Trump claims credit for DHS deportation plan
Donald Trump is taking credit for the Obama administration's reported plans to step up deportations of families early next year, and claimed Saturday that "criminal deportations" are at their lowest number in years.
Trash talk: What Putin's presidential potty mouth is all about
It was a classic "Putin moment."A huge hall filled with almost a thousand journalists, his formal "year-ender" December 17 news conference, broadcast live on all the major Russian TV networks and websites.
French journalist Ursula Gauthier kicked out of China for slamming Beijing's Uyghur policy
Chinese authorities say they're not renewing the press credentials for a French journalist whose recent reporting questioned Beijing's "ulterior motives" in standing in solidarity with France after the November Paris attacks, and criticized China's handling of its Uyghur minority.
ISIS leader purportedly tells fighters: 'You are on the right path'
As ISIS fends off ground attacks around places like Ramadi and airstrikes by U.S., Russian and other forces, its leader purportedly fired back in an audio message that surfaced online Saturday, mocking the Western coalition aligned against him, threatening Israel and trying to boost his own forces' morale.
SHIA MOSQUE ATTACK : No headway in probe
There is almost no headway in probe in one month after the gun-attack at a Shia mosque in Bogra that killed one and injured three on November 26.
TIGHTENED SECURITY AT HSIA : RMG sector hit by delay in delivery of imported goods
Readymade garment exporters on Saturday alleged that the delay in making delivery of raw materials imported through air cargoes was disrupting the supply chain of the export-oriented sector.
Rickshaws in limbo in city streets
Sixteen years since the authorities stopped issuing licences to rickshaws, there are about 10 lakh unregistered rickshaws on the streets and a third about all trips are still covered by rickshaws. In the absence of government authorisation, many rickshaws now receive patronage from unions.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS : Attacks, cases browbeat opposition
With only three days left for the election to 234 municipalities, ruling Awami League men seem to be on a spree of filing cases against their rival candidates since Wednesday night in a bid to scare them off electioneering while attacks on rivals continued unabated.
CJ demands twice as many subordinate judges
Chief Justice SK Sinha on Saturday requested the government to raise the number of subordinate court judges by at least two times.
Newly released documents reveal U.S. Cold War nuclear target list
U.S. plans for nuclear war in 1959 included the "systematic destruction" of major urban centers like East Berlin, Moscow and Beijing -- with the populations of those cities among the primary military targets.
