40 injured as Jamaat, police clash in B’desh
Dhaka: Members of Jamaat-e-Islami on Tuesday exploded crude bombs and clashed with police, leaving at least 40 people injured, as they tried to enforce a 48-hour countrywide shutdown to protest a court verdict that banned the right-wing party from contesting future elections. Police had to fire rubber bullets and teargas canisters to disperse the unruly activists. The protesters exploded 15 cocktail bombs in Rajshahi, Barisal, Bogra and Chittagong and blocked different roads to observe the shutdown.
Nine killed in Iraq as oil pipeline bombed
Baghdad: Attacks in Iraq killed nine people including three police on Tuesday, while militants bombed a major pipeline carrying oil to Turkey, halting exports, officials said. The attacks are the latest in a surge in violence that security forces have failed to curb, despite carrying out major operations against militants said to have resulted in scores of arrests, including 82 on Monday.
‘INS Vikrant not to trigger India-China arms race’
Beijing: Acknowledging that India has taken a lead over China in launching an indigenously built aircraft carrier, State media here on Tuesday said INS Vikrant would not lead to Sino-Indian arms race nor it would “create any waves” for cooperation between the two countries. "China is a late comer among big powers in terms of developing domestic aircraft carriers. Even India has moved ahead of us,” an editorial in the State-run Global Times said, making a strong case for Chinese military to develop aircraft carriers to add to the first one launched last year.
‘India, Pak need more steps to improve trust’
Washington: Expressing concern about recent violence along the line of Control, the United States have said India and Pakistan need to keep taking steps to improve trust and improve their relationship. “We're aware of these reports and are concerned about any violence, as we always are along the line of Control, and we continue to press and hope that India and Pakistan will continue the steps they have recently taken to improve their bilateral relations," the State Department
spokesperson, Marie Harf said on Monday.
US expresses concern on Israeli settlements
Washington: The United States said on Tuesday that it had expressed "serious concerns" over Israel's decision to allow settlers to continue building on Palestinian land despite new peace talks.Israel plans to issue tenders for 1,000 new housing units in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, in the face of anger from Palestinian negotiators.
Missing Chinese suspects in Kabul attack
Beijing: Investigations into last week's attack on Chinese nationals in Afghanistan took a new turn on Tuesday with reports saying that two abducted Chinese were suspected to have been involved in the incident in which four people were killed. Afghan officials have said the two Chinese men who were reportedly abducted in a recent raid in Afghanistan were involved in the plot, state-run Global Times reported. Three Chinese nationals including two women and a local person was killed in the attack last week.
Boston mob kingpin Bulger convicted of murder
Boston(Massachusetts): Jurors on Tuesday convicted Boston underworld kingpin and reputed FBI informant James "Whitey" Bulger on a raft of murder and other criminal charges, local media reported. His lawyers said he would appeal the verdict. After five days of deliberations, the jury of four women and eight men found Bulger guilty of all but one of the 32 counts he faced.
Sikhs seek trial of Sukhbir Badal in Canada
Washington: Having failed multiple time to nail his father in the US, North American Sikh groups have now announced to seek prosecution of Sukhbir Singh Badal in a Canadian court for an alleged human rights violations case.
Nikki Haley announces re-election campaign
Washington: Indian-American Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley on Tuesday announced that she would run for the post again. She will formally launch her re-election campaign on August 26, which will be attended by a host of top Republican leaders including louisiana's Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal. Jindal and Haley — both Republican — are the first two Indian American governors in US.
toll rises to 19 in Argentina building blast
Buenos Aires: The discovery of a woman's body raises the death toll to 19 in a blast that levelled an apartment building in Argentina last week, an official said. leonardo Caruana, Health Minister for the city of Rosario, said on Monday that two people still remain missing in the accident that destroyed the building after a gas leak.