Matthew caruana galizia, Andrew caruana galizia & Paul caruana galizia/ Project Syndicate While investigative journalists have joined forces to expose globalized crime and corruption, justice and law enforcement remain largely national. Law-enforcement authorities should follow journalism’s lead and urgently develop the sort of international networks that organized crime has perfected. The worldwide network that facilitates…
Srijana Mitra Das/Daily O, India Movie Name: Manto Director: Nandita Das Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Dugal, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Rishi Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Divya Dutta, Javed Akhtar U/A, 116 minutes So, Manto is perfect. Of course, Manto was perfect. The writer Sa’adat Hasan Manto was possibly the greatest literary genius the subcontinent ever produced –…
The Independent, UK: Eight years’ worth of undelivered letters and packages are finally arriving through Palestinian letterboxes after being held up by Israel on security grounds. Postal service workers at a sorting centre in Jericho in the occupied West Bank have been working around the clock to sift through the backlog since around 10 tonnes…
UNB: The government has decided to import 100,000 tonnes of coal to meet emergency needs of Barapukuria coal-based power plant. State minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid revealed the decision while talking to the reporters at secretariat on Sunday, report local news agencies. Nasrul said the authorities already completed the tender process…
Al Arabiya: An Israeli envoy has visited the Qatari capital of Doha in recent days to obtain Qatari funds for a deal to be finalized between Hamas and Israel, according to Israel’s Channel 2 in a report that did not give further details. Meanwhile, a delegation of Hamas leaders living abroad is visiting Gaza to…
Samiul Bashar Samin Anton Yelchin died Sunday morning in “fatal traffic collision,” his representative confirmed to EW. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office told PEOPLE that his body “was found pinned between a car and a gate at a home in Studio City, California” and that an exact cause of death will not be…
The Express Tribune: India on Sunday launched the world’s biggest health insurance scheme which Prime Minister Narendra Modi said would cover some 500 million poor people. The programme, dubbed ‘Modicare’, promises health cover worth INR500,000 ($6,900) to every poor family to treat serious ailments. The scheme is expected to cost the central and 29 state…
Dembe Bigombe,Kampala/Seven Billion Today In Africa, we don’t have a dedicated category for acid attacks when they are reported or filed by the police or courts. Instead, they are listed as domestic abuse cases. But acid attacks are so different. Acid attacks are catching on in popularity across the world.You may not have heard it,…
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…
Banglanews24: The depot for storing oil collected from vessels at ship-breaking yards at Fouzdarhat caught fire around 2pm Wednesday. Twelve fire-fighting trucks struggled to douse the flames, said Jashim Uddin, deputy assistant director of the Fire Service at Chittagong. The fire was eventually doused around 4pm. So far no casualties have been reported.