Channel News Asia Twenty one prisoners, most of them members of Islamic State jailed on terrorism charges, broke out of a prison in northern Iraq but 15 of them have been recaptured, Kurdish security officials said on Thursday. The fortified jail of Sosa is located near the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya and include mainly…
Robert Shrimsley/Channel NewsAsia British Prime Minister Theresa May is in charge but not any better off, says the Financial Times’ Robert Shrimsley. Now what? That was the question Conservative MPs were left asking after the leadership challenge failed to deliver a knockout blow, leaving Theresa May still in charge but not really any better off….
France 24 “Narcos” and “Game of Thrones” star Pedro Pascal is to play the lead in upcoming “Star Wars” TV series “The Mandalorian,” Disney said Wednesday, as it builds on the beloved and profitable science fiction franchise. Penned and produced by Marvel mainstay Jon Favreau, the live-action show will follow Pascal’s lone gunfighter, making his…
At least six shops have been burnt in a fire and asset worth around Tk 12 lakhs was damaged at the Kaliganj Bazar in Bagmara upazila of Rajshahi on Wednesday. Fire service personnel brought the fire under control after one and a half hours. The fire broke out from an electric short circuit in a…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Workers’ Party of Bangladesh yesterday unveiled their manifesto which is mostly focused on bringing reforms to the existing state mechanisms, reports The Daily Star. At the unveiling, the party’s President Rashed Khan Menon said they laid importance on women and youth in their manifesto ahead of the election. Menon said,…
Sky News Nearly half of children’s slime toys failed the EU safety limit for the presence of a potentially harmful chemical, research found. The consumer association Which? tested 13 products from a range of high street and online retailers. Five failed the limit for the chemical element boron in toys, while another product classified as…
NDTV In a horrifying incident, a man in Florida said he received an unpleasant and unwanted side with his food order – dirty underwear. Uber Eats customer Leo, who wishes to be identified only by his first name, said he was shocked to find soiled underwear with his food order. According to Fox News, the…
Markar Esayan/Daily Sabah, Turkey The ‘yellow vest’ uprising may fade away due to accompanying violence and the government’s backing down. But this fading does not mean that such a phenomenon will disappear in France in particular or in the world more generally The “yellow vest” uprising in France, which broke out after fuel tax hikes,…
Food production has fallen this year in isolated, nuclear-armed North Korea, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Rice and maize are the North’s main staples, but rice output was expected to be below average because of erratic rains and low irrigation supplies, the FAO said in its quarterly Crop Prospects and Food Situation…
DOT Desk BNP candidate for Gazipur-5 constituency Fazlul Haque Milon was arrested by detectives from his residence in Kaliganj upazila of the district yesterday, reports The Daily Star. A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested him from his residence around 2:30pm, Shamsun Nahar, superintendent of police in Gazipur, told The Daily Star. Milon…