Ansar Ahmed Ullah A proud Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with the rest of her family watched from the VVIP gallery of the House of Commons as her niece, Tulip Siddiq, made her maiden speech to the UK Parliament. Tulip Siddiq, daughter of Sheikh Rehana, gave a nine-minute speech dwelling on her community and her family. Tulip Siddiq is among ...

EU interior ministers are to discuss how to respond to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, with Italy threatening a strong response if no deal is reached. A key issue at the talks in Luxembourg is a plan to distribute asylum seekers more evenly across all 28 EU states. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said without agreement Italy would adopt a ...

EU interior ministers are to discuss how to respond to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, with Italy threatening a strong response if no deal is reached. A key issue at the talks in Luxembourg is a plan to distribute asylum seekers more evenly across all 28 EU states. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said without agreement Italy would adopt a ...

Greek shares fell for a third day after fears that it could leave the euro intensified and the French president warned there was “little time” to reach a deal on economic reforms. Shares on the Athens stock exchange fell by 1.3% in early trade. That was relatively benign compared with the two previous days’ falls of 4.7% and 5.9%. Ten-year ...

Djibouti, a small country on the Red Sea, is already home to military bases from the US and France, the former colonial power, but China’s interest is now becoming increasingly apparent. What makes this horn of Africa nation attractive to global military powers? Port in a storm Djibouti’s status as a model of stability in an otherwise volatile region is ...

China will complete a series of controversial land reclamation projects in the South China Sea “soon”, the foreign ministry says. The US and countries with competing claims in the area maintain that China is creating artificial islands to use as military bases. The ministry says they are for defence, but also maritime search and rescue, disaster relief and research. China ...

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebel group in the Philippines has handed over its first batch of weapons as part of a peace process. The event in Maguindanao, in Mindanao, was attended by President Benigno Aquino who hailed it as an important step forward. Seventy-five weapons will be deactivated as a gesture of MILF’s commitment to peace. In 2012, ...

The main Shia opposition leader in Bahrain, Sheikh Ali Salman, has been jailed for four years for inciting violence, state media say. Sheikh Salman was convicted of inciting hatred, promoting disobedience and “insulting” public institutions. His al-Wefaq movement has accused the Sunni-led government of aggravating the country’s crisis with his sentencing. The Gulf state has grappled with sporadic unrest since ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah Bangladesh’s’ Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was praised for development during meeting with new British MPs. Newly elected MPs to the UK parliament met Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday, 15 June, at the Westminster at a reception hosted by Keith Vaz MP. Some thirty MPs including Bengali members Rushanara Ali MP, Tulip Siddiq MP and Rupa ...

British talent swept the board at Broadway’s equivalent of the Oscars on Sunday where a lesbian coming-of-age musical and a play about a teenage math whizz each won five Tony Awards.New hit musical “An American in Paris,” adapted from the Oscar-winning classic, and Broadway’s revival of “The King and I” each picked up four Tonys, the highest honor in US ...