Probashbangla24 online Desk : A French photographer at the heart of a rape scandal that saw this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature postponed has been handed a two-year prison sentence. On Monday a Swedish court found Jean-Claude Arnault, 72, guilty of raping a woman in an apartment in Stockholm in 2011. Arnault, who is well known…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : The announcement for the Medicine Prize risks being eclipsed by a Stockholm court verdict against Jean-Claude Arnault, a man with close ties to the Academy who has been charged with rape. The announcement on Monday of the Nobel Medicine Prize opens this year’s amputated awards season, with no Literature Prize for the…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : The prime minister has refused to confirm the Welsh Government will control a new fund to replace EU economic aid for Wales after Brexit. Theresa May told BBC Wales “across the whole of the UK” the Shared Prosperity Fund needed the “right structure and the right processes”. She said this was to…
Probashbangla24 online Desk :A woman in the far east of Russia has told the BBC she recognises one of the key suspects in the Salisbury attack as a military intelligence officer. The woman identified him immediately from photographs as Anatoliy Chepiga, a decorated “Hero of Russia”. Her assertion supports research by the Bellingcat online investigations…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A powerful typhoon pummelled Japan’s southern island of Okinawa Saturday, injuring at least 17, as weather officials warned the storm would rip through the Japanese archipelago over the weekend. Typhoon Trami, packing maximum gusts of 216 kilometres (134 miles) per hour near its centre, was forecast to hit the mainland early Sunday…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Rescuers have been digging by hand in the frantic search for survivors in the Indonesian city of Palu, which is reeling from an earthquake and tsunami. At least 408 people have been killed but there are fears the death toll could rise significantly as workers reach areas closer to the epicentre. Search…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Theresa May has rejected claims she does not believe in Brexit – and insisted she would make a success of it “regardless of the outcome” of talks. She told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show her plan for post-Brexit trade with the EU was not dead – despite it having been rejected by…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said Malaysia will no longer support the leadership of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi because of her handling of the Rohingya crisis in her country. In an interview with Turkish international news channel TRT World, Dr Mahathir said Suu Kyi seemed to be a…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : At least 832 people were killed in the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the national disaster agency says. It added that the affected area was bigger than initially thought. Many people were reported trapped in the rubble of buildings that collapsed in Friday’s 7.5-magnitude earthquake, agency…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A Conservative MP says she sees no alternative other than backing another referendum on leaving the EU. Heidi Allen becomes the latest Tory to support a new vote, saying the “right-wing” of her party had made Theresa May’s Chequers Brexit plan – “dead”. “They have behaved unacceptably through this and have completely…