Probashbangla24 online Desk : Israeli security forces raided the village of a Palestinian suspected of shooting two Israelis dead, the army said Monday, making arrests while the assailant himself remained at large. Ashraf Naalwa, 23, from the northern West Bank village of Shuweika, has been named by the Israeli army as the Palestinian behind Sunday’s attack…
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Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova raped and murdered
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Bulgarian authorities are investigating the rape and murder of an investigative reporter in the northern city of Ruse, the third journalist to have been killed in the EU this year. The body of 30-year-old Viktoria Marinova was found on Saturday near a pedestrian alley in an area with heavy vegetation, Bulgarian state…
More bodies found as death toll from Indonesia quake nears 2,000
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Nearly 2,000 bodies have been recovered from Indonesia’s disaster-ravaged Palu city, an official said Monday, as the search for victims ended at a hotel destroyed in the powerful earthquake and tsunami. The death toll from the twin disaster on Sulawesi island that erased whole suburbs in Palu has reached 1,944, said local…
China confirms detention of Interpol chief
Probashbangla24 online Desk : China has confirmed it is holding the missing head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei. Beijing said he was under investigation by the country’s anti-corruption body for unspecified breaches of the law. Meng, also a vice-minister of public security in China, was reported missing after travelling from the city of Lyon in…
Israeli PM’s wife on trial for ‘fraudulent’ use of state funds
Probashbangla24 online Desk : The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone on trial for allegedly using state funds to fraudulently pay for hundreds of meals, part of a list of legal troubles facing the family. The trial for Sara Netanyahu, that started on Sunday, will be the latest chapter in a saga intensely…
Americans Nordhaus, Romer win Nobel Economics Prize
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer won the 2018 Nobel Economics Prize for work in integrating climate change and technological innovation into economic analysis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. Nordhaus, of Yale University, was the first person to create a quantitative model that described the interplay between the…
The battle to revive Scotland’s disappearing orchards
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Orchards first took root in Scotland more than 800 years ago but there’s mounting evidence that they are now in steep decline. Could the days of The Bloody Ploughman and The Lass O’Gowrie be numbered? They are among more than 40 varieties of Scottish apple that have flourished in Scotland over the…
Green mamba snake found after biting ‘owner’ in Prague
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A highly venomous green mamba snake that escaped from its presumed owner on Tuesday after biting her in the Czech capital, Prague, has been caught. The snake had gone into hiding in a Prague district and residents were placed on alert and warned to keep an eye out for the reptile. The…
Yemen rebels detain dozens of student protesters: activists
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Yemeni rebels on Saturday detained dozens of students protesting in the capital Sanaa against poverty in the war-torn country, activists and witnesses said. Local activists, asking not to be named, told AFP that the Shiite Huthi movement detained at least 55 students, including 18 women, near Sanaa University. Huthi authorities had warned…
Romania marriage poll: One man, one woman definition up for vote
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Romanians are deciding this weekend whether a family should revolve around a married man and woman. The two-day vote on changing their constitution has been portrayed by supporters of the referendum as a way of protecting the status of the “traditional” family. Opponents warn it will come at the expense of same-sex…