Aung San Suu Kyi and commander-in-chief of the Myanmar armed forces Min Aung Hlaing (File photo, collected) Amnesty International is stripping Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour, the Ambassador of Conscience Award. The politician and Nobel peace prize winner received the honour in 2009, when she was living under house arrest. The rights group ...
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CNN sues President Trump over Jim Acosta’s press pass
Photo Courtesy: cnn.com CNN has filed a lawsuit against President Trump and several of his aides, seeking the immediate restoration of chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s access to the White House. The lawsuit is a response to the White House’s suspension of Acosta’s press pass, known as a Secret Service “hard pass,” last week. The suit alleges that Acosta ...
Read More »The UK marked the end of First World War
Ansar Ahmed Ullah: The UK paid its respects and offered thanks to the generation that served in the First World War on Sunday, 11 November. The day was more poignant this year as it marked the 100thanniversary of the signing of the Armistice and so the end of hostilities on the Western Front. Soldiers of the First World War looked ...
Read More »China-backed trade deal pushed back to 2019
A China-backed bid to complete the world’s largest trade deal — without the United States — was pushed back to next year after Asia-Pacific trade ministers failed to agree key terms at a Singapore summit. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), covering half the world’s population, is billed as an antidote to President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda, which ...
Read More »California wildfires: At least 42 are killed in deadliest blaze
Thirteen more bodies have been recovered in California, bringing the death toll in the US state’s deadliest wildfires to 42, officials say. The remains were found in and around the largely incinerated town of Paradise, in the north of the state. At least 228 people are missing, as the Camp Fire continues to rage. Nearly 7,200 structures have been ...
Read More »EU, UK inch closer to a deal as Brexit hangs in the balance
In this Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018 file photo, British Prime Minister Theresa May listens as Czech Republic Prime Minister Andrej Babis speaks at the start of their meeting inside 10 Downing Street in London. Brussels, Nov 13 : Britain and the European Union appeared to be inching toward agreement on Brexit on Monday, but British Prime Minister Theresa May faced ...
Read More »Brexit: Ministers told ‘judgement day’ looms for decision
Ministers have been told “judgement day is coming” over Brexit as the UK and EU strive for a deal within 48 hours. Officials are trying to hammer out an agreement on the terms of the UK’s exit by Wednesday to enable EU leaders to agree it by the end of the month. Downing Street said talks had gone on through ...
Read More »Co2 and Trees -Climate and Bangladesh.
Fatema Miah: Co2 caused from burning trees and trees are in extinction. Where one of the main concerns in climate change about co2 Carbon dioxide emission is lessening of its phosentesis natural process to produce oxygen for our earthy living beings, and here I am talking about the trees. The main and largest photosynthesis capacitation after corals is the large ...
Read More »Election Schedule: Basically, all matters are run by Scripts.
By Shah Alam Faruk: People in power are proceeding as it was predicted! In the middile, in the name of dialogue, one and a half drama was staged.In national dialogue, which is an important matter, food items came in front, who is intaking what food, food was brought from where etc. Publication of the supplied food items, became ...
Read More »Netanyahu rushes back to Israel after burst of Gaza violence
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushing back to Israel on Monday following a sudden burst of fighting the previous night that left in doubt efforts to bring to an end months of relentless violence between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli military said an officer was killed and another was moderately wounded during an operation in the southeast Gaza ...
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