Al Jazeera: Paraguay will return its embassy back to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem, reversing a contentious decision taken months ago by the previous government. “Paraguay wants to contribute to an intensification of regional diplomatic efforts to achieve a broad, fair and lasting peace in the Middle East,” Foreign Minister Luis Alberto Castiglioni said on Wednesday….
Russia Today: If you had any lingering doubt that Facebook has become little more than a vehicle for US government censorship and Western propaganda, a recent Washington Post op-ed by Mark Zuckerberg should remove any ambiguity. In his short and snappy op-ed, Mark Zuckerberg admits that “protecting democracy” is an “arms race” and reaffirms Facebook’s…
Channelnewsasia: Beijing expressed anger on Thursday after a British Royal Navy warship sailed close to islands claimed by China in the South China Sea late last month, saying Britain was engaged in “provocation” and that it had lodged a strong complaint. The HMS Albion, a 22,000 ton amphibious warship carrying a contingent of Royal Marines,…
Reuters: A South Sudanese military court on Thursday sentenced 10 soldiers to prison for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a journalist in an assault on a hotel in Juba in 2016, and ordered the government to pay compensation to the victims. The attack, one of the worst on aid workers…
Channelnewsasia: Japan’s Kansai airport will reopen partially on Friday, the government said Thursday (Sep 6), after a massive typhoon flooded parts of the transport hub and swept a tanker onto the only bridge connecting it to the mainland. The collision left the airport, which is on an artificial island, temporarily cut off, stranding thousands of…
Russia Today: US President Donald Trump has denied he wanted to kill Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a key claim in a new book by renowned Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward. “That was never even contemplated,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday as he met with the emir of Kuwait. According to…
Al Arabiya: Several cyber-security companies reported that Iran is leading a huge network as part of “influencing campaigns” on several countries to market its nuclear agreement or to propagate the Iranian regime’s discourse. The Iranian influence campaigns targets online users around the world at a much larger scale than what was once thought. It includes…
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the country’s drawback in power sector during BNP regime was unprecedented. “I don’t know whether people of any country have such a bitter experience,” she said while inaugurating National Power and Energy Week 2018 at a function at Bashundhara City International Convention Center in the city,…
Dawn Foster, Guardian columnist/ The Guardian, UK After an accident my local parishioners surrounded me with love – our society needs that spirit of closeness more than ever Have you written a will?” my doctor asked, matter-of-factly, while taking my blood pressure last Saturday, in the same tone you’d use to ask someone whether it…
Kabir Humayun: A Dhaka special court deferred to October 18 the hearing of forming charge in Gatco graft case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Lawyers of two other accused — Tanvir Ahmed and Galib Hossain — of the same case pleaded for adjourning the hearing as the High Court earlier issued stay order for the…