BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir speaking at a ceremony organised for collecting members by Jatiyatabadi Dal, Dhaka Mahanagar Uttar in Maulana Bhasani auditorium in the city on Monday.

US intelligence reports warn of extremist threat around election

Reuters, Washington :U.S. security officials are warning that violent domestic extremists pose a threat to the presidential election next month, amid what one official called a “witch’s brew” of rising political tensions, civil unrest and foreign disinformation campaigns.FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memos say threats by domestic extremists to election-related targets will likely increase in the run-up to the Nov. 3 election.Those warnings so far have largely remained internal. But New Jersey’s homeland security office took the...

30 Sep 2020, 12:00 am