Police in Bangladesh on Saturday arrested the alleged prime accused and instigator in connection with the attack on about 80 houses of Hindus by a hardline Islamist group in the country's northeastern Sylhet division following a social media post reportedly by a youth from the minority community.

Prime suspect in attack on Hindu homes in Bangladesh held 

Israel is highly likely to have been behind an attack in the Mediterranean this week that damaged an Iranian container ship, an Iranian investigator said on Saturday, Iran's media reported.

Israel likely behind container ship attack: Iranian investigator  

Saudi Arabia-led military coalition said that it thwarted a missile attack launched by Yemen's Houthi rebels. Loud explosions shook Riyadh on Saturday. Houthi rebels have intensified their efforts top capture Marib. The last stronghold held by the Saudi-backed Yemeni government. Houthi rebels have Iran's backing. Yemen's some of the most richest oil fields are located in Marib.

Saudi-led coalition says it thwarted Houthi missile attack on Riyadh

Once hunted to near extinction, whales continue to face threats from marine pollution, ships & abandoned fishing gear. Why must these evolutionary marvels be protected?

Whales under attack: Calls from the deep | WION Wideangle

A German court on Wednesday sentenced an Iraqi preacher to more than 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking part in planning an attack in Germany and collecting funds and fighters for the Islamic State militant group.

German court sentences IS recruiter to 10-year jail for planning attack

This Indian Independence Day, John Abraham will be seen in action-packed film titled ‘Attack’. Starring John Abraham, Jacqueline Fernandez and Rakulpreet Singh in pivotal roles, ‘Attack’ will release on August 13 as it is a story of race-against-time of rescue by an Attack team led by lone ranger played by John.

John Abraham's film 'Attack' to release this Independence Day

A total of six US police officers have been suspended with pay and another 29 have been put under investigation over their conduct during the riots on Capitol Hill on January 6, according to a police department spokesperson.

Six cops suspended for misconduct during Capitol Hill riots

Gunmen shot dead two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court during an early morning ambush in the country's capital Sunday. The killings come amid even as a wave of assassinations continues to rattle the nation.

Gunmen shoot two Afghan women judges dead in Kabul

The Nashville Blast was straight out of a crime thriller. The suspect quit his job, lied to his girlfriend, gave his house for free to another woman, then blew himself up after playing a countdown and a classic song. Palki Sharma Upadhyay brings you a report

Gravitas: Nashville Explosion

A parked motor home exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning in what police described as an "intentional act," and fire officials reported taking three people to hospital but none were critically injured.

Vehicle explodes in downtown Nashville, police call it an 'intentional act'

Police and federal agents in Nashville sought clues on Saturday to determine how and why a motor home was blown to pieces in an apparent bombing on Christmas Day that injured three people and damaged dozens of buildings in the heart of America's country music capital.

Police search for clues to mysterious motor home blast in Nashville

At one time, several countries in Europe including Britain, France, and Portugal ruled most of the rest of the world in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Europeans entered these impoverished regions as traders and then found that they could dominate these countries by exploiting the illiteracy of the local population and the enmity and conflicts between the local chieftains.

Has Europe already lost the war against Islamic extremists?

Twelve civilians have been injured after terrorists lobbed a grenade at Security forces in the Kakapora area of South Kashmir's Pulwama district. Police sources said that terrorists tried to target security forces' deployment, however, the grenade missed the target and exploded on road causing injures.

India: Twelve civilians injured in south Kashmir grenade attack

A man armed with a knife killed two people were killed and injured another eight, including an eight-year-old boy, in central Ukraine on Saturday, police said, in an incident the country's president described as "barbaric".

Two dead, eight injured in knife rampage in Ukraine

India should rethink and revise its policy on Tibet and exploit the geographic, ethnic, and economic fault lines within the Asian giant, such as Tibet, and Xinjiang.

India should rethink its policy on Tibet and exploit Beijing’s fault lines

The branches on trees around Kenya's northern town of Lodwar have been stripped bare of leaves, bending downwards under the weight of voracious young locusts. Numbers of locusts exploded in East Africa and the Red Sea region in late 2019, exacerbated by atypical weather patterns amplified by climate change.

Swarms of locusts devastate parts of northern Kenya

The India-China standoff in Ladakh has raised alarm over more such conflicts with China. As part of its attempt to hide the crackdown in Tibet, on June 17-18, China conducted a staged tour of Tibet for foreign diplomats.

China's continuous attacks on Tibet may be India's trump card

Eight people were killed in an attack on a clinic in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province, district police spokesman Adil Haidar said Saturday. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far, which took place in the Alisher district Friday night.

Eight killed in armed attack on clinic in Eastern Afghanistan, including political figure

The United States on Thursday blamed Islamic State militants -- not the Taliban -- for a gruesome hospital attack in Afghanistan this week that killed two newborn babies, and it renewed calls for Afghans to embrace a troubled peace push with the Taliban insurgency.

US says Islamic State conducted the attack on Kabul hospital

Truck with explosives blows up near a court in the Afghan city of Gardez on Thursday. The explosion has killed at least five people. This attack comes two days after gunmen attacked a maternity ward in Kabul.

Truck packed with explosives detonates in Afghanistan, claims 5 lives

India has strongly condemned the attack on two Indian fishing boats by Pakistan Maritime Security Agency and warned the neighbouring country to not repeat such "heinous" act.

India condemns attack on its fishing boats by Pakistani forces

A virus akin to SARS that recently hit China mysteriously has taken the lives of two people with more than hundreds likely to be infected, reported AFP. The virus also causes pneumonia which has infected at least 41 people in China.

Mysterious SARS-like virus in China has affected 'hundreds': Report

New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) witnessed violence yesterday which left many students and faculty members injured. In the aftermath of these events, a fact-finding committee has been ordered under the Joint Commissioner of Police.

Jawaharlal Nehru University row: Fact-finding committee ordered to assess mob attack

The Taliban terrorists have attacked a police checkpoint in the northern Afghan province of Balkh, leaving eight policemen dead and three others injured, the Balkh police chief, Ajmal Fayez, told Sputnik on Wednesday.

Afghanistan: 8 policemen killed in Taliban attack

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