BSS Apple and the US government are squaring off in an epic legal battle with wide-ranging implications for how technology firms must work with law enforcement. The iPhone maker is being asked to provide “reasonable assistance” to the investigation of the last year’s deadly San Bernardino attacks by disabling security preventing the FBI from accessing…
BSS “Spotlight” triumphed Saturday at the Spirit Awards, the latest of a string of honors it has picked up in Hollywood’s annual prize giving season, with the Oscars just one day away. The movie, about the Boston Globe’s investigation into child sex abuse in the Catholic Church,took best film as well as best director for…
UNB Turkey all but turned a blind eye last year as more than 850,000 people, most of them Syrians, slipped into Greece from Turkey on smugglers’ boats. Now it’s promised the European Union that will change. Since reaching a deal with the EU in November, Turkey has stepped up its counter-smuggling efforts, increasing…
UNB It’s so unlikely you have to pinch yourself to believe it. Donald Trump, a property billionaire and reality TV star with no political experience, loud, vulgar and with a preposterous hairstyle, is well on his way to becoming the Republican party’s presidential candidate, reports NDTV. He’s storming into Super Tuesday, when 11 US…
UNB Cristiano Ronaldo says Real Madrid could be leading the Spanish league if everyone on the team was at his level. After a 1-0 home loss to rival Atletico Madrid on Saturday virtually ended the team’s chances of winning the title, Ronaldo criticized Spanish media for blaming him for the team’s poor performances and…
UNB A newly sworn-in police officer on her first shift with her Virginia department was shot and killed Saturday and two of her colleagues were wounded in a confrontation stemming from a call about an argument. Officers received a call around 5:30 Saturday evening in Woodbridge, about 30 miles southwest of the nation’s capital,…
UNB The Russian Federation has described Bangladesh as a very ‘promising’ country and identified its energy sector as the ‘focal point’ of bilateral cooperation between the two countries. “We believe that Bangladesh will be able to achieve its ambitious development goals and Russia remains Bangladesh’s friend and partner (in its development drive),” said Russian…
BSS Sepp Blatter warned Gianni Infantino on Sunday that miracles will be expected from him as the newly elected FIFA president but there will be plenty of backstabbers if he fails to deliver. Blatter, currently serving a six-year suspension from football, saw his 18-year reign as FIFA chief officially end Friday when 45-year-old UEFA secretary-general…
BSS Tunisia should adjust its development model to counter economic slowdown and build “inclusive growth”, the International Monetary Fund’s country representative said, ahead of an expected line of IMF credit. The authorities have failed to redress the economy since the uprising five years ago that ousted longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Tunisia’s…
BSS Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today laid the foundation stones of 10 economic zones, the first of its kind in the country, as she sought cooperation of the local people to set up those zones fast to build a prosperous Bangladesh. “I would like to urge local people to extend cooperation so that the investors…