DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A local court in Bangladesh on Wednesday sentenced five members of a banned outfit to death for carrying out grenade attacks inside a naval base in the port city of Chattogram in 2015. The Chittagong Anti-Terrorism Tribunal awarded five members of the proscribed Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) death sentenc...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye and Israel will mutually reappoint ambassadors, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced on Wednesday. “The steps we would take to normalize relations include mutually reappointing of ambassadors … Türkiye decided to appoint an ambassador to Israel, to Tel Aviv,” he told a news conferenc...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – A top electoral body official in Indian-occupied Kashmir has said people from any part of India “living ordinarily” in the region are eligible to vote in the elections for the local assembly likely to be held next year. The decision, which makes tens of thousands of laborers, workers, employees, [...
Putrajaya, Malaysia (AFP): Malaysia’s highest court said Tuesday it would hear former leader Najib Razak’s final bid to overturn his 12-year jail sentence for corruption, with an acquittal potentially clearing the way for his return to power. The appeal is the last high stakes court gambit left open to Najib — but if he is [&...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Afghan university students will have to attend more compulsory Islamic studies classes, education officials said Tuesday while giving little sign that secondary schools for girls would reopen. “We are adding five more religious subjects to the existing eight,” said Abdul Baqi Haqqani, minister for higher e...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): The final results of a controversial referendum in Tunisia showed 94.6 percent of those who cast ballot favored the new constitution, the electoral authority said Tuesday. Voters overwhelmingly approved the new constitution, the electoral board said, officially announcing definitive results from the July 25 poll. The char...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A passenger flight from Malaysia was denied permission to land in Myanmar’s Yangon city on Tuesday morning. The flight later flew to Thailand, a media report claimed. Malaysia’s passenger flight MH740 flew from Kuala Lumpur to Yangon but was “denied permission to disembark at Yangon Airport”. The Malaysian flight hovered over t...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Police in Nigeria have confirmed the abduction of the commissioner for information, culture and tourism of the country’s central Nasarawa state. In a statement, Ramhan Nansel, the police spokesman, said that Lawal was abducted by gunmen on Monday evening. “On Monday … the attention of policemen on routine patrol was ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli naval forces have detained four Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip, according to a local official. Nizar Ayyash, head of the Palestinian Fishermen’s Syndicate in Gaza, said Israeli forces opened fire on two Palestinian boats and arrested the fishermen on board. No injuries were repor...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – The Azerbaijani army has discovered a minefield in the eastern Lachin region, according to the country’s Defense Ministry. The army’s engineering units detected over 900 anti-personnel mines while conducting terrain reconnaissance in the “northwestern direction of the Saribaba high ground,” a ministry statement sa...
