UK’s top Bali diplomat suspended after prisoner affair
London: Britain's senior diplomat in Bali has been suspended, the Foreign Office confirmed on Sunday, after a report of an affair with a drugs prisoner. The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported that Alys Harahap was suspended over a relationship with Julian Ponder, a Briton serving time in the Indonesian island's notorious Kerobokan prison for possession of cocaine. PTI
Egypt deports jailed Australian Al Jazeera reporter
Cairo: Egypt on Sunday ordered the deportation of jailed Australian journalist, who spent more than a year behind bars over charges of supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, state media reported. Peter Greste, 50, was sentenced to seven years in prison along with two fellow Al-Jazeera journalists. He was released after President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi signed a decree allowing his deportation. pti
US toddler playing with gun shoots parents
Houston: A three-year-old boy playing with a handgun accidentally shot his father and pregnant mother in a hotel room in New Mexico. The boy removed the handgun from his mother's purse on Saturday and fired one shot, striking his father in the lower back. The bullet apparently exited through the father's hip and hit the mother, who was eight months pregnant, in the right shoulder. PTI
Political unrest: Bangladeshi police stand guard during a nationwide strike called by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance in Dhaka on Sunday. AFP
Festivities in Iran: A young Iranian girl holds a portrait of the founder of Iran’s Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, during a ceremony marking the 36th anniversary of his return from exile, in Teheran on Sunday. Khomeini returned from exile in 1979, the trigger for a revolution which spawned an Islamic state. AFP
