Probashbangla24 online Desk : Flash floods have killed at least five people in southwest France, with roads swept away and rivers overflowing as the equivalent of several months of rain fell overnight in the space of hours, an official said Monday. Alain Thirion, the prefect of the Aude region, gave the death toll in a phone…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Twelve people were feared dead in a cyclone shelter swamped by a landslide caused by heavy rains in eastern India, officials said Saturday. Krishan Kumar, a spokesman for the National Disaster Response Force, said relief officials rushed to the remote area in Gajapati district in Orissa state. The landslide hit on Friday,…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : The European Union (EU) has called on Bangladesh authorities to introduce a moratorium on executions as a first step towards abolition of capital punishment. ‘The death penalty doesn’t act as a deterrent to crime, and any error of judgement is impossible to correct,’ said the Heads of Mission of the EU Member…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Rivers have been bursting their banks as heavy rain from Storm Callum causes havoc for a second day. There are more than 30 flood warnings, while one village is on evacuation alert and other towns are at risk. Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Powys were worst hit and Dyfed-Powys Police told people to stay…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A mass grave containing 75 bodies has been found near the former jihadist bastion of Sirte in western Libya, an official said Wednesday. Mohamad al-Amial, the coastal city’s municipal council spokesman, told AFP the mass grave was uncovered in an agricultural area of Al-Daheir, west of Sirte. “Seventy-five decomposed bodies were recovered”…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : South Korea’s foreign minister says Seoul is considering lifting some of its unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang to create more momentum for diplomacy aimed at improving relations and defusing the nuclear crisis. Kang Kyung-wha told lawmakers on Wednesday that the government is reviewing whether to lift sanctions South Korea imposed on the North…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : One of the most comprehensive studies of the state of banking and markets since the financial crisis warns that “dangerous undercurrents” are a rising threat to the world economy. The International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report says that although banks are far safer than they were in 2008 there are new risks.…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A Bulgarian man has been detained in Germany over the rape and murder of television journalist Viktoria Marinova, officials said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said journalists in Bulgaria had total freedom to write and report. The suspect was arrested on Tuesday at the request of Bulgaria, Interior Minister Mladen…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : The verdicts of the August 21 grenade attack cases, delivered after 14 years and 49 days after the deadly carnage, has changed the political landscape ahead of the national polls as many BNP leaders have been convicted for their direct or indirect involvement in the attacks. BNP’s acting chairperson Tarique Rahman, former…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A Dhaka court has sentenced former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar, former Deputy Minister for Education Abdus Salam Pintu and 17 others to death in the August 21 grenade attack case. BNP acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, leader Abul Harris Chowdhury and 15 others, have received life imprisonment in the case. Judge Shahed Nuruddin…