Hafed Al-Ghwell, Non-resident senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Institute at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies/ Arab News The Rohingya refugee crisis stunned the world when the first reports emerged of widespread ethnic cleansing in Rakhine state in Myanmar. Each new report was more alarming than the last, with stories of…
Cyril Almeida /Dawn, Pakistan FORGET the silliness about profound change and marvellousness. This is the real world and the real world, our world, is about fighting tooth and nail and maybe emerging bloodied but not broken. There have been three possible versions of Imran. One version is already dead, two possibilities remain — and together…
UNICEF Statement from UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore “The horrific attack on a bus in Sa’ada, Yemen, reportedly killing and maiming scores of children, marks a low point in the country’s brutal war. The question now is whether it will also be a turning point – the moment that must finally push the warring parties,…
M. Sanjeeb Hossain, Commonwealth Scholar and Sessional Tutor at the Warwick Law School/BDnews24 I do not think the school going kids of Bangladesh took control of the streets to topple the government as has been portrayed by some people. It was not about that, rather it was about a very legitimate demand for safer roads,…
Abrar Hussain: Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died at the age of 85, his family said. Sir Vidia, born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more than 30 books including ‘A Bend in the River’ and his masterpiece, ‘A House for Mr Biswas’. His wife, Lady Naipaul, called…
Russia Today: Beans, beans they’re good for…being stuck at sea. A US cargo ship carrying $20 million worth of soybeans has been circling in the ocean for a month because it was unlucky to arrive a few hours after tariffs kicked in. The Peak Pegasus cargo ship, owned by JPMorgan Asset Management, left Seattle for…
UNB: At least 170 houses were gutted in a fire that broke out at Maddampara in Sadar upazila on Saturday. the fire originated from the kitchen of a house around 12 pm and it soon engulfed the adjoining ones. Three fire-fighting units and locals with the help of police and army brought the fire under…
The Guardian, UK: A bed net designed to kill insecticide-resistant mosquitoes could prevent millions of cases of malaria across sub-Saharan Africa, scientists have found. A two-year clinical trial in Burkina Faso showed that dousing bed nets with a combination of chemicals resulted in a 12% reduction in clinical malaria cases, compared with conventional bed nets….
Hindustan Times: Top US generals believe the rivalry and clashes between the Taliban and Islamic State-Khorasan will help counter the growing influence in Afghanistan of the terror group led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to media reports. Intensified efforts to root out the Islamic State in Afghanistan are making progress in some areas but have…
Desk Report: World Lizard Day is celebrated on August 14 of every year. World Lizard Day is all about celebrating the Lizard all over the day. There are nearly 5600 species of Lizards alive today, and many of them are threatened species, with habitat loss and predation by non-native species like dogs and cats being…