Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-661 crashed after one of its two turboprop engines failed en route to Islamabad killing everyone on board, authorities said on Thursday, even as they began a probe into the accident and sent bodies for DNA test to identify the victims.

The flight with 47 people, including pop singer-turned-Islamic preacher Junaid Jamshed, his wife and deputy commissioner Chitral Osama Warraich, on board crashed in Saddha Batolni village near Havelian on Wednesday while en route to Islamabad from Chitral in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

According to flight manifest, 31 men, nine women, two infants and five crew members were on board the ATR-42 aircraft, which lost contact with the Air Traffic Control (ATC) at Islamabad's Benazir International Airport.

Egyptian security forces were hit by two roadside bombings in a single day on Friday that killed six policemen and wounded six in Cairo and the north of the country, security sources and officials said.

The attacks come as the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi faces an insurgency waged by Islamist groups.

In the first incident, on Friday morning, a recently emerged Egyptian militant group claimed responsibility for a bomb in Cairo that the interior ministry said killed six policemen and wounded three others at a checkpoint on a main road leading to the Pyramids.


The Hasm Movement, which has claimed several attacks in Egypt in recent months, said it set off the bomb which, security sources said, also injured four civilians.

Eyewitness Ahmed Al-Deeb described a scene of carnage, with dead and dying policemen lying next to wrecked cars. One of the policemen had blast fragments in his chest and two more had lost legs, he told Reuters Television.

The train was transporting 26 tanks of propane-butaine in the Hitrino village of the Shumen Province in the east of the country. Their explosion was lethal.

"At least four people died and over 20 were injured," a local fire-fighting crew's chief Nikolay Nikolov said as quoted by the BTV.

The blast destroyed several buildings. Twelve people were extracted from under the rubble.

Liberal activist and prominent filmmaker Michael Moore has called for a "bold mobilization" against the upcoming January 2017 inauguration of Donald Trump as America's 45th president. The campaign seeks to force Trump's inauguration "behind closed doors, showing the true face of the security state Trump will preside over."

Republican Donald Trump won the presidential election by a comfortable margin in the electoral college, but lost the popular vote by some 2.7 million votes. This, along with Trump's divisive rhetoric, has galvanized various groups to negate or, at least, seek to diminish his approaching presidency.

One prominent figure among these groups is the iconoclastic political activist Michael Moore. The film documentarian appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers December 8 to insist that he would "lead the charge" against keeping Trump out of the White House. "Fifty four percent of the voters didn't want Donald Trump... the majority of Americans do not want him in the White House," Moore told Meyers, after adding the votes from third-party candidates Jill Stein and Gary Johnson.

The doping test samples of 12 Russian medalists from the Sochi Olympics in 2014 were tampered with, according to claims made in the second part of a WADA-commissioned report, authored by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren.


The report, without providing any names, claims that over 1,000 athletes - in summer, winter and Paralympic competitions - benefited from the alleged plot to conceal positive doping tests.

"We are now able to confirm a cover-up that dates back until at least 2011 and continued after the Sochi Olympic Games. It was a cover-up that evolved from uncontrolled chaos to an institutionalized and disciplined medal-winning conspiracy," McLaren said at a news conference, as cited by Reuters.


The sports events where the doping was allegedly used by Russian athletes included the 2012 London Olympics, the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the 2013 World Student Games, and the 2013 World Championship in Athletics, according to the report.

Interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson by Jason Tucker and Jason VandenBeukel

Can you give us a brief background of your academic career and your interests?

For the first two years of my undergraduate degree I studied Political Science and English Literature. I was very interested in politics, but what I was learning in economics and political science was just not correct. There was too much emphasis placed on the idea that economic interests were the prime motivators for human beings, and that was not obvious to me at all. I was spending a lot of time thinking about the Cold War, and the Cold War was not primarily an economic issue. So I started taking psychology, and I was interested in clinical psychology. I did my PhD under Dr. Robert Pihl, and I worked on drug abuse, alcoholism, and aggression - there was a heavy biological emphasis. I did my post-doc with Dr. Pihl, and Maurice Dongier. Then I taught at Harvard for six years, and I've been at the University of Toronto ever since then.

My primary interest has always been the psychology of belief. Partly religious belief, and ideology as a sub-category of religious belief. One of Jung's propositions was that whatever a person values most highly is their god. If people think they are atheistic, it means is they are unconscious of their gods. In a sophisticated religious system, there is a positive and negative polarity. Ideologies simplify that polarity and, in doing so, demonize and oversimplify. I got interested in ideology, in a large part, because I got interested in what happened in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Cultural Revolution in China, and equivalent occurrences in other places in the world. Mostly I concentrated on Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. I was particularly interested in what led people to commit atrocities in service of their belief. The motto of the Holocaust Museum in Washington is "we must never forget." I've learned that you cannot remember what you don't understand. People don't understand the Holocaust, and they don't understand what happened in Russia. I have this course called "Maps of Meaning," which is based on a book I wrote by the same name, and it outlines these ideas. One of the things that I'm trying to convince my students of is that if they had been in Germany in the 1930s, they would have been Nazis. Everyone thinks "Not me," and that's not right. It was mostly ordinary people who committed the atrocities that characterized Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Part of the reason I got embroiled in this [gender identity] controversy was because of what I know about how things went wrong in the Soviet Union. Many of the doctrines that underlie the legislation that I've been objecting to share structural similarities with the Marxist ideas that drove Soviet Communism. The thing I object to the most was the insistence that people use these made up words like 'xe' and 'xer' that are the construction of authoritarians. There isn't a hope in hell that I'm going to use their language, because I know where that leads.

An Alabama inmate coughed and heaved for 13 minutes during his execution. Prior to his execution he repeatedly challenged the type of drugs which were set to be used, saying they didn't provide enough sedation.

During the 13 minutes of the execution Smith appeared to be struggling for breath. He heaved and coughed and clenched his left fist, and raised his head, after apparently being administered the first drug, midazolam (a sedative), in the three-drug combination, according to AL.com.

A Department of Corrections captain performed two consciousness checks before administering the next two drugs to stop his breathing and heart. The tests involved calling out Smith's name, brushing his eyebrows back and pinching him under his left arm.

"We do know we followed our protocol. We are absolutely convinced of that," Alabama Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn told AP.

Death row inmate Ronald Bert Smith, 45 was executed Thursday night by lethal injection for the 1994 murder of Huntsville convenience store clerk Casey Wilson. Wilson was pistol-whipped and then shot in the head by Smith during a robbery, court documents show.

'Stop Resisting' are the infamous words of police in America. While many times these words are warranted, all too often we hear them being repeated over and over as restrained and even unconscious victims are beaten to a pulp. Eastpointe's Frankie Taylor is an example of one these cases.

On August 10, 2015, Taylor was picked up for a routine DUI arrest and brought to the Eastpointe police department for booking. When Taylor asked the officers what he was being booked for, they became enraged.

"If you keep acting like a child, you're going to get strapped in that chair and you're going to stay there," an officer can be heard saying on the video.

When Taylor asks to use the phone, he is swarmed by police and forced into a restraint chair as police threaten to taser him. Once Taylor is in the chair, a sadistic officer is seen putting on his blue gloves before pummelling Taylor's face — over and over again.

Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District can now call 1-866-742-2273 if they're emotionally overwhelmed about life in American under President Donald Trump.

The new hotline will be answered on weekdays, and district officials also opened new "support centers" across the school district "to provide ... emotional support" for students upset Trump was elected president, according to a recorded message sent to parents.

The Los Angeles Times reports the recording from district superintendent Michelle King went out Monday, and a similar message was broadcast to students over school public address systems.

"No other time in history have we had to have school counselors on duty more because of the person who is supposed to be president," Jenny Jerome, a Pacific Palisades mother of three, told the news site. "I've seen kids acting really scared and crying."

The added emotional supports for L.A. students - 74 percent are Latino - build on measures the district has already taken to shield illegal immigrant students from federal immigration agents, and follow massive student walkouts to protest the president-elect, the LAist reports.

At least six people have been killed in a bomb attack on a road leading to the Great Pyramid of Giza - a tourist attraction popular with British holidaymakers.

The explosion appeared to have come from a rubbish bin in Cairo along a route used to access the entrance to the world heritage site, which lies in a western suburb of the capital.

Giza, one of the the seven wonders of the world and the only one to remain largely intact, welcomes thousands of British tourists every year.

However the dead are said to all be policemen and administrative officers working close to the landmark.

There have been no confirmed foreign casualties although four civilians were also injured.