Sifting through the thousands of documents strewn across the floors of an abandoned secret police headquarters in Chad, Reed Brody glimpsed the violent, final moments of Rose Lokissim’s brave life.
Day: August 10, 2013
No amnesty for Thailand rights abusers: HRW
New York – A proposed amnesty law before Thailand’s parliament should exclude people who ordered or carried out human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. The Thai government should affirm that prosecuting those responsible for rights abuses, regardless of…
US embassies to reopen after alert
DHAKA – US embassies and consulates that were closed in the Middle East and Africa because of a terrorist threat will reopen on Sunday.
Leveling the Afghan playing field
– Graciana del Castillo
Cops among 100 injured in B’baria clash over fair
B’BARIA: Over 100 people including two police constables were injured in hours-long clash over trifling matter in Gokorno Bazar of district municipality area Saturday.
Black Caps confirm Bangladesh tour going ahead
By: Elliott Smith
‘Revoke clearance on Tipaimukh – Dhaka don’t compromise’
Imphal – A discussion session on the proposed construction of Tipaimukh Dam organised under the aegis of United NGOs Mission-Minipur (UNM-M) at Manipur Press Club here on August 8 unanimously resolved to press the concerned authority to reconsider and revoke…
Vietnam: ‘Jungle Men’ found hiding from war
A father and son have been found living in the jungle more than 40 years after they fled US bombing during the Vietnam War.
Nagasaki bombing remembered on 68th anniversary
The Japanese port city of Nagasaki observed the 68th anniversary of the dropping of the second and last atomic bomb ever used in warfare by pushing the Japanese government to increase its efforts to promote the elimination on nuclear weapons.…
Obama proposes surveillance-policy overhaul
WASHINGTON—In a striking policy shift that ensured the rancorous spy-policy debate would extend into the fall, President Barack Obama announced plans to overhaul key parts the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs.
US panel orders import ban on some Samsung devices
By BRENT KENDALL and DON CLARK
Apple patent wins could mean US import ban for Samsung
By Ros Krasny and Alina Selyukh
Yorkshire beat Bangladesh A by 7 runs
Yorkshire 198 (Plunkett 47*, Sunny 3-25) beat Bangladesh A 191 (Anamul 69, Rafiq 5-30) by 7 runs
Saudi police arrest 2 suspected al-Qaida militants
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry says police have arrested two foreign residents suspected of having contacts with al-Qaida’s offshoot in Yemen over imminent suicide attacks in the region.
Gunmen kill 6 in attack on politician in Pakistan
QUETTA — Gunmen shot to death six people and wounded 15 in an attack on a former provincial minister outside a mosque in southwest Pakistan on Friday, police said.
Philippines says 23 rebels killed in a month
MANILA — The Philippine military says it killed three communist rebels in a clash in a province north of the capital, bringing the number of guerrillas who have died in combat in the past month to 23.
Spain to review train speeds after deadly crash
MADRID — Spain will review speed limits and security systems throughout its rail network to avoid a repeat of a train crash that killed 79 people last month, a government minister said Friday.
Fakhruddin, Moeen join Eid prayers in US
Former caretaker government mandarins Fakhruddin Ahmed and General Moeen U Ahmed spent Eid-ul-Fitr with other Bangladeshi expatriates in the United States on Thursday.
Father, son drown in Munshiganj
MUNSHIGANJ: A father and his son were drowned in Ichhamati River at Sirajdikhan upazila in the district on Friday morning.
Scuffle at Eid congregation
The Eid-ul-Fitr prayers did not start well in Gazipur as two groups of devotees fought over who would lead the congregation, police say.
Celebration turns into mourning
Seven-year-old ‘Nahid’ will not return home to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with his family.
2 killed in Comilla road crash
Comilla – Two people were killed and eight others injured as a microbus they were travelling in overturned at Minsar in Burichang upazila on Friday noon.
3 of a family drown in Pabna
Dhaka – Three children of a family drowned in a water body at Khalilpur village in Sujanagar upazila of Pabna district on Friday morning.
Man chopped to death in C’ nawabganj
Chapainawabganj – A man was chopped to death by unknown miscreants in Barogharia area of Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila on Saturday night.
Test popularity in polls under non-party govt: Khaleda Zia
Dhaka – BNP chairperson and opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Friday asked the government to call the national election under a non-party and neutral caretaker government immediately to test its popularity instead of expending ‘public money’ in the electoral campaign.
PM seeks reelection, urges all to cast votes judiciously
Dhaka – Seeking people’s support for her party’s reelection, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged all to judiciously cast their votes in favour of honest, patriot and pro-development candidates in the next general election.
Hijacking Billboards won’t do any good: Ershad
The Jatiya Party Chairman has accused the ruling Awami League of ‘hijacking’ Dhaka’s billboards to highlight the government’s various achievements with the next Parliament election just around the corner.
Nafis begs for leniency, gets 30 years
A federal judge Friday sentenced Quazi Mohammad Nafis, 22, to 30 years in prison for plotting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve building after hearing the Bangladeshi man beg for leniency, saying he had been friendless and led…
Chernobyl’s legacy recorded in trees
By Mark Kinver