February found Dynel Lane guilty of attempting to kill Michelle Wilkins by beating, stabbing and choking her after luring her to her home by posting an advertisement for maternity clothes on Craigslist, the online classified listings service.Prosecutors could not charge Lane with murdering the baby because a coroner found no evidence it had survived outside the womb.Lane, 36, had faked a pregnancy for months, deceiving her husband David Ridley, whom she had told would be the babys father.You embrace your narcissistic fantasy to live the lie you created, and it was more important than my life and my daughters life, the Times-Call quoted Wilkins as saying on the witness stand.The court in Boulder heard that Lane had posted photos of herself online in which she had appeared pregnant and that she had sent Ridley ultrasound images she had downloaded from the Internet.However, he had grown suspicious about her claims and pressured her to see a doctor, media reported.Lane lured Wilkins, 26 at the time, to her house in the city of Longmont, north of Denver, in March 2015.Prosecutors said that when Wilkins went into the basement to look at baby clothes, Lane hit her and tried to choke and smother her before cutting the baby from her womb, the Times-Call reported.She left Wilkins on the floor unconscious while she took the baby to a hospital with Ridley -- who lived with Lane and her two daughters -- saying she had suffered a miscarriage, media reported.Wilkins later regained consciousness and managed to call police. Reported to have been barely alive when she arrived at the hospital, she survived after an operation.Lane has expressed no remorse for the attack. Asked in court if she wanted to speak, she said no.However, her lawyer said she had been seriously affected by the death of her son in 2002, when he drowned in what was ruled to be an accident, the Times-Call reported.Prosecutors inability to charge Lane with murdering Wilkins baby prompted Colorado Republicans to introduce legislation that would have allowed a murder charge.However, Democrats rejected the bill, the third time the proposal failed in Colorado.But 38 other states have made killing a fetus a homicide.

Obama takes final bow at star-studded Washington dinner Posted: WASHINGTON (Dunya News) -With seven performances under his belt, U.S. President Barack Obama will try one last time to bring the house down at the annual White House correspondents dinner on Saturday, a night of playful ribbing of both politicians and the news media.The black-tie event, which Obama has previously joked is a night when Washington celebrates itself, brings together journalists and media moguls, Hollywood stars and policy wonks and the powerbrokers from Capitol Hill.For Obama, who is scheduled to speak around 10:20 p.m. ET (0220 GMT Sunday), it will be his final correspondents dinner as a sitting president. Comedian Larry Wilmore, who hosts a show on the cable outlet Comedy Central, will take to the podium after the presidents remarks.White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Friday not to rule out surprises from Obama, who has polished his comedic timing over seven prior dinner appearances.I know that the president will certainly poke a little fun at himself, Earnest said, adding that he thought some good-natured ribbing of his friends will occur as well.In previous years, Obama has taken on Washington gridlock, political rivals and presidential hopefuls with usually light-hearted, but sometimes pointed, jokes.Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who wont be at the dinner, could surface in Obamas monologue.Back in 2011, when Trump was weighing a 2012 presidential run and was in the ballroom, Obama skewered him for questioning whether the president was born in the United States. He then speculated about the change the real estate mogul would bring to the White House, including bikini-clad women in the front fountain and gold columns by the entryway.Wilmore, who has been working on his jokes with a small team for the last month, said he plans to talk about the presidential election and Obamas legacy. Ill definitely bring up race, Wilmore, who is African-American, told cable network C-SPAN. Thats going to be an issue in a lot of different ways.The dinner, a long-standing tradition, has morphed from a relatively low-key gathering of journalists and their sources into a glamorous red-carpet affair.Invitees this year include singer Aretha Franklin, actor Morgan Freeman and Super Bowl MVP Von Miller of the Denver Broncos. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is expected to attend, but his rival Hillary Clinton is not.The dinner has drawn criticism from some who feel that partying with sources is not conducive to hard-hitting journalism.

Istanbul braces for police lockdown on May Day Posted: ISTANBUL (AFP) - Istanbul braced for a major security lockdown for May Day on Sunday, with almost 25,000 police on duty and numerous roads closed for an occasion that regularly sees clashes between Turkish protesters and police.The Istanbul governors office said in a statement Saturday that in order to provide for the security of citizens on labour day, 24,500 members of the Turkish security forces would be on duty in the city.The metro station on the main Taksim Square will be completely closed and the station at the end of the main shopping street Istiklal Caddesi will be closed to exiting passengers.Security measures are already evident in Taksim Square -- a focus for protests in the past -- with metal security barriers lining the roads and dozens of anti-riot police present, an AFP correspondent said.Numerous roads -- in particular those leading to Taksim -- will also be closed, it added.The authorities, as in previous years, have refused to allow an officially-approved demonstration to take place on Taksim Square, meaning clashes are highly probable.The Hurriyet daily reported that police have requested all bars and clubs in the Beyoglu area around Taksim -- a popular nightlife spot -- close at midnight overnight Saturday to Sunday for the sake of public order ahead of the protests.Trade unions and labour groups are being allowed to hold an official demonstration on a market site in the outlying district of Bakirkoy, close to the citys main airport.But this is unlikely to attract the attention of the anti-government leftists who will likely try to protest in areas around Taksim and Besiktas on the Bosphorus.May Day comes at a time of particular tension in Turkey after a succession of deadly attacks this year blamed on jihadists and Kurdish militants.Controversy is also growing over the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom critics accuse of increasingly authoritarian tendencies.Several foreign missions have warned their citizens over the risk of violence in Istanbul on May 1, with the US embassy warning of the potential for violent confrontation between demonstrators and security personnel.On May 1 last year, Turkish police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse May Day protesters in Istanbul, while police and demonstrators engaged in pitched battles in some areas.Parliament last year passed a controversial security bill giving the police greater powers to crack down on protests.Taksim has been a flashpoint for clashes on Labour Day since dozens of people were killed there on May 1, 1977 when modern Turkey was going through one of its most turbulent periods.

IS claims killing of Hindu tailor in Bangladesh Posted: TANGAIL (AFP) - The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the murder of a Hindu tailor in central Bangladesh on Saturday, according to a US-based monitoring group, amid a rise in attacks on religious minorities in the Muslim-majority nation.Elements from the Islamic State assassinated a Hindu in the city of Tangail in Bangladesh by stabbing him to death, the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency said, citing a source, according to SITE Intelligence Group.He was known for blaspheming the (Peace Be Upon Him), Amaq said in the Arabic message.Police officials told AFP they were investigating whether the killing was linked to extremist militants or was tied to a family dispute.They came on a motorcycle and attacked him as he sat on a roadside. They hacked him on his head, neck and hand, deputy chief of Tangail district police Aslam Khan said.Bangladesh is reeling from a series of brutal attacks on members of minority faiths, secularists, foreigners and intellectuals in recent months, including two gay activists and a liberal professor in the past eight days alone.Many of the killings have been blamed on or claimed by extremist groups and in several cases attackers riding motorbikes hacked the victims to death with machetes or cleavers.However, the government denies that international terrorist groups such as IS or Al-Qaeda have a presence in the country, instead blaming homegrown militants for the killings.Local Muslims had in 2012 filed a complaint with police against Joarder, who owned a tailoring shop, for making derogatory comments about the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him).He was charged with hurting religious sentiments and spent three weeks in jail.But the trial did not proceed after the complainants withdrew the charges, Abdul Jalil, the police chief of Gopalpur sub-district told AFP.Another official said that the dispute appeared to have ended peacefully, adding that the victims family said he was also being threatened by a relative.Arrests in Christian killingSeparately, police said Saturday they had arrested two members of a banned extremist militant outfit, Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the case of a Christian convert brutally hacked to death in March.The JMB men are suspects in the murder of Hossain Ali Sarker, Kurigram district police chief Tobarak Ullah told AFP, adding that the arrests were made two days ago.IS group has in recent months claimed responsibility for the killing of Christians, Hindu priests and members of the minority faiths in Bangladesh.In February suspected militants decapitated a top Hindu priest inside a temple complex in one of the countrys northern districts, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.The murders come amid a long-running political crisis that some suggest has radicalised opponents of the government. Analysts say terrorists now pose a growing danger in the South Asian country.At least 30 members of religious minorities, secular activists, foreigners and intellectuals have been murdered in Bangladesh in the past three years.Hindus, the countrys largest religious minority, make up nearly 10 percent of Bangladeshs 160 million people.

84 migrants still missing after boat sinks off Libya: IOM Posted: ROME (AFP) - Eighty-four migrants are still missing after an inflatable craft sank off the coast of Libya, according to survivors cited by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Saturday.Twenty-six people were rescued from the boat which sank on Friday, and were questioned overnight. According to testimonies gathered by IOM in Lampedusa 84 people went missing, IOM spokesman in Italy Flavio Di Giacomo wrote on his Twitter feed.Earlier Saturday Italys coastguard said an Italian cargo ship had rescued 26 migrants from a flimsy boat sinking off the coast of Libya but voiced fears that tens more could be missing.The coastguard received a call from a satellite phone late Friday that helped locate the stricken inflatable and called on the merchant ship to make a detour to the area about four miles (seven kilometres) off the Libyan coast near Sabratha.The nationalities of the rescued migrants, who were transferred to a coastguard vessel and taken to the Italian island of Lampedusa, were not immediately known.More than 350,000 people fleeing conflict and poverty have reached Italy on boats from Libya since the start of 2014, as Europe battles its biggest migration crisis since World War II.

Building collapse kills at least two in India's Mumbai Posted: MUMBAI (AFP) - A three-storey building collapsed in Indias Mumbai on Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring five, local authorities told AFP.Rescue work was ongoing at the site in the financial capital as local police said they feared five or six people still lay trapped under the rubble.We received five patients from the site of the collapsed building, said a duty officer at JJ Hospital in Mumbai, one of two hospitals where the injured were taken.Two of them were brought in dead and the other three are critical with severe head and fracture injuries.Local media reports said the building housed a beer bar and a factory.A senior police official in the city gave a lower death toll, saying one person had been killed and at least five injured, but said rescue work was still ongoing.We are trying to ascertain if five or six people are actually trapped under the rubble, Dhananjay Kulkarni, a spokesman for Mumbai Police told AFP, adding that the cause of the collapse was not known.Mumbai has been hit by several deadly building collapses in recent years, often caused by shoddy construction, poor quality materials or ageing buildings.But in one of Indias most crowded and expensive cities, people still use old, dilapidated buildings because of a shortage of space.

Formula One: I'll never give up, says Hamilton as curse hits again Posted: SOCHI (AFP) - A crestfallen Lewis Hamilton vowed Saturday to never give up in his world title defence after another engine failure wrecked his hopes in qualifying for Sundays Russian Grand Prix.The defending three-time world champion was unable to take part in the Q3 top-ten shootout as his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg cruised to a 24th career pole position by seven-tenths of a second.He also suffered an engine failure at the Chinese Grand Prix where he started from the back of the grid and has been involved in opening lap accidents in all three races this year.In Shanghai, he recovered from last to finish seventh. This time, he said, he only wanted just to recover from wherever I start tomorrow. Theres nothing I can do.But, you know, I never give up.Rosberg, seeking his first world title, has taken full advantage and won all three races this season to open up a 36-point lead ahead of Hamilton in the championship.This time, Hamilton suffered his power unit failure on his outlap for a second run during Q2, after topping the times in Q1.As a result, he qualified 10th, but may face a further setback if he is given a grid penalty for a change of engine ahead of Sundays race.Hamilton said the power unit problem was similar to that which he suffered in China.This was the second engine (of the season), from the last race. And the same failure I had in the last race as well. I went back out in Q2 at the end to get a feel of it and I lost the same power as I lost in China.His Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff admitted: Its a very bizarre situation. It seems like the same failure as in Shanghai, which means we have to reassess the root cause of the problem.But this is motor racing and it can happen. Lewis seems to have all the bad luck and the other side of the garage has all the luck.I hope there is no penalty for Lewis, but we need to discuss that with the FIA (International Motoring Federation) to see what we want to do and make it without a penalty.Its getting tough for Lewis now and I have no doubt he will come out of it. But, right now, he has every right to be upset.

Qatar requests 'emergency' Arab League meet on Syria Posted: DOHA (AFP) - Doha has requested an emergency meeting of Arab League envoys to discuss deadly Syrian regime air raids on the war-ravaged city of Aleppo, the official Qatar News Agency reported Saturday.Qatars permanent envoy at the Cairo-based pan-Arab body has requested holding a meeting to discuss the dangerous escalation in the city of Aleppo and the Syrian regime forces massacres against civilians there, said the statement on QNA.The request comes after Russia said it will not ask the Syrian regime it backs to halt air raids on Aleppo, capital of the northern province of the same name and a key battleground in the five-year Syria war.Some 250 civilians have been killed in Syrian regime air raids since April 22 or in army and rebel crossfire that has intensified despite a truce which came into force on February 27, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia late on Friday strongly condemned the raids and urged the Syrian regimes allies to take all measures needed to stop these attacks and all crimes carried out by (President) Bashar al-Assad and his supporters against the Syrian people.Through this criminal act, the tyrant of Damascus Bashar al-Assad, affirms that he is not serious in responding to the demands of the international community or in moving ahead with the ongoing talks to peacefully resolve the Syrian crisis, said a Saudi foreign ministry official in a statement on the SPA news agency.A new round of UN-backed peace talks is set to start on May 10 in Geneva.Qatar and Saudi Arabia support Syrian rebels fighting Assads Russian- and Iranian-backed regime in a conflict which has killed more than 270,000 people since it began in March 2011.

Sudan military plane crash kills all five crew: army Posted: KHARTOUM (AFP) - A Sudanese military plane crashed on Saturday in the state of North Kordofan, killing all five crew members on board, the army said.The Soviet-era Antonov 26, usually used in operations against rebels, crashed while landing at the airport in El Obied, the capital of North Kordofan, an army statement said.The aircraft has been destroyed and all five crew members martyred, it said. Three army officers and two soldiers were on board.The army said the crash was caused by technical problems.The air force fleet of Russian-made planes and helicopters has suffered a number of losses in recent years, with the military frequently blaming technical problems.In June 2013, two air force crew died when their helicopter crashed in war-torn Blue Nile state, just a week after another went down in conflict-plagued South Kordofan.The military relies heavily on air power in its campaign against the rebel Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) as well as in fighting rebels in war-torn Darfur in the far west.SPLM-N insurgents in Blue Nile and South Kordofan have been fighting President Omar al-Bashirs Arab-dominated Khartoum government since 2011.Rebels have often claimed to have shot down military aircraft in these regions.

Karachi: Rangers in action, 8 militant wing operatives arrested Posted: KARACHI (Dunya News) – Crackdown against crime and terrorists continued Saturday with Rangers in action in Karachi. Eight suspects including operatives of a militant wing were arrested during raids conducted by the security agency in several areas of the city.According to the Rangers Spokesperson, raids were conducted in Mohammadi Colony, Kala Board, Azizabad, Landhi and Golimar areas.On the other hand, citizens managed to nab a dacoit engaged in looting citizens in Buffer Zone 15-A area. Citizens thrashed the suspect severely before handing him over to the police.Police say the robber was involved in incidents of street crime in several areas of the city including the Buffer Zone.

Khawaja Asif mocks PTI leadership on Twitter Posted: LAHORE (Dunya News) - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and Federal Minster Khawaja Asif on Saturday mocked Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leadership through a tweet, reported Dunya News.Khawaja Asif included a famous dialogue from 1975 Bollywood movie ‘Sholay’ in his tweet, adding “both of your ‘ATMs’ have offshore accounts”.Asif’s tweet comes at a time when the country’s politicians are being criticised for having accounts in offshore companies and evading taxes.Tera Kaya bane ga Kalia, Teri to dono ATMs offshore nikleen..— Khawaja M. Asif (@KhawajaMAsif) April 30, 2016 Hor raula pao....— Khawaja M. Asif (@KhawajaMAsif) April 30, 2016

PML-N leaders angered, respond to Bilawal's statements against PM Posted: LAHORE (Dunya News) – Leaders of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Saturday were greatly angered by Pakisatn Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto’s statements against Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif and responded with their own rebuttals.Talking to Dunya News, Member National Assembly (MNA) Talal Chaudhry said that Bilawal is still a kid and the party does not take his statements seriously. He also responded sarcastically to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s alleged friendship over the fight against corruption.PML-N leader Daniyal Aziz criticised Bilawal, saying that the PPP chairman may not have talked with his father before demanding resignation from the PM.Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah also responded to Bilawal’s speech. He stated that calling PM Nawaz, who made Pakistan a nuclear power, as a friend of India showed Bilawal’s political weakness. He added that Bilawal should look towards his own home before targeting corruption.

Kalabagh: 2 dead, 7 in critical condition after consuming toxic meal Posted: KALABAGH (Dunya News) – Two people have died whereas seven are left in a critical condition after consuming a toxic meal in the Thatti Sharif area, reported Dunya News.The two persons who died are grandfather and granddaughter in relation and are named as Abdul Rehman and Tasneem, who was 10 year old.The ones in critical condition were transferred to the District Headquarters Hospital, Mianwali. The victims include a mother, two sons named Dilawar and Ramzan and four daughters named Irum, Muskaan, Muqadas and Yasmeen who are aged between 3-15 years.According to local sources, the family slaughtered a goat and consumed its meat as the goat was shivering after it was bitten by a venomous insect which left all of them in a terrible shape.

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