Abrar Hussain: Law enforcers have arrested four more people for allegedly spreading ‘rumors’ on social media to ‘create unrest’. Social Media Monitoring and Cyber Security Division of Dhaka metropolitan Police arrested Mahbubur Rahman Arman, 30, Alamgir Hossein, 27, and Saidul Islam, 31, between 8:00 pm and 11:30 pm Sunday from different parts of Dhaka. Meanwhile,…
Anadolu Agency: Turkish prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for nine on-duty and former military commanders over their alleged links to Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind July 2016 defeated coup. According to a statement by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in the capital Ankara, the warrants were issued for personnel of the Turkish Land…
MEMO: Hamas is in discussions to reach a deal with Israel that would allow Palestinian to travel through the Rafah crossing and goods to be brought in and out of the Gaza Strip through Kerem Shalom (Kerm Abu Salem) crossing, Israeli radio has said. Quds Press reported Reshet Bet radio station saying the deal is…
AFP: Ko Shell had his teeth knocked out during torture sessions and spent 14 years in six jails, but as the 30th anniversary looms of the famed Myanmar pro-democracy uprising that led to his incarceration, he says those sacrifices are being forgotten. Sitting in a tea shop in downtown Yangon, he worries history is not…
VOA: The Nicaraguan human rights group that has been keeping the outside world abreast of the government’s deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters says it has been forced to close its offices. The Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights says it has gotten “threatening phone calls” and “alarming information” that authorities were planning to fabricate criminal charges against…
UNB: Police on Sunday arrested a school teacher in Kalapara upazila of Pataukhali on accusation of spreading rumor on facebook over ongoing student movement. Arrested Nusrat Jahan Sonyia, 26, is an assistant teacher of South Tiakhali Government Primary school.
Reuters: Singapore’s worst cyber attack in its history, in which personal information of about 1.5 million people including the Prime Minister was stolen, has the hallmarks of a state-linked group, the government’s communications minister said on Monday. In late June, hackers started stealing personal details and prescription records of patients who visited Singapore’s outpatient clinics…
Times of India: Political parties in Pakistan are scrambling to make nominations for the keys posts ahead of the August 15 deadline for the first session of the national and provincial assemblies. Under the Constitution, the first session should be called within 21 days of elections. As the elections were held on July 25, it…
Reuters: A court in Vietnam handed lengthy prison terms on Monday to several former bankers accused of mismanagement, amid a crackdown on corruption in the communist-ruled country. In the early 2010s, Vietnam’s banking system was rocked by a string of mismanagement scandals and under-regulated lending, and is still reeling from nonperforming loans. Pham Cong Danh,…
Reuters: A landslide killed a woman and at least seven children in Nepal over the weekend as officials issued warnings on Monday of the risk of more landslides and flash floods due to torrential rain. Working in the downpour, rescuers in Bheri town, about 310 kilometers (193 miles) west of capital Kathmandu, were still searching…