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One dead, hundreds rescued as floods hit Saudi Arabia's Asir region    ABHA: Saudi authorities have reported the death of one person on Wednesday and the rescue of hundreds of others after severe flooding in Saudi Arabia's Asir region. The Civil Defense said an individual had died and ten others injured as the agency rescued over 280 people while dealing with more than 900 emergency calls in the southern cities of Abha and Khamis Mushayt. Flooding in the region caused road closures and the launch of warning sirens in Abha dam area. 

‘Killer’ litchi the cause of mysterious disease plaguing children of Muzaffarpur     New Delhi [India]: Since 1995, every year a mysterious disease has been haunting Muzaffarpur in Bihar, in which large numbers of children would get feverish, then proceed to having seizures and convulsions and finally slipping in and out of consciousness. Scores of researchers and experts have launched exhaustive searches to find the root cause of this deadly disease, but to no avail. Until now.  In 2014, hundreds of children were admitted to hospital with symptoms of this illness, locally called as “chamki ki bimari,” or “tinsel disease.” Of 390 admitted for treatment, 122 died. A new report published in The Lancet Global Health medical journal, claims to have discovered the source of the disease, which is the litchi fruit. The illness, whose symptoms are said to resemble encephalitis, have several factors contributing to it including, heat, humidity, malnou...

Muslim woman cop harassed, called ‘terrorist Taliban’ for wearing hijab  2 Feb 2017   New York: A 38-year-old hijab-wearing cop has sued the New York Police Department, saying that fellow officers bullied her by calling “terrorist, Taliban” and while others tried to tear the headscarf off her head, media report said on Thursday.   Danielle Alamrani who joined the department in 2006, was converted to Islam a year later. She started getting harassed, bullied and even beat up when she began wearing a hijab to work in 2008, according to a new lawsuit. Once she started going to work in head garb, Alamrani’s fellow officers retaliated by calling her names like “terrorist” and “Taliban” and telling her “that she should not be a police officer,” claimed in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court. Things got so bad that in 2012 she was “physically attacked” by two officers who “attempted to rip her Hijab off of her head,” the New York Post quoted t...