Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and 64-year-old Thara Uddin left the Al Furqan Jame mosque in the Ozone Park section of Queens shortly before 2pm on Saturday after afternoon prayers.
The pair were walking together along a street when the lone gunman approached them from behind and shot them in the head at close range, police said.
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"I’m pro-immigration and I think we need more Irish immigration", Cory Booker told Newstalk from his home state, New Jersey.
If the Democrats are re-elected to govern in November, Booker says they'll change immigration laws; making them "rational," noting that the Irish experience is a perfect example of how immigration grows the economy.
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In an effort to complete the construction of a 70-story high-rise apartment building and around 60 other structures on Pyongyang’s Ryomyung Street, project managers have resorted to extreme measures.
Speaking to Radio Free Asia (RFA), a source in North Korea state the workers are being given a drug known as 'ice', or crystal meth, as a stimulant.
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Michael Conlan is through to the quarter-finals of the men's bantamweight division at Rio 2016.
The Belfast native defeated Armenia's Aram Avagyan on Sunday afternoon, and moves one win away from a guaranteed medal.
He now faces either Thailand's Chatchai Budtee or Russia's Vladimir Nikitin in the quarter-finals.
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276 girls - mostly aged between 16 and 18 - were abducted from their school in Chibok in April 2014.
Around 50 managed to escape over the following few months.
