ABC News: Indian police have arrested a 48-year-old man who they say has confessed to killing 33 truck drivers and their helpers over the past decade, then selling the vehicles and the goods they were carrying. The man was arrested two weeks ago near the central town of Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state,…
Desk Report: Teachers and employees of non-government educational institutions yesterday threatened to wage movement again if their demands including nationalization of their institutes are not met immediately, reports UNB. Bangladesh Non-Government Teachers’ and Employees’ Forum came up with the threat at a press conference at Jaiya Press Club yesterday morning. Their demands include nationalsation of…
Hossen Sohel: Pakistan’s military is using fear and intimidation to stifle the media and undermine press freedom even as overall violence against reporters has fallen, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said yesterday.The press freedom group said the military had established “lines of control” to pressure the media and journalists who pushed back or were…
Hossen Sohel: The United States will fall short by a third on its commitment under the Paris climate treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released yesterday in San Francisco, reports AFP. A crescendo of efforts at the sub-national level by states, cities and business to shrink the country’s carbon footprint will…
Ronnie Jordan/Seven Billion Today I don’t know about you all, but I for one am extremely pissed off. Charity has been around for hundreds of years. The first charity was established in 1756. We have big corporate bosses donating BILLIONS on an annual basis (Bill Gates, anyone?). We also have the middle-class collectively donating BILLIONS…
Reuters: About 50 Brexit-supporting lawmakers in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s party have met to discuss how and when they could force her out of her job, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Since her botched bet on a snap election in June 2017 lost her party its majority in parliament, May has faced persistent talk…
Reuters: The leaders of Sweden’s center-right opposition Alliance on Wednesday urged the incumbent Social Democrat-led bloc to step aside and help them form a viable government to break a post-election deadlock. The rise of the far-right Sweden Democrats, shunned by both center-right and center-left, left both big mainstream blocs neck-and-neck, and short of a…
UNB: A 19-member delegation of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) on Wednesday called for the sustainable return of Rohingyas as the delegation completed a three-day visit to Bangladesh. The delegation member visited Rohingya camps on Wednesday to observe firsthand the situation of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar sheltered in Cox’s…
Anne Hellge in south-western Ethiopia/UNHCR(United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) “There was not a single cloud. They didn’t say a word. They set our homes on fire, slaughtered our animals and took all our belongings.” Mohamed and his family, from the Oromo community, were among scores caught up in the ethnic violence that flared up…
Reuters: Italy’s ruling coalition said on Wednesday that the chief of Consob, the country’s market watchdog, should resign because they say his continued ties to the European Commission conflict with his institutional role. Consob head Mario Nava was appointed earlier this year by the previous government. “Contrary to the opinion expressed by the previous government,…