A PERSON who enters state custody should be protected by the law. Their safety becomes the responsibility of the state the moment the handcuffs are placed or the lock on the cell is closed. Yet the reality shows a picture that is far from this basic idea. Reports from rights groups and media have long told us about custodial deaths, but the pattern visible is deeply...
Freight carriers UPS and FedEx said they have grounded their fleets of MD-11 cargo planes, after one of them was involved in a deadly crash in Kentucky this week...
A bus was set on fire on Monday in Fatullah upazila of Narayanganj following the death of a man...
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said Monday he is ready to declare a state of emergency over the threat of US 鈥榓ggression,鈥� following a spate of deadly US strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats...
A four-kilometre stretch of the Rangpur-Dhaka Highway, passing through the Mithapukur upazila, has turned into a deadly zone, claiming at least seven lives in the past month alone...
Indian investigators have successfully retrieved data from the black boxes of a Boeing plane, after it crashed in one of the deadliest air disasters in decades, the government said Thursday...
Fresh Russian strikes on Ukraine鈥檚 northeastern city of Kharkiv killed three people and wounded 60 others, including children, on Wednesday, authorities said, as Moscow pushed ahead with attacks after rejecting an unconditional ceasefire...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday slammed the US embassy in Ukraine for what he called a 鈥榳eak鈥� statement that did not blame Russia for a missile strike that killed 18 people...
Fire-wrecked Los Angeles got a break on Wednesday as dangerous winds dropped, giving hope to weary firefighters still battling to snuff out deadly blazes...
A migrant died Sunday in an attempt to cross the Channel to Britain, a death that comes on top of two deadly boat sinkings in the past 10 days, French officials said...
Israeli forces battled Hezbollah militants in Lebanon on Wednesday, with Israel announcing the first death of a soldier since it launched cross-border raids...
Israel said on Thursday it bombed Hezbollah sites in Lebanon, piling pressure on the militant group already reeling after a series of deadly explosions targeting its communications systems that it blamed on Israel...
Residents of Vietnam鈥檚 capital waded through waist-deep water on Wednesday as river levels hit a 20-year high and the toll from the area鈥檚 strongest typhoon in decades rose to at least 179, with neighbouring nations also enduring deadly flooding and landslides...
Russia on Sunday said its forces had advanced in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv reported deadly air attacks and urged the West to allow it to carry out more retaliatory strikes inside Russia鈥檚 borders...
Israel and Hezbollah exchanged deadly fire on Tuesday, following a rocket attack from Lebanon on the Golan Heights that killed 12 children over the weekend and sent regional tensions soaring...
Bangladeshi nobel peace prize laureate Muhammad Yunus urged the international community on Monday to stop the deadly violence that has wracked his country since students started protesting against civil service hiring rules...
Israel carried out deadly airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday and engaged in combat with Hamas fighters, while to the north it exchanged fire with Hezbollah militants across the Lebanese border...
Kuwaiti authorities said on Thursday three people had been detained for suspected manslaughter over a building fire that killed 50 foreign workers, mostly Indians, and plunged relatives and friends into mourning...
Romanian prosecutors Friday issued a fresh indictment against former president Ion Iliescu for crimes against humanity in a deadly 1990 crackdown on protesters, the latest of several proceedings against him...
