17 dead in Florida high school shooting
17 dead in Florida high school shootin Students released from a lockdown embrace following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. on Wednesday. Photo: AP Police said a former student opened fire at a Florida high school on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending scores of students fleeing […]
IGNORANCE, JEALOUSY, AND HATRED BRING SELF DESTRUCTION F R Chowdhury 17.1.2018 Donald Trump had a simple and easy slogan for his election campaign – MAGA – make America great again. Many think that Trump was trying to refer to Barrack Obama presidency period as a dark chapter and promised to bring back the white supremacy […]
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Babul Sharif’s family addresses a media briefing. US president Donald Trump’s administration has deported 11 Bangladeshi immigrants to the country. They were detained and forcefully sent back on Wednesday morning by a special flight from a deportation centre in Arizona state, officials concerned confirmed. Ten of them were residents of New York state. The 11 […]
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At least 58 people were killed and over 500 injured when a gunman opened fire from a 32nd floor hotel room on a country music concert in Las Vegas in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Police identified the heavily armed gunman behind the Sunday night massacre on the Las Vegas Strip — […]
Continue reading …United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City during the September 11 attacks. Source: Wikipedia Commons. 9/11: The Morning That Changed The World I Knew By IDN By Dr Palitha Kohona* It was another sunny September morning. The sky was a brilliant […]
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Cubans wade through a flooded street in Havana, on Sunday. Deadly Hurricane Irma battered central Cuba on Saturday, knocking down power lines, uprooting trees and ripping the roofs off homes as it headed towards Florida. — AFP photo More than 1.6 million homes and businesses in south Florida were without power from Hurricane Irma on […]
Continue reading …How Muslim Americans are fighting Islamophobia and securing their civil rights
September 6, 2017 No CommentHow Muslim Americans are fighting Islamophobia and securing their civil rights Rally against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki Emily Cury, Northeastern University The past year has been a difficult one for American Muslims. According to a July 2017 Pew survey, 48 percent of Muslims report experiencing […]
Continue reading …Peter Preston Issues of diversity and representation in news are not simply a matter of who is doing the reporting, but also of what the audience chooses to read Donald and Melania – in a much-remarked-upon outfit – depart for Houston. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty ImagesSunday 3 September 2017 02.00 EDT One foreign reporting job from long […]
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A 22-year-old American youth of Bangladeshi descent was charged on Tuesday with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State, after he flew from New York to Saudi Arabia this spring with the intention, federal prosecutors said, of entering Syria to join the terrorist group. The man, Parveg Ahmed, flew to Saudi Arabia in […]
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A Canadian man of Bangladeshi origin has been listed as a potential suicide bomber trained by the so-called Islamic State for targets in Europe. Tabirul Hasib, 25, a former Toronto resident, was mentioned on the list by Interpol, based on data uncovered by US intelligence, according to Canada-based Global News. The list of 173 fighters […]
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Prachita Dutta and Ikram Ali. Photo: CollectedTwo Bangladesh nationals were killed and another was injured in a road crash in Wilkinson County area of the US state of Georgia on Monday. Deceased Prachita Dutta Tumpa, 25, and Imtiaz Ikram Ali, 26, were PhD students at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Another Bangladeshi Farzana Sultana […]
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A federal grand jury has indicted a Maryland man on charges of attempting to murder an FBI agent and trying to provide support to Islamic State militants, US prosecutors said on Tuesday. Nelash Das, 25, of Landover Hills, was arrested by federal agents in September 2016 as he was preparing to attack a US military […]
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