Month: April 2016

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – Three assailants sped up to a Bangladeshi tailor’s shop by motorcycle on Saturday, dragged out the Hindu owner and hacked him to death, police said, in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Police official Abdul Jalil, quoting witnesses, said the attackers fled the scene after killing 50-year-old Nikhil Chandra Joardar outside his shop in the town of Tangail, 80 km (50 miles) northwest of the capital Dhaka. Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the killing, saying the tailor had blasphemed Prophet Mohammad, the U.S.-based monitoring service SITE said.

Austria said on Saturday it was in talks with the European Union’s executive body to extend border controls brought in last year to help stem the migrant flow. “I can confirm that we are having discussions with the EU Commission and our European partners about this,” interior ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck told AFP. Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and Sweden have all clamped down on their frontiers as the continent battles its biggest migration crisis since the end of World War II.