NewZealand Prime Minister Ardern to marry long time partner

kiwis primier Jacinda Ardern and her long-term partner Clarke Gayford have become engaged to be married, her office said Friday. New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern(38), had Neve last June, becoming only the second prime minister in the world to give birth while in office and later taking the infant onto the floor of the UN Assembly in New York. I can't say anything about it other than they are engaged and it happened over Easter, the spokesman told the press. The engagement comes after a trying time for Ardern, who has been widely praised for her response to the Mar 15 Christchurch mosque shootings that claimed the lives of 51 Muslim worshippers. Ardern said in an interview last year that she would not propose to Gayford, even though she regards herself as a feminist.`I want to put him through the pain and torture of having to agonise about that question himself,` she told the BBC. News of the engagement broke after journalists noticed Ardern was wearing a diamond ring while carrying out her duties on Friday (3May).

pm narendra modi high level meeting to review preparedness for cyclone fani

The prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting to review preparedness for Cyclone Fani. He was briefed on the likely path of the cyclone, and the ongoing precautionary and preparatory measures being undertaken, official sources said. These include provision of adequate resources; deployment of teams from NDRF and the arr angements to provide drinking water; and standby systems to restore power and telecom services.  After reviewing the emerging situation, the prime minister instructed senior officers to maintain close coordination with officers of affected states.

three selfie crazy Indian teens crushed by train in haryana

In a shocking and horrific incident youngsters lost there lives in India. Three youths fell down while taking a mobile selfie alongside the railway tracks in Haryana. Four others narrowly escaped to death. Teenagers were killed while taking selfies on a railway track in Panipat, the country which researchers say has the worst record for selfie related deaths. The accident on Wednesday in Panipat city in the northern state of Haryana a police officer M. S. Dabas told the press. The victims were busy taking selfies and when they saw a train approaching they jumped to a second track without realising another train was coming on that. Experts warn that youngsters obsessed with social media are going to extreme lengths in order to post selfies seen as daring and risky. A study last year by researchers from the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences said 259 people across the world had died while taking selfies between 2011 and 2017. A study last year by researchers from the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences said 259 people across the world had died while taking selfies between 2011 and 2017.

isis chief abu bakr al baghdadi appears in propaganda video

The shadowy leader Islamic State group ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to appear for the first time in five years in a video released by the extremist group's propaganda arm on Monday. It is his first video appearance since he delivered a sermon at the al-Nuri mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014. The man said to be in the video also claimed the Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka which killed nearly 300 people were `part of the revenge` that awaits the West. He acknowledging defeat in the group's last strong hold in Syria but vowing a `long battle` ahead. `Our battle today is a war of attrition to harm the enemy, and they should know that jihad will continue until doomsday,` Baghdadi said.The video appeared to be aimed at boosting the morale. He bragged his group carried out 92 attacks in eight countries to avenge the loss of territory in Syria, citing Sri Lanka, Libya, and Saudi Arabia, without offering evidence for his claim. Despite numerous claims about his death in the past few years, Baghdadi’s whereabouts remain a mystery.  Many of his top aides have been killed, mostly by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes. He is among the few senior IS commanders still at large after two years of steady battlefield losses that saw the self-styled `caliphate` shrink from an area the size of Britain to a tiny speck in the Euphrates River valley.The video released by a media outlet run by the extremists, Al-Furqan, shows Baghdadi with a bushy grey and red beard, wearing a black robe with a beige vest and seated on the floor with what appears to be an AK-47 rifle propped up next to him. He is speaking with three men seated.