Monday, 13 Jan, 2025

International

‘Israel is more barbaric than Hitler’

DHAKA: Turkey’s prime minister has accused Israel of ‘barbarism that surpasses Hitler’ during its ground invasion of Gaza. Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the comment during a campaign speech in the Black Sea port city of Ordu, reports independent.co.uk. He is running for the presidency

Islamists mount ‘heaviest’ assault on Libya airport

DHAKA: Islamist militia launched their heaviest assault so far on Libya’s main airport on Sunday, two days after a truce with the rival ex-rebels that control it collapsed. A security official said, reports The Straits Times. ‘The airport was attacked this morning with mortar

MAS releases full list of passengers

DHAKA: Excerpt of latest media statement from Malaysia Airlines on downing of MH17: The latest number of passengers and their nationalities of those onboard MH17, as of July, 19 2014: Netherlands: 192 (including one dual Netherlands/US citizen) Malaysia: 44 (including 15 crew members

Philippine typhoon death toll nears 100

DHAKA: The death toll from Typhoon Rammasun in the Philippines rose to 94, with six missing, as another storm brought rains to the ravaged areas.Philippines authorities said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The reports of fatalities came in as repairmen struggled to restore

‘Part time’ students’ hope dashed down in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: Several hundreds of Bangladeshi students have been facing embarrassing situation being allured of ‘part time’ job facilities.Recently a number of Bangladeshi students have raised this allegation.A Bangladeshi student Saklain (not real name) of Kalayanpur, Dhaka has

73 children killed in Israeli terror attack

DHAKA: At least 73 children killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip. The spiraling number of children killed in the latest conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza has raised international concern.On Saturday, a group of international and Palestinian rights

US widow wins $23.6bn tobacco payout

DHAKA: A Florida jury has awarded the widow of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer punitive damages of more than $23 bn in her lawsuit against the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the nation's second-biggest cigarette maker.The judgment, returned on Friday night, was the largest in

Cameron in Russia sanctions warning

DHAKA: Tougher EU sanctions against Russia will be needed if Moscow does not change its "approach" to the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine, David Cameron has indicated.Amid claims Russia-backed rebels were involved, the prime minister said the EU should stand up for

Bombings kill 27 in Iraq

DHAKA: A series of bombings, including three over a span of less than 10 minutes, have killed at least 27 people across the Iraqi capital, aljazeera reports.The attacks on Saturday were among the most significant in Baghdad since fighters led by the Islamic State group captured

Israel to expand ground incursion

DHAKA: The battle between Israel and Gazan militants is growing, as the Israel Defense Forces announced early Sunday that it will expand its ground offensive.On Saturday, Hamas Islamist fighters infiltrated nearby parts of Israel via underground tunnels and clashed with Israeli

Ukraine PM blams Russia for downed MH17

DHAKA: It takes professionals to shoot down an airliner and not a group of ‘drunken gorillas’, Ukrainian prime minister Arseny Yatseniuk told a German newspaper on Saturday, claiming that Russia was behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH-17. ‘Very professional staff is needed

‘Russia not providing enough support’

DHAKA: Britain on Saturday said Russia was not exerting enough influence over pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine to get them to allow international access to the Malaysian plane crash site. Britain foreign secretary Philip Hammond said it seemed increasingly likely that

Iraq president home after 18-month convalescence

DHAKA: Iraqi president Jalal Talabani flew back to his Kurdish fiefdom of Sulaimaniyah on Saturday after more than 18 months in Germany for medical treatment. Sources in his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said, reports The Straits Times. The 80-year-old head of state arrived on a private

Indian police kill Kashmiri teen in anti-Israel protest

DHAKA: Police shot dead a teenage boy on Saturday in restive Indian Kashmir during a protest against Israel's military offensive against Gaza. India officials said, reports The Straits Times. The youngster’s death marked the first fatality in a string of demonstrations across the

‘Failure to secure crash site a betrayal of lives lost’

DHAKA: Malaysia on Saturday said vital evidence at the Ukrainian site where flight MH17 went down had been tampered with, calling it a ‘betrayal’ of the lives lost in the disaster. ‘The integrity of the site has been compromised, and there are indications that vital evidence has

Dutch police collect DNA from MH17 victim families

DHAKA: Dutch police on Saturday sent teams to visit relatives of those killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine to collect DNA and other data to help identify the dead. ‘We sent out 80 investigators this morning, working in pairs, to visit 40 addresses,’ national police

Indian protesters demand arrests in child rape case

DHAKA: Thousands of demonstrators marched Saturday to demand arrests in the case of a six-year-old girl allegedly raped in a school in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. Two staff members at the private school are accused of the rape on July 2, the latest in a string of sexual

Isis kills 270 in Syrian gas field ‘massacre’

DHAKA: Islamist militants have killed 270 Syrian regime fighters, civilian security guards and employees since seizing a gas field in Homs province. A monitoring group said Saturday, reports gulfnews.com. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described Thursday’s takeover of the

UK records 1,300 lightning strikes in 3 hours

DHAKA: No one does special effects quite like Mother Nature — and right now she is treating Britain to the daddy of all lightning storms. In one of the most breathtaking displays in living memory, the heavens are being torn open by dazzling bolts of lightning. Crazy patterns form in

Ban Ki-moon heads to ME

DHAKA: Fresh Israeli air strikes killed 11 people in Gaza on Saturday, hiking the death toll above 300 as UN chief Ban Ki-moon headed to the region to bolster truce efforts. The new peace push came as Israel's campaign against the besieged Palestinian territory entered day 12 in the