Al Jazeera: Turkey’s presidential spokesperson has said a major offensive targeting Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib could cause a new refugee crisis from Turkey to Europe. “Everyone’s common point is that the solution must be political rather than military,” Ibrahim Kalin said in the capital Ankara, after a preparatory meeting with representatives of France, Germany…
Reuters: Rwanda on Saturday freed Victoire Ingabire, an opposition leader who has served six years of a 15 year jail term, after President Paul Kagame exercised his power to grant a pardon. Ingabire, who leads the unregistered FDU-Inkingi opposition party, was freed along with other prisoners, including singer Kizito Mihigo, jailed in 2015 for plotting…
USNews: The first inter-Korean summit of 2018, a sunny spectacle in late April, reduced war fears on the peninsula. The second, an emergency one in May, helped ensure a historic meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump came off. Now, at his third summit with Kim next week in Pyongyang,…
The Guardian: Lily Allen has given her first detailed account of a record industry executive sexually assaulting her as she slept, warning that similar abuse is “rife” in the music business. In a frank interview with Guardian Weekend magazine, the Brit Award winner warns that, even in the wake of the #MeToo movement, industry insiders…
Hossen Sohel: Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi will jointly kick off the ground-breaking ceremony of a cross-border oil pipeline and two key rail connectivity projects this week, reports The Daily Star. The prime ministers are expected to launch the projects via video conferencing from Dhaka and New Delhi on Tuesday,…
Sayeed Muhammad: Bang-ladesh Jatri Kalyan Samityon demanded that the representation of passengers in the proposed road transport law be ensured. The organisation, in a media release, said the bill, already placed in House, would only benefit the transport workers and owners, if no representatives from the commuters are kept in the proposed law called ‘Road…
Reuters: Trade and investment ministers from G20 countries meeting in Argentina said there was an “urgent need” to improve the World Trade Organization, a joint statement said on day before yesterday. With U.S. President Donald Trump readying tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese goods, the ministers said they were “stepping up the dialogue” on…
Utpal Dutta, Executive Assistant, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section : Is there any space, we call it cosmos too, that embraces the notion ‘purpose of life’! Does any resolution really exists that is inevitable live life! Perhaps not. We are striving for give it a meaning. Then on what we are looking for…
The Guardian: The journey towards British domination of world cycling that began in Barcelona in the summer of 1992, when Chris Boardman claimed an Olympic gold medal, is likely to climax in Madrid on Sunday if Simon Yates completes a British grand slam of European road racing’s grand tours. Assuming he survives Saturday’s final mountain…
Sayeed Muhammad: Indonesia’s tourist Lombok Island is battling malaria, authorities said yesterday, declaring a health emergency after a series of earthquakes in July and August forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. The quakes and aftershocks that killed nearly 500 people are estimated to have caused damages of $337.84 million to hospitals and public…