WFP urgently needs US $66mn to provide assistance till Mar 2019   Photo: This file photo shows miserable condition of a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar. Dhaka, Oct 9 : The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Bangladesh has welcomed a new contribution of US $22.25 million from the United Kingdom that will help meet the immediate food and ...

The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded Monday to Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, former chief economist of the World Bank, for their work on the compatibility between the imperatives of innovation and the fight against global warming and economic growth.   The two winners “have developed methods that address some of the most fundamental and pressing challenges of ...

German industrial production slipped again in August, official data showed Monday, amid fears that a global trade war could erupt.   Production for August declined 0.3 percent from July, well under the expectation of a rebound of 0.15 percent forecasted by analysts surveyed by Factset financial services.  The fall was however less severe than in July when industrial production dropped ...

Pro-Russia Serb leader Milorad Dodik won a race to fill the Serb seat in Bosnia’s three-member presidency Sunday, deepening ethnic divisions in the country that faced a brutal war some 25 years ago.   Preliminary official results from the election gave Dodik 56 percent of the vote and his main opponent, Mladen Ivanic, 42 percent. The projections were made with ...

U.S. and North Korean officials are offering positive reviews for the latest meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.   In Washington, President Donald Trump tweeted that he looked forward to meeting Kim again in the near future. The state-run Korean Central News Agency is calling the talks between Pompeo and Kim ...

Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who disappeared last week after a visit to his country’s consulate in Turkey, was once a Saudi insider. A close aide to the kingdom’s former spy chief, he had been a leading voice in the country’s prominent dailies, including the main English newspapers.   Now the 59-year-old journalist and contributor to The Washington Post is ...

China has confirmed it is holding the missing head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei.   Beijing said he was under investigation by the country’s anti-corruption body for unspecified breaches of the law.  Meng, also a vice-minister of public security in China, was reported missing after travelling from the city of Lyon in France, where Interpol is based, to China on 25 ...

At least 20 people were killed in an accident in upstate New York, authorities said Sunday.   The two-car crash happened shortly before 2 pm Saturday in Schoharie, town supervisor Alan Tavenner said in a statement.  One of the vehicles involved was a limo, the National Transportation Safety Board said.   The NTSB tweeted Sunday morning that it is sending ...

Bangladesh has been ranked fifth largest internet using country in Asia, according to recent data released by the Internet World Stats.   Over 80 million people had access to the internet in Bangladesh in December of 2017, which was 0.1 million in 2000. The internet has grown widely in all parts of the world in what is termed as the ...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wrapped up his fourth visit to North Korea after meeting Kim Jong Un to seek elusive progress in efforts to persuade him to give up his nuclear weapons. Pompeo tweeted on his arrival in Seoul that he had met with Kim and that they “continue to make progress on agreements made at Singapore Summit.” ...