B’desh building collapse kills 82
An eight-storey building on the outskirts of
Dhaka containing several garment factories and thousands of workers
collapsed yesterday, killing at least 82 people with many more
feared dead. Only the ground floor of the Rana Plaza in the town of
Savar outside the Bangladesh capital remained intact when the block
-- which one minister said was illegally constructed -- imploded at
about 9.00 am.
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Hackers cause panic with ‘Obama injured’ AP tweet
Hackers spooked markets Tuesday after breaking
into the Associated Press’s Twitter account and falsely reporting
President Barack Obama had been injured after two blasts at the
White House. A brief alert on the news agency’s @AP account read:
“Breaking: Two explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is
injured.”
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Indian man held for selling baby grandson on Facebook
Police in northern India said Wednesday they had
arrested a 47-year-old man for selling his newborn grandson to a
local businessman in a deal that was struck on Facebook. Feroz Khan,
a resident of Ludhiana city in the northern state of Punjab 300
kilometres (200 miles) from New Delhi, had allegedly kidnapped his
grandson shortly after he was born earlier this month.
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Sharp rise in civilian casualties in Afghanistan - UN
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose by
almost 30 percent in the first three months of 2013, a UN envoy has
said, describing a recent Taliban attack on court staff as a “war
crime”. Jan Kubis, UN special representative for Afghanistan, said
the “troubling” rise, compared to the same period last year,
followed a 12 percent drop in civilian casualties over the whole of
2012. He told a NATO ministerial briefing in Brussels on Tuesday
that 475 civilians were killed and 872 wounded from January to
March.
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