Berlin, Germany will send up to 650 soldiers to Mali for peacekeeping missions, including support in the fight against the Islamic State terrorist group, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. The announcement came less than two weeks after the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and less than one week […]
Hindus have welcomed the idea of “prayer room” at Fiji’s main airport and regional hub for South Pacific, Nadi International Airport. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that having a “prayer room” at the airport would be a step in the positive direction. It would help infuse spirituality into […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh executed two political leaders, convicted of war crimes during the country’s independence war in 1971, amid tight security early on Sunday. Bangladesh’s war crimes tribunals had found the two guilty of collaborating with Pakistani forces and committing crimes, including mass killings. The executions of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party […]
Paris, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the bloody Paris terror attacks, was killed in a police raid a day earlier, the prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. Papillary prints — which include prints from fingers, palms and soles — helped officials identify the remains of the 28-year-old of Belgian-origin, CNN quoted the office as saying […]
Washington, After the Paris terrorist attacks, governors of at least 24 US states, all but one of them Republican, including Louisiana’s Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal, have announced they will not accept Syrian refugees. The announcements came after authorities revealed that at least one of the suspects believed to be involved in the Paris attacks that […]
Islamabad, The Islamic State (IS) is very much present in Pakistan, said a leading daily, contradicting official claims that the group has no presence in the country. An editorial in The Nation said that in the wake of the horrific Paris terror attacks, the world has been forced to confront the IS question: how dangerous […]
Paris, Counter-terrorism units launched coordinated raids across France and arrested at least nine people in connection with the deadly Paris attacks, a media report said on Monday. Monday’s early morning raids took place in Calais, Toulouse, Paris, Jeumont and Grenoble where police blocked streets and searched houses looking for suspects involved in Friday’s attacks, which […]
London, After the terror strikes in Paris, we now know what a Mumbai-style terror attack looks like, said a British daily, adding that “this is war in which we are all equally at risk”. An editorial “Paris attacks: It’s war, but not as we know it” in the Independent said on Monday that “course of […]
Islamabad, Pakistan does not see Kashmir dispute as a geographical or border issue, but an unfinished agenda of the 1947 Partition plan, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said. Sharif made the remark in a letter to chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat Syeda Asiya Andrabi, The Nation reported on Monday. In the letter, he reaffirmed Pakistan’s policy of […]
Paris, A huge manhunt is under way for surviving members and accomplices of the Islamist group suspected to be involved in the Paris terror attacks that killed 129 people and left 350 others injured, media reports said on Monday. Police have named Belgium-born French national Salah Abdeslam, 26, as a key suspect. He was reportedly […]