Hasina arrested over charges of extortion Hasina has been accused of extorting about Taka 30 million (US$441,000) from a company in return for allowing it to build a power station while she was in office.
India-Myanmar copter sale under Amnesty fire Amnesty and other NGOs, including Saferworld, said they had credible information indicating that the ALH sale is a mockery of the EU arms and trade restrictions on Myanmar, because the aircrafts components are made by EU members.
Radiation leak at one of worlds biggest nuclear plants
Japan quake kills 7, injures 750 A strong earthquake flattened houses in northwestern Japan on Monday, killing at least six people, forcing the evacuation of thousands and sparking a small fire at the worlds biggest nuclear power plant.
N Korea reactor shut, confirms IAEA North Korea said over the weekend it had shut its Soviet-era Yongbyon nuclear reactor, which provides the secretive state with material for arms-grade plutonium, around the time it received the first shipment of 6,200 metric tons of oil provided by Seoul as part of an aid-for-disarmament deal.
Suicide bomb kills 85 in Kirkuk
The blast, near an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan of Iraqi President Jalal Talaban, was one of several attacks in Kirkuk that is supposed to vote this year on whether to join semi-autonomous Kurdistan.
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