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DHAKA: Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has changed his mind and will not fight extradition from Belgium to France. Quoting his lawyer says, BBC reports the matter on Thursday. Salah Abdeslam is one of the key suspects in November’s Paris attacks which left 130 people dead.
DHAKA: A key suspect in the attacks in Brussels has been arrested, Belgian media say, quoting judicial sources.Najim Laachraoui, thought to be the man on the right in a CCTV image taken before the Zaventem airport attack, was detained in the Anderlecht area.Two of the other attackers have
DHAKA: Two of the men who carried out attacks in Brussels on Tuesday have been named by Belgian media as the brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui.The RTBF broadcaster said the pair were known to police. It is believed at least one was among three suspects seen in a CCTV image at
DHAKA: Belgium is observing three days of mourning following bomb attacks in the capital Brussels that left 34 people dead and about 250 wounded.A minute’s silence for the victims will be held at midday (11:00 GMT).Police are continuing a huge manhunt for a suspect caught on CCTV
DHAKA: US presidential front-runners, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, have continued their winning streaks, taking Arizona.The issue of immigration loomed large in the south-western state, the biggest prize in the latest round of contests, reports the BBC.Polls
DHAKA: Cowering under desks and running for their lives, this is the terrifying moment passengers were caught up in a suicide bomb attack at Brussels Airport this morning in a series of blasts that have killed at least 34 people across the city.Witnesses described apocalyptic scenes with
DHAKA: At least 28 people have been killed and dozens injured in Brussels after a series of terror attacks struck the city’s airport and a metro station near the EU headquarters.Witnesses described apocalyptic scenes with blood and ‘dismembered bodies everywhere’ after two blasts
DHAKA: A series of attacks has struck Brussels airport and the metro system, causing at least 13 deaths.Belgian media say, reports the BBC.Two blasts tore through the departures area of Zaventem airport shortly after 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT).An hour later, explosions hit Maalbeek
DHAKA: Several people have been injured and hundreds are trapped after two explosions rocked Brussels Airport.Witnesses said they ‘felt the shockwaves’ of the blasts which are believed to have centered on the American Airlines check-in desk at 8am (7am GMT), reports
DHAKA: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has revealed the first members of his foreign policy team.The advisers include academics and former military officers with expertise on the Middle East and energy issues, reports the BBC.Trump told the Washington Post that he would
DHAKA: Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy (NLD) party won historic elections in Myanmar in November, has been given a place in the new cabinet.Her name was on a list of 18 cabinet members submitted to parliament by President-elect Htin Kyaw.The list contains only names,
DHAKA: Cuban President Raul Castro and US President Barack Obama sparred over human rights issues including the American prison at Guantanamo Bay and Cuba’s political prisoners.At a historic news conference, Castro said if he was given a list of political prisoners, he would “release
DHAKA: North Korea has fired several short-range missiles into the waters off its east coast.South Korea’s Yonhap news agency says, reports the BBC.The launches come three days after South Korea said the north fired a medium-range missile into the sea for the first time since
DHAKA: At least 13 people have been killed after a bus carrying foreign students crashed on a Spanish motorway between the cities of Barcelona and Valencia.Most of the 57 people on board the bus were students on the Erasmus program who were returning to Barcelona after a trip to a
DHAKA: A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 has struck off the east coast of Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East.No tsunami warnings, however, have been issued, reports bnonews.The earthquake, which struck at 6:50am local time on Monday, was centered about 235
DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has reached in Cuba for a historic visit to the island and talks with its communist leader.He is the first sitting US president to visit since the 1959 revolution, which heralded decades of hostility, reports the BBC.Speaking at the reopened US embassy in
DHAKA: Five people were killed and at least 20 others were injured in a suicide bomb attack on March 19 in central Istanbul, on the busy İstiklal Avenue in Taksim.The attack happened on Balo Street in front of the local governor’s office of Beyoğlu, and a through investigation has
DHAKA: At least 19 pilgrims were killed when their bus overturned in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).A Saudi medical official said, reports Al Jazeera.Red Crescent spokesman Khaled al-Sahli said the crash took place early on Saturday on a highway linking the two Saudi holy cities of Medina
DHAKA: An explosion at a major tourist shopping area in the Turkish city of Istanbul has injured a number of people.Turkish media say, reports the BBC.Pictures showed people running away in panic, with police and ambulance vehicles rushing to the scene.The area - Istiklal Street - is
DHAKA: The UN Security Council has strongly condemned the ‘unacceptable’ recent ballistic missile launches by North Korea.In an unanimous statement, it said the launches ‘constituted a clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions’, reports the BBC.It comes after the North