Dhaka / AFP Bangladesh police have arrested an additional 2,000 suspected criminals including militants in an ongoing crackdown on extremists following a spate of gruesome murders, an officer said on Sunday. More than 3,000 people, including suspected ordinary criminals with existing warrants against them, were arrested on Saturday after police launched a controversial anti-militant drive across the Muslim-majority nation. ...

  Washington / AFP CIA chief John Brennan said that secret findings of a 2002 congressional investigation into the 9/11 attacks should not be taken as evidence of official Saudi complicity. A decision is expected soon on whether to release the classified 28-page section of the report by the House and Senate intelligence committees. Former senator Bob Graham, who headed ...

  Bamako / AFP As the United Nations looks to extend its most deadly active mission for peacekeepers for another year, those working closely with its venture in Mali say poor local collaboration and funding gaps are costing lives. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the Security Council to approve 2,500 extra troops and police for the Mali force, known ...

  BENGHAZI / AP Militants from the IS group have barricaded themselves in the center of their stronghold in Libya’s coastal city of Sirte, hoping to draw militias fighting to dislodge them into a protracted street battle, a spokesman for the fighters loyal to the UN-backed government said on Sunday. Brig-Gen. Mohammed Al Ghasri said the militants have fallen back ...

  Bloomberg Kenya’s national assembly wants to give the East African nation’s supreme court more time to settle presidential election disputes and reform the Independent and Electoral and Boundaries Commission to ease concerns of the opposition party that have spurred nationwide protests and left at least five people dead. The draft proposes to give the supreme court 30 days, up ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The summer travelling season has kicked off with a bang and, with Dubai Airports reporting ever-increasing numbers of travellers month on month, drawing in an impressive 7.24 million passengers in March of this year, travel insurance providers are preparing themselves for the surge in claims. A recent survey found that as many as 80 per ...

  Emirates Business Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HBMSU) recently underscored the crucial role of smart learning in the contemporary world during the prestigious 11th eLearning Africa, the latest edition of the Africa’s largest key networking conference on technology-driven style of learning. HBMSU joined the prestigious event as a partner, held in Cairo, Egypt in accordance with its mission of ...

  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Researchers from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology have leveraged the unique capabilities of additive manufacturing — or 3-dimensional (3D) printing — to design strong, ultra-lightweight ‘architectured foam’ structures that have the potential to make vehicle bodies much lighter and stronger and improve water production and oil and gas operations. The novel foams ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business The Startup Focus Program supports more than 3,400 startups worldwide, providing startups with free access to tools, support, and training to develop innovations on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, and bring them to market in an ecosystem of 2 million people and 310,000 customers in 190 countries. The SAP Training and Development Institute launched the ...

  According to Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek, Russia is pursuing a “divide and conquer” policy in Europe by trying to boost the eurosceptic populists. “It’s regularly discussed,” Zaoralek told Financial Times. “We have no doubt Russia is finding ways to finance this.” Others before him have made similar allegations but, like Zaoralek, they have been unable to produce proof ...