Christian family attacked in B’desh
Dhaka: A Christian family in Bangladesh was on Tuesday attacked by unidentified miscreants who hurled crude bombs at their house, injuring at least two people, amid growing incidents of deadly assaults on minorities in the country.
11 Taliban militants given death penalty
Islamabad: Eleven “hardcore” Pakistani Taliban militants have been handed down the death penalty by military courts for committing heinous terror offences and the Army chief on Tuesday confirmed their sentences, the military said.
Cessation of hostilities to be announced soon
Moscow: Cessation of hostilities in the Syrian city of Aleppo will be announced in the coming hours, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey lavrov said on Tuesday after talks with UN envoy to Syria, Staffan da Mistura.
No military solution to Afghan conflict: Pakistan
Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday opposed a military option to resolve the dragging Afghan conflict, saying such a policy had not brought results for 14 long years.
Japan to lease military aircraft to Philippines
Tokyo: Japan will lease military aircraft to the Philippines in another sign of deepening security ties between the two former foes to counter Beijing’s increasing regional influence.
teachers, politicians in New hit-list in B’desh
Dhaka: A new hit-list naming 10 people, including the head of a university and ruling party officials, have been released by a Bangladeshi extremist outfit amid a series of gruesome murders of secular bloggers and intellectuals in the Muslim-majority country.
German ‘house of horrors’ couple tortured, 2 killed
Berlin: A German couple lured women to their village home with personal contact ads, then trapped, tortured and killed at least two of them, authorities said on Tuesday. Police said they were not ruling out more deaths from what one newspaper dubbed the “house of horrors”, where one woman’s body was cut up and burnt in the fireplace.
Nepal revokes Canadian’s visa
Kathmandu: Nepal on Tuesday revoked the visa of Canadian national Robert Penner who was arrested for allegedly posting provocative and anti-national comments on social media and visa violations. Penner, who tweeted in favour of the Madhes movement and also on the arrest of veteran journalist Kanak Mani Dixit, has been charged with spreading messages through social media, disturbing social harmony in the country.