At least 11 Bangladeshi undocumented migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea while attempting to travel to Greece from Libya by sea. According to survivors, their companions perished one after another before their eyes due to a severe lack of food and water over several consecutive days, forcing them to cast the decomposing bodies into the sea.
Police have recovered the hanging body of Ashis Banerjee, a former deputy speaker of the assembly and five-time MLA, from a Trinamool Congress office in Rampurhat, Birbhum district, West Bengal. The body was recovered on Sunday morning and sent for post-mortem examination. According to Indian media outlet NDTV, a handwritten note was also found at the scene.
Hurricane Lala battered Hawaii’s Big Island with powerful winds and torrential rain on Saturday (August 15), knocking out power to more than 42,000 customers and prompting warnings of potentially life-threatening flooding and mudslides.
A powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Indonesia’s North Sumatra province on Saturday (August 16), hours after a deadly 7.7-magnitude quake hit the country’s eastern Flores region.
The prolonged deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln has raised growing concerns over the mental health and wellbeing of nearly 5,000 US sailors aboard the aircraft carrier, which has spent more than 250 consecutive days at sea amid ongoing US military operations in the Middle East.
A Bangladeshi expatriate has won Dh100,000 in the consolation prize draw of the 289th series of the UAE’s Big Ticket lottery.