Burka ban to be proposed in security clampdown
Germany’s interior minister will back plans to ban the burka as part of a raft of anti-terror measures, local media say. Thomas de Maiziere also
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Hospital fire kills 12 premature babies
At least 12 premature babies have been killed in a fire at a hospital in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say. It took three hours to put out the
Ex-MP sentenced to death for war crimes in 1971
A special tribunal dealing with war crimes committed during Bangladesh’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971 on Wednesday sentenced a form
Five soldiers found drowned
The bodies of five Malian soldiers have been recovered days after the same number went missing during clashes with Ansar Dine Islamist militants, the
Putin, Erdogan agree to cement ties
Turkey and Russia have reached a clear consensus on normalising ties, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin said