Dhaka: Bangladesh police were set to file charges on Wednesday against 16 people, including the headmaster of a seminary, over the shocking murder of a 19-year-old girl burned to death. The killing of Nusrat Jahan Rafi last month sparked protests across the South Asian nation, with the prime minister promising to prosecute all those involved. […]
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India’s influential but ailing finance minister Arun Jaitley announced on Wednesday that he would not serve in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new Hindu nationalist government because of poor health. Modi is set to be sworn in on Thursday after winning a second landslide election and should name his new cabinet shortly after. Jaitley, 66, a […]
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Boris Johnson, the favourite to replace Theresa May as British prime minister, must appear in court over allegations he lied to the public about Brexit, a judge ruled on Wednesday. The judge at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court ruled that Johnson, the former foreign secretary and ex-London mayor, must answer a private summons alleging he had […]
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US National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Wednesday that Iran was almost certainly behind oil tanker attacks that sent Gulf tensions soaring — an accusation Tehran dismissed as “laughable”. The new war of words came on the eve of emergency Arab and Gulf summits called by Iran’s regional rival Saudi Arabia to discuss the […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MOREPattani: Two people, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed in a market place bombing in Thailand´s Muslim-majority south, a military spokesman said Tuesday. Thailand´s three southernmost provinces, Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, have since 2004 been plagued with conflict between ethnic Malay-Muslim rebels and the Buddhist-majority Thai state, which annexed the region around a century ago. […]
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San Francisco: Facebook´s efforts to crack down on misinformation and sensational content have reduced the time spent at the leading social network eroding, researchers said Tuesday. The average amount of time US adults spent at Facebook dropped by three minutes per day last year and will likely decrease by another minute next year, to a […]
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Tehran: Iran´s foreign ministry on Tuesday insisted it did not currently see the need for mediation with the United States, as it played down the chances of a military clash with Washington. Spokesman Abbas Mousavi told a press conference that Tehran “does not feel any tension or (the possibility of) clashes” and said concerns had […]
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BEIJING: China Tuesday said its position on the question of Palestine was clear and consistent and asked the international community to keep up efforts to promote peace and ensure that voice and proposition of parties concerned, especially Palestine, were heeded. “The Chinese government’s position on the question of Palestine is clear and consistent,” Chinese foreign […]
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised his nationalist party’s courage on Monday amid political clashes and killings after his latest landslide election triumph. Three workers from Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party have been killed and there have been pitched battles between BJP activists and a rival regional party in West Bengal state since Modi secured […]
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Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates and one of the soldiers told Reuters. The soldiers were freed in November last year, the two inmates said, meaning they […]
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