Reuters: Security forces on Sunday pulled the bodies of three suspected militants out of a partially collapsed building in a city in central Jordan following a shoot out, a government spokeswoman said. Security forces had raided the building in a search for those responsible for a bomb attack on a police van on Friday that…
NDTV: Two inmates died at a shelter for women with mental disabilities in Bihar, their postmortem was also conducted at Patna Medical College, but the officials of the state-run facility didn’t bother to inform the police. A 40-year-old woman and a girl, 16, were taken to the hospital on Friday, but the doctors declared them…
Abrar Hussain: A recent research has claimed that nearly 11,000 women in Bangladesh die of uterus cancer annually, while about fifty million females are at risk to be affected by the disease. The research, conducted by a team of uterus cancer experts, highlighted that the illiterate, underprivileged and sex workers are at the greatest risk…
Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, political analyst, founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra: Even the incumbent government is not satisfied with the Election Commission. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader told the EC to speak carefully. Recently, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) said that the commission cannot guarantee irregularity-free national elections. Such kind of comment from the CEC is…
The Hill: Germany’s top economic official is criticizing President Trump over U.S. trade policies, saying that the escalating tariff dispute is “destroying” economic progress in his country. “This trade war is slowing down and destroying economic growth – and it creates new uncertainties,” Economy Minister Peter Altmaier told Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper, according to…
BBC: A 12-year-old boy has been found alive in the wreckage of a plane crash which killed eight people in Indonesia. Photos from the scene show the boy conscious and looking at the camera. He was found with the wreckage on a mountainside near the border with Papua New Guinea on Sunday morning. The Swiss-made…
Reuters: Washington was bracing for a white nationalist rally on Sunday organized to coincide with the anniversary of last year’s racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The “Unite the Right 2” event was scheduled to take place at 5:30 p.m. (2130 GMT) in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. Several counterprotests have…
M Humayun Kabir: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said the international conspirators who were behind the massacre of August 15, 1975 are still active. He was speaking as the chief guest at a discussion session on National Mourning Day organised by the district Awami League’s south chapter. He also said foreigners have questioned the…
Anadolu Agency: At least 32 people were killed in an explosion in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province on Sunday, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency. The blast took place in Sarmada district, where civilians displaced from the northern Homs province live, White Helmets director in Idlib Mustafa Haj Youssef told Anadolu Agency. He said…
BBC: A theme park in France is set to deploy six “intelligent” birds to pick up rubbish and spruce up the grounds. The rooks at the Puy du Fou theme park in the west of the country have been taught to collect cigarette ends and other small bits of rubbish. They then deposit the litter…