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British investors buy Spain’s €1bn Don Quixote airport for just £7,000
19Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

British investors buy Spain’s €1bn Don Quixote airport for just £7,000

    Premium 'Ghost airport' worth €1bn sold for just & euro;10K Spain's "ghost airport" - that cost hundreds of millions of euros to build and which became a notorious symbol of the excess of the country's bonanza years has been sold to a group of British and Asian investors for just €10,000 (£7,000). Ciudad Real airport airport, in the central Castilla-La Mancha region, has been closed since 2012, despite opening only four years prior to closure. The regional authorities raised an estimated €1billion in private investment to build it. They had hoped it would draw millions of visitors each year to Ciudad Real and the surrounding area, which is known as the home of Miguel de Cervantes’s fictional knight Don Quixote. But the airport itself soon became seen as...
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UK to help destroy Islamic State: Cameron
19Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

UK to help destroy Islamic State: Cameron

    Britain is committed to working with the US to destroy the "caliphate" set up by Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, the prime minister has said. David Cameron told US TV network NBC he wanted the UK to do more but said he needed to "take Parliament with him". MPs voted against proposed military action in Syria two years ago. Lord Richards, former chief of defence staff, called for a new strategy to defeat IS, saying he suspected ground troops would be deployed in the future. Mr Cameron is due to use a speech on Monday to warn young Britons tempted to join IS fighters they will end up as little more than "cannon fodder". "If you are a boy, they will brainwash you, strap bombs to your body and blow you up. If you are a girl, they will enslave and abuse you," he...
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David Cameron knew UK pilots were bombing Isis in Syria
17Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

David Cameron knew UK pilots were bombing Isis in Syria

    US Navy F-18E Super Hornets, which have been used to strike Isis targets in Syria. It is not known what planes British pilots have used to carry out strikes. David Cameron knew UK pilots were involved in US-led bombing missions of Isis targets in Syria, even though parliament had expressly rejected British military involvement in the country in 2013. The prime minister’s spokeswoman said on Friday that up to a dozen pilots had been involved since September, but they were not operating under a British chain of command. “The PM was aware that UK personnel were involved in US operations and what they were doing.” She said it was a long-standing practice for the UK to embed forces with other countries and this was no different. But she was not able to point immediately to...
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Another accused held in Sylhet over Rajon murder
17Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Another accused held in Sylhet over Rajon murder

    Police arrested another accused in connection with the murder of teenage boy Rajon from Sheikhpara of Sylhet on Friday morning, rising the number of arrestees to eight. The arrestee was identified as Ali Haider. Officer-in-charge of Jalalabad Police Station Akhter Hossain said local people caught Haider around 11:30 am and handed him over to police. Earlier on July 8, the 13-year-old boy, Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon, son of Sheikh Azizur Rahman of Badeali village in Sadar upazila, was brutally tortured to death over a theft at Sundar Ali Market in Kumargaon area of the city. The killers themselves took the video footage of the incident and uploaded it on the internet. The video clip went viral on social networking site Facebook and video-sharing site Youtube which cause...
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Man Arrested Over Car Crash Stabbing Death
17Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Man Arrested Over Car Crash Stabbing Death

    A 34-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a 79-year-old motorist in West Sussex. Donald Lock was stabbed multiple times on the A24 in Findon after his car collided with the rear of another on Thursday night. Armed officers arrested the suspect, from Worthing, at around 2pm on Friday. Video footage showed paramedics treating the grandfather at the side of the road. An air ambulance also landed nearby and the crew took over Mr Lock's treatment, but he died at the scene. Mr Lock's grandson, Ashley Goodlad, posted on Facebook: "He was the kindest, softest and most generous man you could ever wish to meet, it's just so confusing right now just trying to work out an answer for why this has happened." John Lucas, a long-time friend, said ...
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Eid Away From Home
16Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

Eid Away From Home

    Rayaan Ibtesham Chowdhury: There are a number of things that come together to make Eid as special as it is. Would the end of Ramadan be this special if we spent it alone, away from friends and family? Probably not. After all, Eid has always been about bonding and catching up. But when reality strikes and some of us have to be away from home on this special day, experiences can vary greatly. This Eid, SHOUT caught up with several young Bangladeshis studying abroad about their experiences of celebrating Eid away from home. Here's what they had to say. AUSTRALIA S.M. Shafqat Shafiq is pursuing a double major in Engineering and Commerce at the University of Sydney, Australia. Like in all countries where Muslims are a minority, the local mosque becomes the centre of all Ei...
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MPs To Get 10% Backdated Pay Rise To £74,000
16Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

MPs To Get 10% Backdated Pay Rise To £74,000

    MPs are to get a 10% pay hike to £74,000 despite a 1% cap on the pay of public sector workers. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) announced the move despite fierce opposition from public sector trade unions and some ministers and MPs. David Cameron previously claimed the proposals were "unacceptable," but Downing Street admitted last month the Prime Minister would would not attempt to block the move and would personally accept the money. The increase has been backdated to May 8 and any MP elected before 2015 will also see an increase to their pensions which are linked to their basic salaries. Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of IPSA, explained the increase was due MPs salaries previously having been supplemented by "an opaque an discredited system of...
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8 insane ways your phone and computer can be hacked
12Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

8 insane ways your phone and computer can be hacked

    ZhouHacking is the new spying. And, as we've learned time and time again, both government and private organizations are using cyber-spy techniques to gain as much intelligence as they can. But getting this data can be difficult. In fact, some of the most previous of digital information is safeguarded by machines that have no contact with the outside world. So can this internet-less data be hacked? Well, yes. With some help from the research of the security firm Kaspersky Lab, as well as some of our own personal digging, here's a look into some of the insane and creepy technologies used to hack offline devices. Both the US and the USSR have spent decades looking into the electromagnetic radiation that an electronic device emits. Kaspersky Lab writes that once a device...
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How Russia’s labor migration policy is fueling the Islamic State
12Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

How Russia’s labor migration policy is fueling the Islamic State

    When American-trained Tajik special forces commander Col. Gumurod Khalimov defected to the Islamic State a few weeks ago, he issued a clarion call for hundreds of thousands of his countrymen working as migrant laborers in Russia to follow him. “Stop serving the infidels,” he said in a video that appeared online, prompting the Tajik government to block access to Facebook, YouTube and other social networks for several days. But local migrants and religious advocates say that if the Islamic State is recruiting from Tajikistan, it is driven more by economics than ideology. Since the start of the year, a new Russian migration law has required foreign workers from countries outside the Eurasian Economic Union customs bloc to pass Russian language and history tests, acquire ...
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British schoolgirl ‘marries Australian Islamic State fighter in Syria’
12Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, ENGLISH

British schoolgirl ‘marries Australian Islamic State fighter in Syria’

    Amira Abase, who fled Britain in February with two friends, has reportedly married Abdullah Elmir A British schoolgirl who fled to Syria to join Islamic State (Isil) has reportedly married a notorious Australian -born jihadist who threatened to carry out attacks in Britain. Amira Abase, 16, left the UK in February with two friends and was tracked down earlier this month by the Telegraph to Raqqa . There, she has reportedly married Abdullah Elmir, one of the youngest Western fighters to have joined Isil. Dubbed “the Ginger Jihadi” due to his hair colour, he fled Sydney last year for Syria and has since appeared in several Isil propaganda videos. Elmir sent a message to the Mail on Sunday newspaper confirming he had married Abase. He also threatened attacks in the...
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