Pyth Minor girl killed, 3 hurt in roadside blast in northwest Pakistan
North Korea said on Saturday it has deported an American veteran of the Korean War who had been detained in the country since October for what Pyongyang described as hostile acts against the communist country. Merrill Newman, an 85-year-old from California, was deported from a humanitarian viewpoint , the North s official Korean Central News Agency KCNA said, citing his sincere repentance as well as his age and health condition. Newman, who has a heart condition, w
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stanley cup before take-off from the North Korean capital. The release came as US vice-president Joe Biden visited South Korea, the last stop on a three-country Asia tour that has already taken him to Japan and China. Last week Pyongyang for the first time officially admitted holding Newman, saying he was detained for hostile acts after entering the country under the guise of a tourist . North Korea had accused him of committing crimes both as a tourist and during his participation in the Korean War. The North also claimed that Newman masterminded espionage and subversive activities during the war and was involved in the killing of North Korean soldiers and innocent civilians. Newsman, a retired financial executive who spent time in North Korea
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Fourty-eight hours after the sepoy mutiny in Dhaka and a day after the army took control of the Bangladesh Rifles BDR headquarters in the capitals Peelkhana area, the extent of the brutality is gradually unfolding. HT Image On Friday, the army recovered the bodies of 34 officers from a single mass grave dug inside the BDR campus. BDR chief Maj Gen Shakil Ahmeds body was fished out of a ditch near the conference hall. With this, the mutinys official toll stood at 67, though army officers combing the compound say many more could have been dumped in mass graves or simply thrown into the canal that runs by the BDR campus. In a gesture aimed at quelling growing army anger against the BDR, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced a two-day mourning. The chief of the countrys fire service, Brig Gen Abu Nayeem Md Shahidullah, who identified the body of the BDR chief, recounted the brutality of the border force. Maj Gen Shakil had not only taken bullet shots, his body was dumped in the waters after stripping him of his uniform, he told reporters. What is worrying for the Hasina regime is the fact that not only have many BDR personnel deserted their posts, they have also dumped their uniforms and gone missing. Meanwhile, Hasina said
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