Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin has said that Pakistan’s GDP growth is projected at 3.94 percent. More than a month back, he had said that the country’s economy is in bad shape and needs.
May 17, 2021 Author Katherine Courage wrote an article for Vox News where she interviewed doctors who collectively have cared for more than 100 dying Covid-19 patients over the past 11 months. They shared what their patients have gone through physically and mentally as the virus killed them and their experiences reveal the isolating and invasive realities of what it is typically like for someone to die from Covid-19. One critical care and pulmonology specialist shared his patients’ traumatic experience: “As their lungs deteriorate further, they have a harder and harder time getting enough oxygen with each breath, meaning they need to breathe faster and faster up from an average of about 14 times per minute to 30 or 40. Such gasping can bring about a very real sense of panic. You can do that for 15 to 20 seconds, but try doing it for two hours or for days or weeks.”
In mixed Israel cities proud of good relations, a sudden, explosive division
14 May, 2021 07:00 AM
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Burned out vehicles in Lod, Israel, after a night of violence. Photo / AP
New York Times
By: Mona El-Naggar
Not even during the intifadas, the mass Palestinian uprisings of the past, did Israel experience such a surge of both Arab and Jewish mob violence. The Arabs and Jews of Lod, one of the most closely mixed cities in Israel, have been through many upheavals. But they had never before seen the kind of intercommunity violence that unfolded here over the past three days.
Killer Venod Skantha s death in custody forces change
13 May, 2021 05:55 PM
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The former doctor convicted of murdering a Dunedin teenager died in prison. Video / NZ Herald
Otago Daily Times
By: Daisy Hudson
The sudden death of a Dunedin murderer behind bars has sparked a life-saver change to national court processes.
Venod Skantha, who was convicted of murdering Dunedin teenager Amber-Rose Rush in 2018, is believed to have taken his own life at Otago Corrections Facility in mid-April, just hours after learning of a Court of Appeal decision upholding his conviction.
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His death revealed the courts did not inform prisons when a judgment was released.
Sudden death of baby in Auckland not suspicious
30 Apr, 2021 03:16 AM
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Police were called to the scene at Red Hill on Thursday morning. Photo / Google
NZ Herald
This morning police investigated the sudden death of a baby in Auckland.
Police were called to the scene in Red Hill southeast of Auckland at 10.45am on Thursday. Police are continuing to make inquiries following the death of a baby in Red Hill yesterday, a police spokesperson told the
Herald. At this stage, early indications are that the death is not suspicious and the matter will be referred to the coroner.
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