ISIS claims execution of 11 pro-govt fighters
Baghdad: The Islamic State jihadist group claimed to have executed 11 pro-Government fighters in Iraq, in a series of photographs shared online on Tuesday. The first picture shows masked men armed with assault rifles marching a line of orange jumpsuit-clad prisoners across a field. The captives are then shown kneeling in front of the gunmen with their hands bound.
UK Queen celebrates 89th birthday
london: UK’s Queen Elizabeth II turned 89 today and she celebrated her birthday privately at her Windsor Castle residence. She has been staying at the castle in Berkshire, south-east England, for the past month and has no official engagements listed for her big day. In her honour, the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery staged a 41-gun royal salute.
‘Protect migrants crossing Mediterranean’
Geneva: The UN on Tuesday asked the EU to take concrete steps for resuming search and rescue operations and offer “protection to people” making the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to seek asylum in Europe.
Alien spacecraft spotted in 55-yr-old NASA photoIJ
london: A UFO researcher claims to have spotted an extra-terrestrial spacecraft in a 55-year-old NASA photograph from the early days of America’s space programme. Scott C Waring, who lives in Taiwan, said he found an unexplained object in the image taken in 1960 by an unmanned probe sent out during NASA’s Mercury project.Waring, who was formerly affiliated with the US Air Force at SAC base, believes the discovery could mean alien observers have been keeping an eye on mankind’s missions into space from the beginning. The picture was captured by space capsule Mercury-Redstone 1A on December 19, 1960, express.Co.Uk reported.