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Thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh were left without shelter on Sunday after a fire tore through their camp in the early hours of Sunday morning. No deaths were reported from the incident, which occurred at Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar. “The fire was big, and it destroyed about 1,040 shelters in the camp,” local fire brigade chief Shafiqul Islam told the Associated Press. “We took about two hours to get the blaze under control, engaging 10 fire units from Ukhiya and other stations in the district.”Firefighters took around two hours to get the blaze under controlImage: Shafiqur Rahman/AP Photo/picture…

United Airlines says it has found loose bolts on plug doors on multiple 737 Max 9 aircraft during inspections.It comes as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced all 171 Boeing 737-9 Max aircraft will remain grounded after a window and chunk of fuselage blew out of one of its Alaska Airlines passenger planes in mid-air. Industry publication Air Current reported that United found loose bolts on other parts on at least five panels that were being inspected following the accident over the weekend.”Since we began preliminary inspections on Saturday, we have found instances that appear to relate to installation issues…

The Maldives government suspended three deputy ministers on Sunday after they mocked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media. Three officials from the Youth Ministry had called Modi a “clown,” a “terrorist,” and a “puppet of Israel” on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The President of Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, has ordered an investigation and suspended the deputy ministers pending the outcome. “The government of Maldives is aware of derogatory remarks on social media platforms against foreign leaders and high ranking individuals,” the government said in a statement. “These opinions are personal and do not represent the views…

US carrier United Airlines announced Monday that it founded loose bolts on grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 planes in its fleet. “Since we began preliminary inspections on Saturday, we have found instances that appear to relate to installation issues in the door plug _ for example, bolts that needed additional tightening,” Chicago-based United said. The plug closes a hole that could be used for an extra emergency exit door on planes configured with relatively high numbers of seats. The discovery comes after a door plug blew out on an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 on Friday, alarming regulators both in the US and abroad.…

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A sex scene from the recently released Hollywood movie “Oppenheimer” has drawn online outrage in India, after it was heavily criticized by Hindu nationalist groups.  One scene from the biographical drama about US physicist Robert Oppenheimer shows the protagonist reciting a verse from the Bhagavad Gita — one of the holiest scriptures of Hinduism — just before sexual intercourse.  He reads the line, “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”  “This is a direct assault on religious beliefs of a billion tolerant Hindus, rather it amounts to waging a war on the Hindu community,” Uday Mahurkar, a senior official at the…

It was the end of communism that first paved the way for the integration of the Roma into  Romanian society — in theory anyway. Before 1989, the authorities had practiced a policy of assimilation, and before them a fascist regime had pursued extermination. After Romania, the country with Europe’s largest Roma population, acceded to the EU in 2007, public policy towards Roma people was reshaped with a view to inclusion. And absolutely all such policies, including the World War II-era “explanations” for why the Roma were inferior, had previously centered on the problem of their inadequate formal education. Today, after more than three decades…

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said late Sunday that part of a Boeing aircraft that blew off mid-flight on Friday was located by a schoolteacher in his backyard. The piece of fuselage recovered from the yard in Portland, Oregon could provide clues as to what caused a panel used to plug a portion reserved for an exit door on an Alaska Airlines’ Boeing Max 9 jet to blow off on Friday shortly after the flight took off.  Investigators said a plug on an unused exit door seal blew off while the plane was climbing, depressurizing the aircraft at 16,000 feet (about…

Paris has honoured music legend David Bowie by naming a street after him on what would have been his 77th birthday. The Rue David Bowie – first announced in 2020 by the mayor of the city’s 13 arrondissement – was unveiled and features his year of birth (1947) and death. Bowie died after a long battle with cancer in 2016, days after his 69th birthday when he released his 25th album, called Blackstar.The tribute celebrates Bowie’s first Paris performance in 1965 – his first outside the United Kingdom – and his lasting impact on music, fashion choices, theatrical aura, and…

In 1938, two German chemists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, discovered nuclear fission. Fission is the reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei, releasing huge amounts of energy. Harness this power, physicists said, and you could create a bomb so powerful it could flatten entire cities. Almost immediately, German scientists commenced work on an atomic bomb project. Backed by a strong German industrial base and military interest, the Uranverein (uranium club) employed some of the world’s top nuclear experts.  Although the project was secret, word got out via scientists fleeing persecution in…