MEMO: Pope Francis urged European leaders on Sunday to stop bickering over the fate of 49 migrants stuck aboard two humanitarian rescue ships on the Mediterranean and to give them a safe port of call. With his comments at his address to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square at the end marking…
DOT Desk: Two auto-rickshaw passengers were killed in a road accident in Lakxmiganj area of Netrokona district, reports The Daily Sun. The deceased was identified as Tania Akhtar, 35 and her son Momen Mia, 12. Tania Akhtar’s daughter also was injured in the accident. The incident occurred while a bus hit a auto-rickshaw, leaving two…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain hints at the possibility of two candidates from his party who won in the December 30 polls taking their seats in the House. “We are looking at the matter positively,” said Dr Kamal, also the Jatiya Oikya Front chief, reports BDnews. “And we will…
Arab News: Thailand resumed flights on Saturday to its southern provinces, as the first tropical storm in 30 years slowed and headed into the Andaman Sea, leaving behind a trail of homes damaged by fallen trees or blown-off roofs, and disrupted power networks. Before tropical storm Pabuk hit land in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Friday,…
The Guardian: Three people have been killed and four people injured in a shootingat a bowling alley in Torrance, California, police have said. The Torrance police department said officers responded to calls of “shots fired” at the Gable House Bowl shortly before midnight. Multiple victims were found with gunshot wounds inside Gable House Bowl, which…
Arab News: A US corporate security executive and former Marine who has been jailed in Moscow on spying charges has spent more than a decade cultivating friends and contacts in Russia, both virtual and real. Paul Whelan sought out friends throughout the country, most often through a social networking site that is similar to Facebook…
France24: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on Saturday for international support to defend the self-ruled island’s democracy and way of life in the face of renewed threats from China. Tsai’s comments came days after Chinese President Xi Jinping said nobody could change the fact that Taiwan was part of China, and that people on both…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Fariha Salma Deiya Bakar, 20, whose family is from Bangladesh, speaks fluent Cantonese, Mandarin, Bengali, Hindi, English and the Filipino tongue of Tagalog, reports South China Monitoring Post. Born in Hong Kong, the university student may become the city’s first ethnic minority lawmaker if she realises her ambitions. “I want…
Hindustan Times: Business tycoon Vijay Mallya has been named as a ‘fugitive economic offender’ by a Mumbai court, the first person to be hit by a new law that empowers the government to seize properties of individuals who flee the country to escape prosecution. This is Mallya’s second setback in the last one month. In…
Anadolu Agency: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he owns no real estate, vehicles or personal property, echoing what experts say is a pattern among the country’s politicians of shifting assets to relatives. Lopez Obrador, who took office in December, told a regular news conference his family’s cars and home are in…