Reuters: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled a trip to Colombia planned for next week due to the situation around the Gaza Strip, an Israeli official said on Thursday.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not give further details. Netanyahu was due to travel to the Latin American country from Aug. 6-9.Tensions…
AFP: Australia Thursday vowed to “vehemently” oppose a new push by Japan to undermine a global moratorium on commercial whaling, and urged like-minded nations to stand firm against Tokyo. Japan has regularly sought an easing of the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) prohibition on commercial whaling and continues to kill the animals under what it calls…
Reuters: Spanish taxi drivers ended a six-day strike late on Wednesday after the government said it will limit licenses for online ride-hailing companies such as Uber, the latest setback for the service following global protests by taxi drivers. For almost a week, thousands of taxi drivers across the country blocked major city streets with their…
BBC: Investigators have found the flight recorders from an Aeroméxico flight, which crashed in Mexico’s northern Durango state on Tuesday. All 103 passengers and crew on board survived, but 97 were injured – two seriously.A plane’s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder – known as the “black boxes” – often hold vital clues to…
Arab News: Seoul said Thursday it had deployed a warship to Libya in an apparent show of force to secure the release of a South Korean national kidnapped along with three Filipinos in the North African country. The 4,000-ton vessel, Munmu the Great, which takes part in anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden, was…
Reuters: Southeast Asian nations hope to strike a joint agreement on cybersecurity in coming days with Russia, accused by the United States of meddling in its elections, after a series of high-profile hacks in the region. The draft of a document seen by Reuters discusses formalizing an agreement with Russia. It is set to be…
Reuters: China on Thursday urged the United States to “calm down” and return to reason after the Trump administration sought to ratchet up pressure for trade concessions by proposing a higher 25-percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump directed the increase…
Kabir Humayun: Transport owners have remained bus movement on all routes of Mymensingh and Sylhet suspended since Thursday morning citing security reasons. Mymensingh District Transport Owners’ Association on Wednesday night took decision to refrain from operating buses to Dhaka, reports Observer. Bikash Sarker, secretary of bus department under Transport Owners’ Association, said “The agitating students…
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has been the Centre’s fiercest critic over the updated Assam citizen list, which leaves out names of nearly 40 lakh people and plans to crackdown on illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. But 13 years ago in 2005, the Trinamool chief took an entirely opposite stand over the same issue. Mamata…
Reuters: The Philippine military said on Thursday it has arrested a Muslim cleric who knew in advance about a bomb that killed 11 people on Basilan island in an attack earlier this week that raised fears of Islamic State involvement. Acting on a tip off, scout rangers raided the home of Indalin Jainul, alias Ustadz…