BANGLADESH A court in Dhaka has placed a publishing house owner and two other people on remand for publishing books alleged to hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims. The court made the order yesterday after police produced publisher Shamsuzzoha Manik and two others. The arrests were made after some readers complained that the books discussed sex and perversion of Muslims.
PHILIPPINES Military officials say suspected communist guerrillas have killed six policemen and wounded eight others in an ambush in the northern Philippines in the latest flare-up of the decades-old Marxist insurgency.
SYRIA President Putin’s spokesman denies claims Russian warplanes struck hospitals in northern Syria. France and Turkey have said that air strikes on hospitals in northern Syria constitute war crimes. Up to 50 people were killed in missile attacks on schools and hospitals in the region, the UN said.
RUSSIA An explosion of natural gas in a five-story apartment building in a central Russian city has killed at least six people, including two children, and injured nine others, the emergency services said. The explosion in Yaroslavl, a city 250 kilometers northeast of Moscow, destroyed five apartments and damaged 20 others in the building.
USA As Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders compete for every vote before Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, they are looking for support among members of the nation’s fastest-growing ethnic group. Asian-Americans comprise six percent of the U.S. population.
USA An Arizona man set for trial this week is believed to be the first person the U.S. government has tried on terror charges linked to the Islamic State group. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 44, is accused of providing the guns used in an attack at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas last year.
ZIKA People in the Americas are already alarmed by the suspected link between the Zika epidemic and birth defects, and now frontline physicians believe a surge in Guillain-Barre paralysis cases may also be related.
CHILE An estimated 150,000 Adelie penguins have been wiped out on Antarctica’s Cape Denison in the five years since a giant iceberg blocked their main access to food – a study recently published in the journal Antarctic Science reveals.
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