DHAKA: Bangladesh’s highest court on Thursday upheld a death sentence against a top Islamist leader for war crimes in a move that lawyers said meant he would almost certainly be executed in the coming months.A.T.M. Azharul Islam, a stalwart of fundamentalist opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami, was sentenced to death in 2014 for rape, murder and genocide…
MULTAN, Pakistan: A massive fire caused by a cooking gas stove erupted Thursday on a train traveling in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, killing at least 74 passengers, officials said.Flames roared through the train cars as the train approached the town of Liaquatpur in Punjab, they said, the latest tragedy to hit Pakistan’s dilapidated, poorly maintained and…
RIYADH: President Jair M. Bolsonaro is sticking to his guns, and his controversial comments surrounding the widely reported forest fires in his country, claiming they were blown out of proportion. “At times, certain countries use an environmental agenda or human rights agenda, which is precisely what happened against Brazil,” he said during a discussion panel…
RIYADH: President Jair M. Bolsonaro is sticking to his guns, and his controversial comments surrounding the widely reported forest fires in his country, claiming they were blown out of proportion. “At times, certain countries use an environmental agenda or human rights agenda, which is precisely what happened against Brazil,” he said during a discussion panel…
NEW DELHI: Some doctors and residents urged New Delhi authorities to shut schools and cancel outdoor sporting events in the Indian capital as air pollution remained at the most severe level for the second day running on Wednesday.Farm fires raging in neighboring states have sent clouds of smoke floating over the city, trapped in a…
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s queen has cooked up the perfect recipe to spice up soured relations with Singapore – by making a popular dish for its premier. Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah has taken bilateral ties with the island city state to a tasty new level by cooking sambal (spicy Malaysian chili sauce) for its Prime Minister…
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s queen has cooked up the perfect recipe to spice up soured relations with Singapore – by making a popular dish for its premier. Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah has taken bilateral ties with the island city state to a tasty new level by cooking sambal (spicy Malaysian chili sauce) for its Prime Minister…
BERLIN: Germany’s economy minister fell badly as he left the stage Tuesday during an event at which he was due to present a European digital cloud project. Peter Altmaier tripped on the steps and appeared to fall head-first as he left the stage after giving a speech at the event in Dortmund. He lay on…
ROME: Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte did not know a deal he advised on before coming to office was linked to a Vatican-backed investment fund that is under investigation for possible corruption, his office said Monday. Lawyer Conte was hired in May 2018 to provide a legal opinion in favor of Fiber 4.0, a shareholder group…
ROME: Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte did not know a deal he advised on before coming to office was linked to a Vatican-backed investment fund that is under investigation for possible corruption, his office said Monday. Lawyer Conte was hired in May 2018 to provide a legal opinion in favor of Fiber 4.0, a shareholder group…
PARIS: Two people, aged 74 and 78, were seriously injured in the shooting at 1420 GMT on Monday as they tried to prevent the attacker from setting fire to the mosque in Bayonne in southwest France, police said, adding the suspected gunman has been arrested.The man was arrested near his home after the incident that also involved…
Pakistan ex-PM Nawaz Sharif moved from jail, stays in hospital /node/1574981/world Updated 27 October 2019 October 27, 2019 12:29 Pakistan ex-PM Nawaz Sharif moved from jail, stays in hospital Islamabad’s High Court Saturday granted temporary freedom to Sharif He served three times as prime minister Updated 27 October 2019 AP October 27, 2019 12:29 LAHORE:…
LAHORE: Pakistan’s ailing former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who was jailed on money-laundering and corruption charges, has remained in a government hospital where he was taken last week after suffering a heart attack.Maryam Aurangzeb, a spokesman for the ex-premier’s Muslim League party, says Sunday that Sharif’s health condition won’t allow for him to be moved…
NGHE AN, Vietnam: Dread mounted across Vietnam on Sunday as relatives of migrants feared to be among 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain revealed new heart-wrenching details of their last contact with their loved ones. The driver of the refrigerated trailer discovered in an industrial park on Wednesday has been charged with…
LAHORE: The Islamabad High Court on Saturday granted medical bail to jailed former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is serving a seven-year prison sentence after being convicted on corruption charges last year. Sharif was taken to a Lahore hospital on Monday where he was diagnosed with an immune system disorder. “The court has granted interim bail…
ALMATY, Kazakhstan: Police detained more than two dozen people on Saturday in Kazakhstan’s main cities for participating in protests called by a banned opposition group where they criticized the government and Chinese expansion. Officers detained around a dozen people and manhandled them into police vans in the center of Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty, AFP correspondents…
New Delhi: IAS officer Girish Chandra Murmu has been appointed the first lieutenant governor of the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir, an official statement released on Friday said.On Aug. 5, New Delhi abrogated Article 370 of the Indian constitution that gave a special autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir. The move also bifurcated…
LA PAZ: Bolivians blocked streets in La Paz on Friday demanding an audit of a controversial election count that handed President Evo Morales a outright win and with it a fourth consecutive term that would extend his rule to nearly two decades.Morales, 59, who swept to power in 2006 as the country’s first indigenous leader,…
MOSCOW: A Russian soldier on Friday opened fire on troops at a Siberian military base, killing eight and injuring two, officials said, blaming the attack on a possible “nervous breakdown.”The incident took place at an army base in the Chita region in eastern Siberia during a change of guard.“The serviceman who opened fire has been…
LONDON: European Union ambassadors agreed Friday that the bloc should grant Britain’s request for another extension to the Brexit deadline but they have not yet figured out how long that delay should be.Speaking Friday in Brussels after EU ambassadors met with the EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said ambassadors…
