Washinton Post: Lawyers representing Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa have filed papers urging the country’s Constitutional Court to throw out an opposition challenge to his disputed election. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has said Mnangagwa and the ruling ZANU-PF party won the July 30 election in this politically and economically troubled southern African country’s first election without…
Sayeed Muhammad: At least 10 elderly women were killed as a fire swept through a nursing home in southern Chile on Tuesday. Investigators were trying to determine the cause of the fire that broke out around 3 am in the women’s dormitory at the Santa Marta nursing home in Chiguayante, reports AP. The area is…
BBC: An Australian senator has been widely condemned for a speech that invoked the term “final solution” in a call for immigration restrictions based on race. Fraser Anning, from the conservative Katter’s Australian Party, called for migration bans on Muslims and others in his maiden Senate speech on Tuesday. Political opponents denounced his speech as…
Kabir Humayun: A student of United International University (UIU) was allegedly abducted from Dhaka. The kidnappers have demanded Tk 10 lakh ransom from his family for his release, reports The Daily Star. According to family sources, Enamul Haque Olen, 23, an Electrical and Electronic Engineering student of the university, went traceless Tuesday. He started out…
Hindustan Times: As chants of Bharat Mata ki Jai and Jai Hind filled the air, BJP chief Amit Shah prepared to unfurl the national flag at the party headquarters in New Delhi on India’s 72nd Independence Day. But as soon he pulled the string attached to the post for the hoisting ceremony, the national flag…
MEMO: The Egyptian Interior Ministry yesterday announced that 13 people affiliated with the bannedMuslim Brotherhood were arrested for inciting “demonstrations and chaos”. The ministry said in a statement that six members of the Muslim Brotherhood were arrested inthe governorate of Sohag, while seven others were arrested while riding a bus in Beheiragovernorate. According to the…
Sabah Mannan: Pakis-tani-born Mehreen Faruqi has joined Australia’s senate as its first female Muslim member whilst the country battles with a bitter row over racism. To fill a vacant seat, the Greens Party MP for New South Wales was appointed by the senate yesterday and will be sworn in next week. This came after conservative…
Wion News: China has blasted US tariffs on solar panel imports, filing a complaint at the World Trade Organization in the latest salvo of the trade battle between the world’s two economic giants. US President Donald Trump approved steep tariffs on solar panel imports in January to protect US producers, triggering an outcry from China, South…
Channel News Aisa: Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “at an early date”, the North’s state media reported on Wednesday (Aug 15), amid a rapid diplomatic thaw on the peninsula. Putin invited Kim and the South’s President Moon Jae-in in June to an economic forum in…
NTVonline: A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) while 23 fishermen were rescued from the clutches of forest robbers in Marki Canal of Sibla River in the Sundarbans on Wednesday. Lieutenant CommanderZahid of Rab-6 said they conducted a drive in the morning to rescue the fishermen who had…