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IS political wrap for heavy oil smuggling: Russian official

The militant Islamic State (IS) group is a political wrap for hefty smuggling businesses including that of oil, says the spokesman for Russia Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin. The high-level Russian official made the remarks in a column he wrote for the Izvestia newspaper, said a report published on the TASS news agency’s website. “The terrorist organisations, which are outlawed in ...

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IS executes 3,500 in Syria since declaring ‘caliphate’ ’

The Islamic State group has executed more than 3,500 people in Syria, including nearly 2,000 civilians, since declaring its “caliphate” in June last year, a monitor said Sunday. In the last month alone IS executed 53 people—including 35 civilians—in areas it controls in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The new figures from the Britain-based Observatory bring to ...

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Another danger of climate change: giant flying boulders?

One of the mysterious boulders on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas. Scientists have long debated how it got there. Eleuthera, Bahamas:  Standing atop a 60-foot cliff overlooking the Atlantic, James Hansen – the retired NASA scientist sometimes dubbed the “father of global warming” – examines two small rocks through a magnifying glass. Towering above him is the source ...

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David Cameron: Commonwealth must fight corruption and extremism

Commonwealth countries must lead the fight against extremism, corruption and climate change, David Cameron has said. Speaking after he co-chaired a meeting of 10 leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta, the PM said agreements had been made to counter online extremist “propaganda”. Corruption was a “cancer at the heart of so many problems we face”, he ...

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Grant Shapps quits amid Tory bullying claims

Grant Shapps has quit as international development minister amid claims he failed to act on allegations of bullying, Downing Street has said. Claims have engulfed the Conservatives following the apparent suicide in September of a youth activist. Mr Shapps told the prime minister the “buck should stop with me” concerning issues while he was party co-chairman. Youth organiser Mark Clarke ...

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10th Annual BCA celebrates winners

The winners of the 10th annual BCA Awards were announced at a memorable ceremony at the Park Plaza Hotel in Westminster, London on November 22nd 2015. Hosted by TV presenter Tasmin Lucia-Khan and MasterChef’s Gregg Wallace. In addition to the 10 winners of the Chef of the Year and 10 winners of restaurant of the Year accolades, three prestigious BCA ...

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Air Express is now exclusive travel partner of British Curry Award

Bangla Mirror Desk :: Community and mainstream service provider British Bangldeshi organisation Air Express has been selected as the exclusive travel partner of Oscar renowned British Curry Award. This will not only be limited in papers, rather it will turn into real life work by working in partnership in different projects together.  Air Express will be providing services in Curry ...

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Tax credit cuts SCRAPED

Bangla Mirror Desk :: George Osborne has backed down on controversial tax credit cuts which were due to cost millions of working families thousands each year. The chancellor had promised to modify his plan to cut tax credits – cuts that would have cost 3m low-income families an average of £1,000 a year. He was facing growing pressure from Tory ...

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Tower Hamlets Mayor opposes government funding cuts

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, has written to the government setting out the impact that a withdrawal of welfare funding could have to families on low incomes. Evidence was given to the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into local welfare safety nets, showing that households dependent on benefits were an average of £32 per week worse since welfare ...

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Train passengers stand up against racial abuse of Muslim woman

Bangla Mirror Desk :: A Muslim woman has thanked the public for standing up to a man who racially abused her and her sister on a packed Newcastle train. Ruhi Rahman, 23, said she was threatened when the abuser told other passengers she could bomb the train, as she sat with her sister. Other passengers on the on the Tyne ...

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