AP, Washington President Barack Obama is underscoring that destroying the Islamic State group is his top priority. He says it remains a difficult fight, but is expressing confidence in victory. He says the group continues to lose ground in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria, and is being squeezed financially. Says Obama: “We are going…
AP, The Hague The International Criminal Court terminated the case against Kenya’s deputy president and ended his trial Tuesday, saying there was insufficient evidence he was involved in deadly violence that erupted after his country’s 2007 presidential election. The presiding judge wrote in the majority decision that the reason for the lack of evidence…
AP, Dubai Saudi state television reports that two people and a child were killed and a foreigner was wounded by shelling from neighboring war-torn Yemen. The state television report said the shelling happened around 5 p.m. Tuesday in the kingdom’s southern province of Jazan. It said the child died at a local hospital.
Tara Sattar The project for capacity building of Nursing Services, JICA funded project will hold round table with educators and student at Dhaka Nursing College (DNC) on April 11. They will also hold a policy dialogues with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Directorate of Nursing Services, DPs as Caada, KOICA on April 12, revealed…
AP, United Nations Israel protested Monday at the U.N.’s decision to ban panels on Jerusalem and Arab Israelis from an exhibition at the United Nations on various aspects of the country and the heritage of the Jewish people. Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon initially complained that three panels with photos and text had been barred…
AP, Jakarta Two passenger aircraft collided on the runway of an airport in the Indonesian capital, forcing its temporary closure. No injuries were reported. The accident on Monday evening occurred at a military airport that also handles civilian flights to ease congestion at Jakarta’s main commercial airport. Batik Air said in a statement that its…
AP, Kabul A notorious Afghan warlord who lives in hiding has dropped a key condition for ending his war of more than 40 years with Kabul, an associate said Tuesday. According to Amin Karim, an official of the Hezb-i-Islami Party, the party’s leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, is no longer demanding that all foreign troops leave Afghanistan….
AP, Washington The Obama administration is making the case that Iran is drawing down its elite fighting force from Syria in an effort to allay fears that Tehran is using its powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria to strengthen its influence across the Middle East. Yet the Iranian government said Monday it has dispatched…
BSS Two persons were killed in two separate road accidents in the district on Monday night. Police recovered the dead bodies and sent those to Tazuddin Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy. Police source said an unknown person was killed when a speedy vehicle ran over him in Maleker Bari area on Monday night. It…
BSS A mobile court comprising Fisheries Department, RAB and police seized 30 lakh meters of banned current net from a factory in Nayagaon area of the town on Monday. Acting on a tip off, the court, led by Executive Magistrate Asif Anam Siddique, conducted a drive to ‘Tasfia Fishing Net’ factory and seized the banned…