Israeli jets hit Iranian
military sites in Syria
JERUSALEM, Jan 21: Israeli jets struck a series of Iranian military targets in Syria early on Monday, the military said in a rare departure from its years-long policy of ambiguity regarding activities in neighboring war-torn Syria. The military said the targets included munition storage facilities, an intelligence site and a military training camp. — AP
Russia opens civil cases
against Facebook-Twitter
MOSCOW, Jan 21: Russia's communication watchdog said on Monday it was opening administrative proceedings against Twitter and Facebook for failing to explain how they plan to comply with local data laws, the Interfax news agency reported. Roskomnadzor, the watchdog, was quoted as saying that Twitter and Facebook had not explained how and when they would comply with legislation that requires all servers used to store Russians' personal data to be located in Russia. — Reuters
Iraq says goodbye to al-Gailani
BAGHDAD, Jan 21: Iraq on Monday mourned the loss of Lamia al-Gailani, a beloved archaeologist who helped rebuild the Baghdad museum after it was looted following the 2003 US-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein. Al-Gailani, who died in Amman, Jordan, on Friday at the age of 80, was one of Iraq's first women to excavate the country's archaeological heritage. — AP
Total lunar eclipse with supermoon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Jan 21: The only total lunar eclipse this year and next came with a supermoon bonus. On Sunday night, the moon, Earth and sun lined up to create the eclipse, which was visible throughout North and South America, where skies were clear. There won't be another until the year 2021. It was also the year's first supermoon, when a full moon appears a little bigger and brighter thanks to its slightly closer position. — AP
Lion kills man after scaling zoo wall
NEW DELHI, Jan 21: An Indian man was mauled to death by a lion after he scaled the wall of a zoo in northern Punjab state, officials said on Monday. The man climbed the 20-foot (six-metre) wall of Chhatbir Zoo, home to four lions, on Sunday and entered the restricted area where he was attacked. "He was an intruder in the zoo. We took him to the hospital but he succumbed to his injuries," said Roshan Sunkaria from the state forest department. — AFP
France, Germany sign new treaty today
France and Germany will sign a new cooperation treaty today (Tuesday), 56 years after the first one between the two countries. France's President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel will sign the treaty in Aachen in Germany, according to a joint statement of the embassies of France and Germany issued in Dhaka on Monday. On January 22 in 1963, France's President, the General de Gaulle, and Germany's Chancellor, Dr Konrad Adenauer, signed in Paris the Elysee Treaty on cooperation between the two countries. — Release
Colombian rebels attack police academy
HAVANA, Jan 21: Colombia's leftist ELN rebels have claimed responsibility for the bombing of a police academy in Bogota that killed 20 people as well as the attacker, and derailed peace talks being held in Cuba. "The operation carried out against these installations and troops is lawful within the law of war, there were no non-combatant victims," the National Liberation Army said in a statement released early Monday on its website. — AFP
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