Reuters: A city councilor in The Hague and member of the anti-immigrant Freedom Party has taken her own life, hours after posting a video on Facebook in which she claimed she was gang-raped by Muslims as part of an intimidation campaign. Willie Dille, 53, reportedly ended h ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: Yemen’s Houthi group welcomed on Friday a call by the United Nations for an independent investigation into Saudi-led coalition air strikes that killed dozens of people a day earlier, including children traveling on a bus. “We welcome the call of the secretary g ...বিস্তারিত
Russia Today: After it emerged that the former president Juan Manuel Santos recognized Palestine as an independent state just before leaving office, Colombia’s new government has pledged to “cautiously” review the decision and its implications. Palestine was described ...বিস্তারিত
The Hill: A police chief in California said he was “disgusted” when he learned that his 18-year-old son was arrested in connection with the beating of a 71-year-old Sikh man. Darryl McAllister, police chief of Union City, revealed on the department’s Facebook page Wed ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: European shares dipped on Thursday as corporate earnings triggered sharp price swings and failed to dispel worries over China-U.S. trade tensions and new sanctions against Russia. At 0914 GMT, the pan-European STOXX 600 index was down 0.2 percent, with heavy losses ...বিস্তারিত
BSS: The government has decided to make Barapukuria coal-fired power plant functional during the Eid-ul-Azha aimed at supplying electricity to northern region smoothly. “Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) wants to keep uninterrupted power supply during the Eid in no ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday progress on denuclearization promises made in a historic US-N.Korea summit in June cannot be expected if the United States adheres to “old scenarios” that have failed. The state-run KCNA carried a statement from ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: President Salva Kiir granted a general amnesty to rebels in South Sudan’s civil war, including his former deputy Riek Machar, as a rights organization said authorities in Africa’s youngest country should also free its unarmed critics. The amnesty order was read ...বিস্তারিত
Sayeed Muhammad: Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) President Saiful Islam has said that Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal cannot avoid his responsibility for the fact that those attacking media professionals during the students’ movement for safe roads, roam free. “If the ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: China will prosecute a former official who was “obsessed with divination” for corruption, the top graft-buster said on Thursday, in the latest warning to bureaucrats not to engage with what the Communist Party views as superstition. Wu Dehua, who worked in the ...বিস্তারিত
