Raj Abrar: In the first anniversary of the military crackdown that led to the exodus of almost 700,000 Rohingya refugees, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday that US will continue to hold accountable those responsible for what he described as the “abhorrent ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. “A year ago,…
Wion News: Pope Francis vowed on Saturday to end the sexual exploitation of children by clergy during a highly-charged visit to once deeply Catholic Ireland and, according to victims, said the corruption and cover-up of abuse amounted to human excrement. On the first papal visit to the country in almost four decades, Francis used a…
Dr Saleh Uddin, Former Governor of Bangladesh Bank : Tanners are not interested n buying rawhides of sacrificed animals despite their retail prices being lowest in 30 years, something which is not right. It is also not right that there is no demand of rawhide in the market. Usually, 60% of the county’s rawhide comes…
Russia Today: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused the United States of waging a “psychological war” against Tehran and its business partners. US sanctions were re- imposed on August 7, just months after US President Donald Trump withdrew from the multilateral Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear…
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated Australia’s newly elected Prime Minister Scott Morrison on his assumption of office. In a message sent yesterday, she said, “On behalf of the government and the people of Bangladesh and on my own behalf, I’ve the great pleasure in extending our warmest felicitations to you on…
Arab News: Daesh on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in northern Sinai, the group’s Amaq news agency reported, saying 15 soldiers were killed or wounded in what it described as an infiltration operation. Egypt’s state news agency MENA said on Saturday that security forces foiled an attack on a…
Russia Today: Russia accused Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) of intercepting its military aircraft over the Black Sea in a dangerous fashion designed to provoke Moscow after the RAF made two such interceptions in a single week. The accusation, leveled by Russia’s embassy in London, came after the RAF intercepted a Russian maritime patrol aircraft…
Russia Today: RT’s interview with the Nordic Resistance Movement’s Swedish leader Simon Lindberg went from migrant talk to a shock endorsement of Adolf Hitler’s policies and blaming of Jews. His party is about to run in the general election. The Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) held a rally in Stockholm on Saturday, facing off counter-protesters, who…
NTV Online: Bangladesh faces the worst manmade disaster from Myanmar without any war or any conflict andthe total value of 6,000 acres of deforested land in Rohingya camps is equivalent to Tk 741.31 crore or USD 86.67 million, said a leading chamber on Sunday. The influx of Rohingyas has created a pressure on the economy…
Abrar Hussain: Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has begun another hunger strike in prison, in protest over the recent arrest of a prominent civil rights activist as well the harassment of his and her families by security forces. She announced her hunger strike yesterday in a note posted on her husband’s Facebook page….