Sri lanka to release 104 Indian fishermen
Colombo: In a goodwill gesture ahead of the Pongal festival, Sri lanka on Thursday decided to release 104 Indian fishermen arrested by the country’s navy for allegedly poaching in the country’s territorial waters. In view of the Thai Pongal festival, Sri lanka will release all the Indian fishermen on Friday, the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources said.
Dutch to look into new MH17 evidence
Moscow: Russian aviation officials say they have uncovered new evidence about the 2014 downing of a Malaysian jet over eastern Ukraine and are asking Dutch investigators to look into the findings.
26/11: Pak rejects plea to examine boat
Islamabad: The Pakistani anti-terrorism court hearing the 2008 Mumbai attack case has rejected the prosecution’s plea to form a commission to examine the boat used by the 10 leT terrorists to reach the Indian coast.
French jets strike ISIS comms centre in Iraq
Paris: French warplanes bombed an ISIS communications hub near Mosul in northern Iraq overnight, Defence Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said on Thursday. “last night we bombed a Daesh telecommunications centre, a propaganda centre, near Mosul,” le Drian told BFMTV, using an Arabic acronym for the ISIS jihadists. “We have struck seven times since Monday,” le Drian said of the French bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria.
US slaps sanctions on Af-Pak based ISIS
Washington: The US on Thursday designated an Af-Pak based group linked to the ISIS as a foreign terrorist organisation, slapping a series of sanctions on the outfit and its leaders who are mainly former members of the Pakistani Taliban and the Afghan Taliban.
‘World’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak over’
Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Thursday that the Ebola epidemic that has ravaged west Africa for two years was over after liberia, the last affected country, received the all-clear. “Today the World Health Organisation declares the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease in liberia and says all known chains of transmission have been stopped in West Africa,” the UN health agency said.