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From Easter justice to wider justice

THERE has long been speculation that the Easter bombing of April 2019 had a relationship to Sri Lankan politics. The near simultaneous bombings of three Christian churches and three luxury hotels, with a death toll of 270 and over 500 injured, by Muslim suicide bombers made no sense in Sri Lanka where there has been no history of conflict between the two religions...

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Bomb hoax delays Biman flight at Dhaka airport

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight bound for Kathmandu was halted just moments before takeoff on Friday at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka after an anonymous phone call had warned of a bomb on board.

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Use of US bunker-buster bomb looms over Iran conflict

A powerful American bunker-busting bomb is the only weapon capable of destroying Iran’s deeply buried nuclear facilities, making it president Donald Trump’s weapon of choice if he chooses to militarily back Israel...

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School bus bombing kills six in Pakistan

A suspected suicide bomber targeted a school bus in southwestern Pakistan killing at least four children and two adults on Wednesday, in an attack the government accused India of backing...

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Bomb blast kills four in Balochistan

At least four people were killed while 12 others were wounded in a bomb blast in Pakistan’s turbulent southern province of Balochistan, a security official said on Monday...

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RAMNA BATAMUL BLAST: HC commutes death sentence of 7 convicts

The High Court on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of seven members of the banned extremist outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami Bangladesh in the case of 2001 Ramna Batamul blast that killed 10 people during Pahela Baishakh celebrations in Dhaka.

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MSF’s hospital bombed in S Sudan

Doctors Without Borders said one of its hospitals in South Sudan had been bombed early on Saturday, with local officials reporting at least four dead in the area...

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Four injured in crude bomb attack

At least four people, including a local union parishad chairman, were injured in a crude bomb attack at Baroghoria Bazar in Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila Thursday night.

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HSIA gets bomb hoax call again, security tightened

The Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport authorities again received a potential bomb threat call on Wednesday night and the authorities checked people and planes till 2:30am on Thursday to ensure security...

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Bomb hoax disrupts activities at Dhaka airport

Panic gripped people at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport after the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh on Wednesday morning received information about a potential bomb attack on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight bound for Dhaka from Rome...

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CPB observes anniv of bomb attack on its Paltan rally

Leaders of the Communist Party of Bangladesh on Monday demanded punishment for killers involved in killing party’s leaders and activists in a bomb attack on party’s January 20, 2001 rally at Paltan Maidan...

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Pakistani separatists kill 26 in station blast

A bombing claimed by Pakistani separatists killed 26 people including 14 soldiers at a railway station in the southwestern Balochistan province, a hospital spokesman said Saturday.

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Israeli forces strike deadly bombing in Gaza

Israeli forces carried out new deadly bombings targeting Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday, as international mediators prepared to propose a short-term truce to free hostages and avert a humanitarian catastrophe...

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India warns social media after airline bomb threats

India has warned social media platforms of ‘consequential action’ after hundreds of hoax bomb threats to Indian airlines this month triggered travel chaos and terror it said threatened national security...