DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A UN fact-finding team will visit Bangladesh next week to set up a probe of hundreds of deaths during recent student-led protests which led the prime minister to step down, UN officials have announced. An independent inquiry commission will be funded and led by the UN, said Gwyn Lewis, the UN […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A case has been filed against Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, eight members of her now-dissolved cabinet and police officers on charges of “crimes against humanity” and “genocide,” according to an official. The case was filed at the local International Crimes Tribun...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named as a suspect in a murder case, related to the killing of a grocery store owner in a police firing incident on July 19. This is the first murder case filed against Hasina, who fled to neighboring India on August 5. The […]
A 32-year-old man was arrested in the UK after allegedly stabbing an 11-year-old girl, leaving her with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Police confirmed that the incident took place in London’s busy Leicester Square. A 29-year-old security guard named Abdullah intervened, tackling the attacker and disarming him before police arrive...
A California man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. It is one of the longest sentences given in connection with the violent incident. A statement on Friday by the US Capitol Police noted David Nicholas Dempsey had pleaded guilty in January […]
New Delhi, India — AFP Doctors in government hospitals across several states of India halted elective services “indefinitely” on Monday in protest against the rape and murder of a young medic. The 31-year-old woman’s brutalised body was found bearing multiple injuries last week in a state-run hospital in West BengalR...
London, United Kingdom — AFP A UK minister has slammed American tech billionaire Elon Musk for his “unacceptable” comments on social media about far-right riots gripping England and Northern Ireland. The owner of X drew criticism for writing on the site that a British “civil war” was inevitable. He sparked further...
LONDON (AA) – A man in his 30s was arrested in Manchester after allegedly chasing a Muslim couple with a hedge trimmer, police said on Wednesday. A video circulated on social media on Tuesday shows a man chasing a couple with a hedge trimmer. Documenting Oppression Against Muslims (DOAM) group shared the video, saying a […]
HAMILTON, Canada (AA)- A Pakistani national has been charged with murder-for-hire in an alleged plot to assassinate current and former government officials, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday. Asif Merchant, 46, arrived from Pakistan in April after spending time in Iran. He met an undercover FBI agent posing as a hitman and paid him $...
South Carolina’s Supreme Court has confirmed that the state can execute death row inmates using a firing squad, lethal injection, or the electric chair. This paves the way for executions to resume after a 13-year hiatus. The ruling, which was delivered Wednesday, supports the state’s revised death penalty protocols. These include the new...
