Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that Zia was freed on humanitarian grounds after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's approval. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief is serving a 17-year prison term in two graft cases since February 8, 2018. Zia's family filed a plea with the government for an extension of the suspended prison sentence as the six months allotted to her in March will end on September 24, the Dhaka Tribune reported. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/34NgcxE
Lebanese authorities are probing what caused highly explosive material stored unsafely for years to detonate in a mushroom cloud, wrecking swathes of the city and fuelling anger at a political class already blamed for the country's economic meltdown. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3hI6roa
The real number of people infected by the virus around the world is believed to be much higher - perhaps 10 times higher in the US, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention - given testing limitations and the many mild cases that have gone unreported or unrecognised. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3b86nvk
The real number of people infected by the virus around the world is believed to be much higher - perhaps 10 times higher in the US, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention - given testing limitations and the many mild cases that have gone unreported or unrecognised. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3b86nvk
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga will join the race to succeed his boss Shinzo Abe as prime minister, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday, as the competition heats up to succeed Japan's longest-serving leader. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3b7m4TH
A French magazine has apologized after portraying a Black lawmaker as a slave, as France's government and officials across the political spectrum decried the publication. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3jpHJcy
A French magazine has apologized after portraying a Black lawmaker as a slave, as France's government and officials across the political spectrum decried the publication. from Europe News Headlines, Latest Europe News and Live Updates - Times of India https://ift.tt/3jpHJcy
Brazil is just the second country to surpass a death toll of 120,000 in the pandemic, after the United States, where the number killed is now more than 182,000. Unlike in Europe and Asia, where the virus hit hard and then subsided, Brazil's outbreak is advancing at a slow but devastating pace. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3jt0Oe0
At least 33 states continue to recommend testing people who have been exposed to Covid-19 and have no symptoms, spurning guidance published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week that said testing may be unnecessary. Sixteen states did not immediately respond to requests for comment and North Dakota said it had not made a decision. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2QAnhsW
The Democratic presidential nominee, in a virtual address to the National Guard Association of the United States' general conference, said Trump recommended "that you should be deployed to quote, 'dominate,' your fellow citizens for exercising their right to peacefully protest.” from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/32AZZsB
Trump will go to Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday to meet with law enforcement officials and view damage from unrest triggered by Blake's shooting last weekend, White House spokesman Judd Deere said. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2EMhYEe
German police halted a Berlin march by thousands of people opposed to coronavirus restrictions in the biggest of several European protests Saturday against anti-virus curbs and masks to halt the pandemic. from Europe News Headlines, Latest Europe News and Live Updates - Times of India https://ift.tt/3b7fLzg
The Ministry of Emergency Management says another 28 people were injured, seven of them seriously, when the building suddenly tumbled on Saturday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3b9J1pl
Julia Reed, who wrote about food and culture in the South and promoted her native Mississippi Delta, has died. She was 59. Reed died Friday of cancer, the editors of Garden & Gun magazine said in a post on the magazine's website. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3hBBVfz
President Donald Trump got a firsthand look Saturday at the damage from Hurricane Laura on a post-Republican National Convention trip that allowed him to use the trappings of his office to try to project empathy and leadership. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2EwT4sG