[Bangla Daily Star] Angry locals dragged a woman out of a police vehicle and beat her to death suspecting her as child-trafficker at the capital's Jatrabari yesterday.
They also injured three coppers, a driver and vandalised the police van as the law enforcers attempted to control the rowdy crowd.
Maksuda, 35, died shortly after she was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
According to locals, the woman was seen with a two-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl at Hashem road of Matuail around 11:00am.
A local recognised the children as Jannat and Fahim, her neighbour's children and stopped the woman. She hurriedly walked away leaving the children behind.
Suspecting her as child-trafficker, the locals beat her up and handed her over to the police around 11:30am.
"Three coppers and an Ansar member arrived and picked the woman when suddenly, the mob intercepted the van and asked the police to hand over the woman to them," Assistant Commissioner of Demra zone Md Iqbal Hossain told The Daily Star.
"When the police refused the unruly mob beat them up, vandalised the vehicle and beat up the woman again," he said.
Additional coppers reached the spot shortly afterwards and sent the critically injured woman to DMCH, where she died around 3:00pm, he added.
The injured coppers, Sub-Inspector of Jatrabari Police Station Nazrul Islam, constables Ghulam Azam, Monir Hossain were admitted to Rajarbagh Police Lines Hospital, while the driver, Liton received first aid.
Yasmine, mother of Jannat and Fahim, claimed that Maksuda had tricked her children with promises of food while they were playing outside their house.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Detective Branch of police yesterday pressed charges in a case against five criminals for their involvement in the killing of Saudi embassy official Khalaf Al Ali in the capital.
DB Assistant Commissioner Md Obaidul Haque, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka, showing 31 people as prosecution witnesses.
The five accused are Mohammad Al Amin, Saiful Islam Mamun, Rafiqul Islam Khokon, Selim Chowdhury and Akbar Ali Lalu.
Of them, Selim is on the run. And the others were earlier tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... and are now in jug.
The charges against the killers have been proved and they should be brought to trial, said the IO in the charge sheet.
The IO appealed to the court to issue an arrest warrant for Selim, who comes from Bhola, and an order to attach his properties.
Khalaf, 45, worked at the consular section of the Saudi embassy. He was rubbed out in a mugging incident near his Gulshan house in the small hours of March 6.
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Some EU countries will be unable to afford key parts of their national defence unless they spend more and cooperate better on defence, EU Military Committee chairman, Hakan Syren warned in Brussels Wednesday, Reuters reports. He suggested a percentage of national defence budgets be set aside for common European purposes. These being?
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It gets even worse: Europe's most powerful countries call for elected EU president Germany,France and nine other of Europe's most powerful countries have called for an elected European Union president and an end to Britain's veto over defence policy in a radical blueprint mapping out the continent's future.
Gold has now reached all-time record highs in terms of the Euro, Swiss Franc, and Brazilian Real. Gold in USD is up 90% from the March 2009 equity lows and up 50-65% in the rest of the major fiat currencies. Of course it did. The market is pricing in QE3.
The Defense Department should take over security for U.S. nuclear weapons sites after a nuclear complex was broken into with ease in July by an 82-year-old nun and two other peace activists, a top lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Friday.
Mike Turner, the Republican chairman of the House Armed Services panel that oversees the Energy Department's nuclear weapons complex, has drafted legislation to put the U.S. military in charge of protecting facilities like the Y-12 complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
"The fact that this vulnerability is so widely known has got to be addressed," Turner said in an interview.
The Y-12 facility, built after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, had been previously touted as "the Fort Knox of uranium" and was supposed to be one of the most secure facilities in the United States.
But in July, the three anti-nuclear activists cut through several fences and vandalized a building which holds the U.S. stockpile of highly enriched uranium used to make nuclear bombs.
An internal Energy Department watchdog found guards ignored motion sensors because they were routinely triggered by wildlife, and a security camera that should have shown the break-in had been broken for about six months.
[Dawn] Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. 's counsel, Barrister Anwar Mansoor, on Thursday said that the Supreme Court had not disqualified his client through its verdict on the dual nationality case, adding that, it was up to Senate Chairman Nayyar Hussain Bukhari to decide on Malik's membership, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to media representatives after the court's verdict in the said case, Mansoor said Malik remained a senator as well as a minister, adding that, the court had forwarded the matter to the Senate's chairman.
The Senate's chairman would assess the legal requisites and implications and then decide on Malik's membership, Mansoor said.
Responding to a question, the counsel said the decision pertaining to initiation of criminal proceedings against Malik would be taken by a concerned court.
On the occasion, Malik, who was accompanying his counsel, said he respected the decision of the Supreme Court.
Earlier today, the Supreme Court ruled that politicians holding dual nationalities were not eligible to hold any public officers and declared all such politicians as disqualified.
Ruling that Rehman Malik was a British citizen until May 29, 2012, the verdict stated that the PPP leader was not transparent with respect to his statements and could no longer be considered 'sadiq' and 'ameen'.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Pakistain's Supreme Court yesterday said Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. , a key aide to the president, should lose his senate seat for making a false statement in election papers.
It is the second time in three months the court has ruled against Malik, a senior member of the ruling Pakistain People's Party (PPP) seen by many as President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... 's right-hand man, and the latest round in a long-running tussle between the government and the judiciary.
Some government members have accused judges of overreaching their authority and trying to bring down the coalition before it becomes the first elected administration in Pakistain's history to complete a full five-year term.
The court also disqualified four MPs -- two from the PPP -- and seven provincial assembly members yesterday for holding dual nationality. The constitution bars elected politicians from holding citizenship of any country other than Pakistain.
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Faced with serious financial shortage, Jordan is expecting to receive a life line of $650 million from the US, the EU and some European countries to finance the state budget, finance minister Jafaar Hassad said today.
Nearly $400 million will be handed to the kingdom as grants, and rest, totaling $250 million will be loans paid under easy loan agreements, said the minister, noting that the government also is reaching out to Arab gulf states to fund the budget.
The government said it will channel part of the funds to projects in the fields of water, education, energy and business.
The government this year said the budget deficit reached JD1.2 billion and the figure could go higher towards end of the year. The government says it needs additional funds to pay for subsidies on energy including fuel and electricity, which could reach up to $ 2 billion.
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Jordan had a chance to go in with Israel on a neat project to bring in sea water from the Med and generate power and desalinate some of the water, putting the rest in the dying Dead Sea. What a project!
Too bad it did not happen Jordan. Now you need subsidies to survive instead of getting something to help your country and economy. Too bad.
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Maybe Jordan should have kept the money it un-froze to give to Hamas...
Anatomy Prize: Frans de Waal (Netherlands/US) and Jennifer Pokorny (US) for discovering that chimpanzees can identify other chimpanzees individually from seeing photographs of their rear ends.
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Angry locals dragged a woman out of a police vehicle and beat her to death suspecting her as child-trafficker at the capital's Jatrabari yesterday.
Pakistain's Supreme Court yesterday said Interior Minister 
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