Countering violent extremism depends on Muslim support: Obama
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday called on American Muslim communities to do more to counter what he called “violent extremism,” speaking at a three-day White House summit on the issue. Critics have accused the White House of shying away from tying extremism to the religion of... read more »
Danish intelligence was alerted by police on the attacker
Denmark’s domestic intelligence service acknowledged on Tuesday that prison officials alerted the agency last year to the suspected gunman in last weekend’s shooting attacks that killed two people and wounded five in Copenhagen. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service, known by its Danish... read more »
Jamaat leader sentenced to death in Bangladesh
A top leader of Jamaat-e-Islami party was sentenced to death on Wednesday by a special tribunal in Bangladesh for crimes against humanity during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971. Abdus Subhan, in his early 80s, was sentenced by the three-member International Crimes Tribunal-2 in Dhaka,... read more »
More reforms on the anvil: Sushma
The new Indian government will unveil more reforms in the coming days, including in the forthcoming budget this month to woo foreign investment and make India a manufacturing destination, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said. Addressing a gathering of the Indian diaspora here in the... read more »
