Anadolu Agency: A Syrian Turkmen commander said the Assad regime has kept at least 500,000 people in prisons. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Turkmen Mountain region’s 3rd Coastal Armed Division Commander Tarik Solak recalled his two-and-a-half-year ordeal of captivity in the regime’s notorious Saydnaya Prison in capital Damascus. “Around 4,000 people are held hostage at Saydnaya…
VOA NEWS: On a few days over the last year, federal agents approached travelers at several U.S. airports — flights bound for or connecting to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Frankfurt, Germany, and Dakar, Senegal. The officials — part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — weren’t searching for contraband, or guiding bag-sniffing dogs. They were part…
The Guardian, UK: New Zealand’s prime minister has returned to the capital as she prepares to jump back from maternity leave into politics. Jacinda Ardern this week officially ended her six weeks off, during which she gave birth to daughter Neve. Stepping off her flight at Wellington airport with partner Clarke Gayford and their daughter…
The Guardian: Ruptures are starting to show in Italy’s populist coalition as anti-immigration moves by Matteo Salvini, interior minister and leader of the far-right League, unsettle senior politicians from his ally, the Five Star Movement (M5S), and the party’s core voters. Voters from across the political spectrum flocked to the anti-establishment movement founded by TV…
Abrar Hussain: After a week of protests from students demanding safer roads, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan hinted firm action from the government. “Law enforcers and security forces have shown patience,” he said, “This does not mean that they will tolerate anarchy. We also have a limit. We will take action if that limit is exceeded.”…
Al Arabiya: Egyptian troops and security forces have killed at least 52 suspected militants in recent days, the army said in a statement on Sunday, as authorities push ahead with an operation to crush ISIS. The deaths brings to more than 300 the number of suspected Islamist militants killed in the operation that the Egyptian…
AFP: Kenya and Tanzania tomorrow mark 20 years since the devastating US embassy bombings that thrust Al-Qaeda onto the global stage and went on to shape how a generation thinks about personal security. It was mid-morning on August 7, 1998, when the first massive blast hit the US embassy in downtown Nairobi, followed minutes later by…
Dr M Shamsul Alam, Energy Expert : Stones belonging to Madhyapara Granite Mining Company Ltd (MGMCL) have disappeared the way coal from Dinajpur did. It was told after the coal disappearing that it got mixed with the air after being vaporised. But how will the authorities concerned narrate the stones going missing now? Stones neither…
Desk Report: Several hundred students of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) have blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway protesting attacks on students by police and alleged Chhatra League men at Jhigatola in Dhaka, and also demanding safe roads, reports The Daily Star. In solidarity with the protesting students of schools and colleges, the students gathered…
The Independent: Elon Musk wants to go and live on Mars – and he is not going to let new scientific findings stop him. The SpaceX and Tesla founder’s dreams of terraforming and colonising Mars appeared to have come crashing to a halt this week, when scientists revealed a detailed study making clear there would…