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Police have pressed charges against eight suspects over the bloody militant attack on Gulshan’s Holey Artisan Bakery, which led to the deaths of 20 hostages, mostly foreigners.   The charge sheet has been placed before a local court on Monday morning after all formalities were completed, said Police Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit Chief Monirul Islam, whose unit led ...

New Delhi, Jul 23 : A fire at a residential building early Monday killed five people in northern India, police said. The fire broke out from an apartment building early in the morning in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, said Dinesh Kumar, a police official. Television channels showed plume of smoke engulfing the area as fire tenders worked to douse ...

Tokyo, Jul 23 : Japanese media say a city north of Tokyo has reached the highest temperature ever recorded in the country. The temperature hit 41.1 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit) in Kumagaya on Monday afternoon. Japan and South Korea are in the middle of an extended heat wave. Japan’s Kyodo News agency has tallied more than 40 deaths in ...

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J., Sunday, July 22, 2018, en route to Washington after staying at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. Washington, Jul 23 : Capping a week of drama, back tracking, a double negative and blistering statements from allies about his attitude toward Russian election interference, President Donald ...

Kabul, July 23 : Afghanistan’s first vice president, a former Uzbek warlord, escaped unharmed from an explosion near the airport as he returned home on Sunday after living in Turkey for over a year, according to security officials. Najib Danish, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said a suicide bomber carried out the attack near Kabul International Airport shortly after ...