Reuters: Amazon.com (AMZN.O) founder Jeff Bezos is racing to pull his private space company out of start-up mode and move into production amid signals that his firm’s heavy rocket set for lift-off in 2020 may slip behind schedule, according to people familiar with the project. Blue Origin has added hundreds of engineers over the past…
Timesofisrael: The IDF announced Friday it was closing down an Israeli clinic on the Syrian border that has treated thousands of Syrians over the past year. The Mazor Ladach field clinic, whose name means “relief for the suffering,” was part of the army’s multi-faceted humanitarian relief operation, dubbed Operation Good Neighbor and launched in 2013….
Al Arabiya: The Iraqi government imposed a curfew in the town of al-Dujail in Salaheddine governorate north of the capital Baghdad, deploying security forces after clashes erupted between armed tribal militants and forces of Asa’ib Ahl al- Haq, an Iraqi Shiite militia. Salaheddine governor Ahmed al-Jabouri said that the Shiite militia enforced with a large…
Anadolu agency: The parliament on Thursday approved a legislation on the compulsory retirement of muftis appointed in the country’s Western Thrace cities of Komotini (Gumulcine) and Xanthi (Iskece). The bill proposed the compulsory retirement of 81-year-old Mufti of Komotini Mehmet Emin Sinikoglu and 78-year-old Cemali Meco, mufti of Xanthi, citing their advanced ages. The bill,…
AFP: The North China Plain, home to nearly 400 million people, could become a life-threatening inferno during future heat waves if climate change continues apace, researchers have warned. Soaring temperatures combined with high humidity — made worse by the region’s dense irrigation network — means the China’s breadbasket faces “the greatest risk to human life…
Russia Today: Satellite images are showing off just how enormous China’s almost-finished mega-bridge is. Stretching for 34 miles, it connects Hong Kong, Macau, and the mainland’s southern city of Zhuhai. The bridge is expected to become the world’s longest cross-sea bridge when it opens to traffic later this summer, cutting travel time in half for…
Hossen Sohel: Ruling out any chance of his resignation,categorically said the agitating students did not ask for his resignation in their nine-point demand. “It is the opposition BNP that pushing for my resignation not the students. BNP has been demanding the resignation of Prime Minister and the ruling government for long now. So there is…
UNB: The High Court on Thursday directed government to free space of Shishu Park in Khilgaon B-block in the capital illegally occupied by Ansar-VDP within 90 days. Besides, the HC ordered to renovate the park situated on two bigha land as a modern one. An HC bench of Justice Sheikh Hasan Arif and Justice Md…
Kabir Humayun: The government has signed agreements with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for US$500 million loan to develop a state-of-the-art 800-megawatt (MW) power plant in Khulna. Muhammad Alkama Siddiqui, additional secretary of the Economic Relations Division (ERD) under Finance Ministry and Manmohan Parkash, country director of the ADB, signed the deals yesterday on behalf…
Halima Akter: The flower can naturally make your food change colors for blue to pink to purple. It’s been for centuries in Southeast Asia as traditional medicine, because the flower itself is high in antioxidants and anthocyanins and has been linked to reducing blood pressure it’s called the butterfly pea flower, it’s also used in…