Saturday, 18 Jan, 2025

International

3 killed, over 100 injured in S Korea apartment fire

DHAKA: Three people were killed and more than 100 injured in a fire that swept through an apartment building north of Seoul on Saturday.Firefighters said reports The Straits Times.The death toll from the blaze at Euijeongbu City could rise as seven of the injured were in critical

Tail of plane lifted off seabed

DHAKA: The tail of an Indonesia AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea was lifted to the surface on Saturday.Floating balloons were used to lift the tail – the biggest part of the plane’s wreckage found since the crash of flight QZ8501 on December 28, a media photographer and

India blocks social media posts with Charlie Hebdo cartoons

DHAKA: Following a series of terror strikes in France, the India’s Mumbai Police has blocked hundreds of posts on social media which replicate the controversial cartoons of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, sources reveal.Ever since it became clear that the attacks which began

Boko Haram massacre toll possibly 2,000

DHAKA: Hundreds of bodies remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria amid an ongoing attack described by Amnesty International as the "deadliest massacre" by Boko Haram.Mike Omeri, the government spokesman, said fighting continued on Friday for Baga, a town on the border with Chad where

Bloody end to sieges in France

DHAKA: Two sieges in France have been brought to a bloody end, with three gunmen and four hostages killed.Two brothers who killed 12 in an attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine on Wednesday were shot dead as they fled a warehouse north of Paris, firing at police.Shortly afterwards in

7 militants killed in Pakistan as explosives blasted

DHAKA: At least seven militants were killed inside their hideout on Friday in a high-intensity explosion in Pakistan’s restive tribal region, officials said. The blast occurred in a compound in Sundana Teera area of Khyber, one of the seven tribal districts in the country, where

Official denies reports one killed in Paris shootout

DHAKA: The Paris prosecutor has denied reports that at least one person had been killed in a shootout preceding a hostage-taking in a town north-east of Paris. Police have cordoned off the town of Dammartin-en-Goele where the two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo killings had been identified

Boko Haram ‘kills hundreds’ in Nigeria raids

DHAKA: Boko Haram fighters are reported to have killed hundreds of people in a renewed assault after capturing a key town and military base in northeast Nigeria at the weekend.The local officials have said that which report the Al Jazeera.The group’s fighters initially captured the

Sirisena set to be Sri Lanka's new president

DHAKA: Maithripala Sirisena is expected to be sworn in as Sri Lanka's new president, an opposition spokesman said, after the incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa, conceded defeat in a bitterly contested election. "The swearing in will be at 6:00pm local time today at Independence Square" in

Pings detected in AirAsia black box search

DHAKA: Indonesia search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet have detected pings in their efforts to find the black box recorders, Santoso Sayogo, said an investigator at the National Transportation Safety Committee.Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501

Rajapaksa 'concedes defeat'

DHAKA: Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday conceded defeat in Sri Lanka’s presidential election.The counting of votes, however, so far showed looks set to be won by opposition challenger Mithripala Sirisena, reports The Guardian.“The president conceded defeat at a meeting with opposition

Pakistan’s Imran Khan weds TV journalist

DHAKA: Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan wed a TV journalist in a simple ceremony at his Islamabad home Thursday, ending years of speculation surrounding the former playboy cricketer widely considered his country’s most eligible man.Imran Khan, who is 62 and the father of two sons

Crashed jet’s tail may be raised on Friday

DHAKA: Indonesian search and rescue teams plan to start lifting the crashed AirAsia jet’s tail off the sea bed on Friday, officials said, raising hopes that ‘black box’ recorders can be retrieved to reveal the cause of the disaster.Scores of divers plunged into the Java Sea on

HK protest leader slams authorities in court

DHAKA: The teenage face of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, 18-year-old Joshua Wong, slammed the authorities Thursday in a court appearance linked to mass protests which brought parts of the city to a standstill for months. Wong was one of 29 activists at the High Court for a

Kidnapped Pakistan Air Force officer killed

DHAKA: The bullet-riddled body of a kidnapped Pakistan Air Force officer was found in Balochistan province. Media reported on Thursday, says NDTV. The officer was kidnapped along with four others on January 4 from an area between provincial capital Quetta and Zhob district while they

France observes minute of silence honoring victims

DHAKA: France observed a minute of silence Thursday, broken only by church bells, in honour of the 12 people killed by extremists at a magazine known for publishing cartoons deemed offensive to Islam. At midday (local time), crowds of people stood silently in public squares, schools and

Fresh firing in Paris, policewoman dead

DHAKA: A policewoman was killed and a city employee was seriously hurt on Thursday after a man opened fire with an automatic rifle outside Paris, police said, but no link has yet been established with Wednesday’s deadly attack on a satirical magazine.The gunman is still on the run,

IS police kidnapped in Syria

DHAKA: Reports from Syria say that some members of the religious police force set up by the militant group Islamic State (IS) have been kidnapped.Activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they had been ambushed and abducted by unknown gunmen in the eastern city of

France begins national day of mourning

DHAKA: A stunned and outraged France began a national day of mourning on Thursday, as security forces desperately hunted two brothers suspected of gunning down 12 people in an Islamist assault on a satirical weekly, the country’s bloodiest attack in half a century.The massacre triggered

2 Saudis facing jail after deliberately running over stray dog

DHAKA: Two Saudi men are facing jail after they were convicted of deliberately driving over a stray dog ten times until it was dead - and filming the despicable act of cruelty.In the footage, which quickly went viral on social media, one of the men is seen driving a 4x4 vehicle in an