Jonathan Freedland, Guardian columnist/The Guardian, UK More than 18 months into his presidency, Donald Trump’s modus operandi – and the danger it represents – is clear. His working method is that of the mafia boss and gangland chieftain, daily wielding his power to settle scores, teach lessons and crush dissent. Anyone who’s seen The Sopranos…
Nicholas Farrell, Journalist, columnist and specialist on Italy/Gulf News Italians will see it as a metaphor for the rottenness at the heart of the Italian state and of the Italian establishment. For behind the tragedy of the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa this week is a terrible truth. Hundreds, if not thousands of…
M Humayun Kabir: For-eign Minister AH Mahmood Ali attended the funeral of former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee yesterday. Vajpayee’s funeral was held at 4pm with state honors in New Delhi, BJP leaders told media in New Delhi, reports UNB. The Foreign Ministry said the government of Bangladesh is deeply shocked at the sudden…
Reuters: Riyazul Islam says he had to produce family documents going back to 1951 to prove he was an Indian and not an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant. But a draft list of citizens released in July excluded him and his mother, among a total of about 4 million people left off. A wiry 33-year-old living in…
Wio News: Typhoon Rumbia, packed torrential rains and strong winds, made a landfall in east China’s Shanghai on Friday morning, disrupting traffic, suspending ferries, flights and trains. Shanghai weather observatory on Friday morning issued a yellow alert for typhoon Rumbia, and upgraded it to orange as heavy downpour continues. China has a four-tier, color-coded weather…
Reuters: Japan must act urgently to protect tens of thousands of workers laboring to clean up the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station from reported exploitation and exposure to radiation, U.N. human rights experts said on Thursday. Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings (Tepco), which owns the nuclear power station that was struck by a tsunami…
BSS: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed deep shock at the demise of former Indian Premier Atal Bihari Vajpayee, terming him as a great friend of Bangladesh. “Atal Bihari Vajpayee was our great friend and highly respected in Bangladesh,” Sheikh Hasina said in a condolence message sent to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “We are…
M Humayun Kabir: Aw-ami League general secretary Obaidul Quader said BNP is ‘conspiring’ to create a 1/11 situation in the country ahead of the upcoming general elections. The AL leader also claimed that a section of the media was assisting BNP to this end, reports Prothom Alo. Obaidul Quader, also the road transport and bridges…
Sky News: An emotional Elon Musk has revealed the past year has been “excruciating”, with the “worst yet to come” in his personal life. The Tesla boss told the New York Times that the year “has been the most difficult and painful year of my career”. In an unusually personal and emotional interview, the electric…
Al Arabiya: Egypt is finalizing details of a long-term truce deal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, an Egyptian security source said on Thursday, amid easing tensions on the border of the enclave where some two million Palestinians live. Cairo has brokered an interim truce that has allowed commercial goods into Gaza ahead…