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Bomb attack: Police HQ issues nationwide alert

Police headquarters asks its all unit across the country to remain alert following yesterday’s bomb attack on police at Science Laboratory Intersection in Dhaka.
Bomb kills 16 in Pakistan: officials

At least 16 people are killed and 30 wounded in a bomb blast at a fruit market in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, officials tell AFP.
3,000 fighters surrender

US-backed forces said yesterday the Islamic State group was living its "final moments" after thunderous shelling on its last scrap of land in eastern Syria prompted 3,000 jihadists to surrender.
Bagerhat BNP leader killed in 'bomb attack'

A local leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party was killed allegedly in a bomb attack in Bagerhat's Rampal upazila yesterday, police said.
3 hurt in bomb attack by 'robbers' in Chuadanga

Three members of a family are injured in a bomb attack carried out by the suspected robbers in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga.
JMB man given jail for life over Laxmipur court bomb attack

The Supreme Court sentences an activist of a banned militant outfit to imprisonment until death in two cases filed over bomb attack at a Laxmipur court in 2005.
Afghan bomber 'kills 12 recruits'

At least 12 people have been killed and dozens wounded by a bomb targeting police recruits in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
Bomb attack at Laxmipur court: HC upholds death for JMB man

SC upholds death penalty of JMB leader Masumur Rahman Masum in 2 cases filed for killing a man and injuring few others in a bomb attack at Laxmipur in 2005.
Scores critical after Brussels attack

Scores of people remain in intensive care following suicide Tuesday's bomb attacks in Brussels that left 31 people dead, Belgium's health minister says.
Death penalty of JMB man commuted

Supreme Court commutes the death sentence of a member of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to jail until death for the bomb attack on Sylhet judge in 2005.
JMB behind Hossaini Dalan attack

Outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh carried out a bomb attack on a gathering of “non-Islamic” Shia community at Hossaini Dalan last year to announce their existence, confessed two JMB members.
2 killed in Saudi mosque attack

Two people were killed and seven others are wounded in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in the east of Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry says on Friday.
No time to rest

Ilias Biswas cannot afford to stay at home.
Truck bomb kills 65 at Libyan police training centre

At least 65 people are killed when one of Libya's worst truck bombs in years exploded at a police training centre in the town of Zliten.
A mother's light has gone out

For 91 days from January 6 to April 4 last year, there was hardly a single day when innocent people were not burnt to death or injured in arson attacks on public transports.
Two killed in bomb attack

Two people were killed after unknown assailants hurled bombs at a tea stall in Gangadaspur village of Chuadanga's
Taliban suicide blast kills 21 in Pakistan

At least 21 people are killed and dozens wounded when a Taliban suicide bomber on a motorbike crashed into the main gate of a government office in the northwest Pakistan town of Mardan.
Gayeshwar gets HC bail, free to come out of jail

High Court grants bail to BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy in a criminal case clearing his way to walk out of jail.
Diplomats shouldn’t ‘overreact’: Tofail

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed calls upon the diplomats of different countries residing in Bangladesh “not to overreact” on the matter of the killing of two foreign nationals.
US updates security alert after Hossaini Dalan blasts

The United States has updated its security alert for its citizens residing in Bangladesh after the bomb attack on Shia Muslim community in Old Dhaka.
Thailand charges man 'linked to bomb'

Police in Bangkok have charged a man in connection with the bomb attack that killed 20 people in the Thai capital nearly two weeks ago.
Istanbul hit by blast and gunfire

Violence has flared up in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, with two gunmen opening fire outside the US consulate, just hours after a bomb attack on a police station.
Bomb blast in Nigeria kills 20

20 people die in a bomb attack in north-western Nigeria's Zaria city, state governor Nasir El-Rufa'i says.
4 arson victims die at DMCH

Four including three of the nine who suffered severe burns in the mindless petrol bomb attack on a truck in Magura succumbed to their injuries at DMCH
5 burnt in Feni firebomb attack

Five people suffer burns as miscreants hurled firebombs at a truck in Dagonbhuiyan upazila of Feni