VOA News: Russia is allowing thousands of fresh North Korean laborers into the country and granting new work permits in potential violation of U.N. sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. More than 10,000 new North Korean workers have registered in Russia since September, the paper said, citing records from the Russian Interior Ministry. Russia’s…
Reuters: China has asked Sweden to extradite a man who is being held near Stockholm on suspicion of gross fraud and embezzlement, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said. The authority’s spokes woman Karin Rosander declined to name the man sought by China but said police arrested him on June 25 and he was being detained in…
Kabir Humayun: Amid the ongoing student movement demanding safety on roads, a motorcyclist was run over by a bus in city’s Moghbazar area yesterday afternoon. Angered by the accident, a mob torched the killer bus, reports Observer. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam Rana, 23, hailed from Swarupkathi upazila of Pirojpur.Rana worked at Moghbazar…
The Guardian, UK: US counter-intelligence investigators discovered a suspected Russian spy had been working undetected in the heart of the American embassy in Moscow for more than a decade, the Guardian has learned. The Russian national had been hired by the US Secret Service and is understood to have had access to the agency’s intranet…
With the demise of Financial Express Editor Moazzem Hossain, Bangladesh has lost a great professional journalist, who served the country’s print media for about four decades. Before he fell ill and was taken to Singapore for treatment more than a month ago, he had been glued to his desk toiling more than 16 hours a…
Reuters: India has asked Britain to extradite billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi, one of the main accused in the $2 billion loan fraud at state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB). Modi’s whereabouts have been unknown since PNB in January said that two jewelery groups headed by Modi and his uncle, Mehul Choksi, defrauded the bank for years…
The Guardian, UK: Japan’s governing party has belatedly distanced itself from an MP who described members of the LGBT community as “unproductive” because they cannot have children. Mio Sugita, a lower house member of the Liberal Democratic party (LDP), sparked widespread criticism after she challenged the use of taxpayers’ money to support same-sex marriages in…
Kabir Humayun: The families of eight victims of the US-Bangla airplane crash in Nepal are finally going to receive compensation from the insurer on August 6. The maximum amount to be given to a victim is 53,500 US dollars, which was determined in line with the Warsaw Convention, said officials concerned.”Compensation for eight victims of…
Reuters: An Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is likely spread over tens of kilometres and poses a high regional risk given its proximity to borders, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Thursday. Four people have tested positive for Ebola in and around Mangina, a town of about 60,000 people in…
BSS: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) yesterday said some vicious circles were circulating false news in the name of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina against the backdrop of tender age students’ movement for safe road. “Some vicious circles are publishing various distorted, false and fabricated news intentionally in the name of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through…