Civilian plane crash kills 11 in France
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France shuts down nuclear reactors in heatwave precaution
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European leaders to meet for Ukraine talks in Berlin
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Starmer resigns as UK PM
AFP, London
23 June 2026, 00:00 AM Europe
‘Starmer thinking about quitting’
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Rare manuscript of Mozart found in France
AFP, Paris
22 June 2026, 00:00 AM Europe

Ebola-free Liberia sees new case: WHO

The World Health Organization yesterday confirmed that a new case of the deadly Ebola virus has surfaced in Liberia, which was declared
20 November 2015, 18:00 PM

She 'did not blow herself up'

Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman believed to have blown herself up during the police raid that killed the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, swapped her party-girl persona for that of an Islamist radical just months before her death.
20 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Tapped phone led 'ring leader' to his death

The top suspect behind last week's Paris attacks was watched by police being led into a building by a woman suicide bomber the evening before they both died there during a raid by special forces, a police source said yesterday.
20 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Paris attacks: Abdelhamid Abaaoud 'died in Saint Denis raid'

The suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, has been identified as one of those killed in a raid in Saint Denis, the Paris prosecutor says.
19 November 2015, 13:04 PM

Bid to abduct schoolgirl, two held

Local people caught two abductors red handed when they made an attempt to kidnap a schoolgirl in Munshiganj Sadar upazila yesterday.
18 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Gunshots rattle Paris suburb

A woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a police raid that sources said had foiled a jihadi plan to hit Paris's business district, days after attacks that killed 129 across the French capital.
18 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Italian doctor comes under gun attack

Yet another foreigner came under attack by unidentified assailants in Dinajpur yesterday, around one and a half months after two others were shot dead in the capital and Rangpur.
18 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Govt blocks Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber

The government has ordered blocking popular social networking platform Facebook and online messaging and calling services WhatsApp and Viber this morning.
18 November 2015, 06:42 AM

Paris attacks: Police in deadly swoop on apartment in northern suburb

Armed police have raided a flat in the north Paris suburb of Saint Denis in an operation linked to Friday's attacks.
18 November 2015, 05:53 AM

Paris attacks: Video 'shows ninth attacker'

French security sources say that surveillance video shows a possible ninth assailant during Friday's attacks in which 129 people died.
18 November 2015, 04:57 AM

France steps up efforts to crush Islamic State

French warplanes pounded Islamic State targets and Russia vowed to ramp up its bombing campaign in Syria
17 November 2015, 18:00 PM

SQ Chy's review hearing pushed to tomorrow

The Supreme Court has set a fresh date, tomorrow, for the review hearing on war criminal and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s death penalty.
17 November 2015, 07:58 AM

Friend standing next to American killed in Paris attacks speaks out

The American who was killed in the assault on Paris celebrated her 23rd birthday there last month. Nohemi Gonzalez was a student at Cal State-Long Beach on a semester abroad.
17 November 2015, 06:35 AM

Quick thinking, solid security, attackers' mistakes averted massacre at Paris stadium

Quick thinking, solid security, attackers' mistakes may have averted massacre at Paris stadium.
17 November 2015, 05:04 AM

‘India assures of sharing info on militancy’

India assures of sharing information on militancy with Bangladesh, says Senior Secretary to the Home Ministry Mozammel Haque Khan. He was talking to reporters following a secretary-level meeting between Bangladesh and its neighbouring India.
17 November 2015, 04:59 AM

Europe refugee row intensified

A German minister yesterday warned against drawing a hasty link between refugees and perpetrators of the deadly Paris attacks, warning that the IS group could be trying to exploit the debate over Europe's migrant influx.
16 November 2015, 18:00 PM

France strikes ISIS targets

Twelve French warplanes have bombarded Raqqa, the de facto “capital” of IS in Syria, two days after bombing and gun attacks in Paris killed 129 people. The air strikes late on Sunday were the first since the Paris attacks, and saw 12 French air force planes drop 20 bombs on Islamic State group positions.
16 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Pianist plays 'Imagine' cover at Paris memorial scene (video)

A pianist plays John Lennon's ‘Imagine’ on a portable piano at a memorial close to the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where at 89 people were killed.
16 November 2015, 08:00 AM

Guns, God and grievances: Belgium's Islamist "airbase"

"A breeding ground for violence" the mayor of Molenbeek called her town, speaking of unemployment and overcrowding among Arab immigrant families, of youthful despair finding refuge in radical Islam.
16 November 2015, 06:46 AM

France's fragile economy under siege after Paris attacks

France's fragile economic recovery is under threat after the Paris attacks, economists say, with tourism and consumer spending likely to come under siege.
16 November 2015, 05:27 AM