Channelnewsasia: United States secretary of state Mike Pompeo called on Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday (Aug 3) for talks as he concluded his two-day inaugural visit to Malaysia. During the 30-minute meeting at Perdana Putra, Pompeo – who is the most senior US official to visit Mahathir since his election victory – also…
Arab News: Three-time Formula One world champion Niki Lauda has undergone a lung transplant following an infection picked up on vacation, Vienna’s general hospital announced Thursday. “The transplant was successfully carried out,” said a brief statement from the hospital.Lauda, 69, had cut short his vacation in Ibiza last week and returned to Vienna after developing…
Kabir Humayun: Thousands of commuters suffered immensely in Dhaka, Sylhet, Chittagong and some other districts as bus owners and workers suspended operation of transport services in different districts since yesterday morning.The unofficial bus strike came citing lack of safety of the workers and vehicles due to the ongoing student movement demanding safe roads in Dhaka…
NDTV: Ahead of BJP president Amit Shah’s rally in Kolkata on August 11, the party’s youth wing chief Poonam Mahajan today said it was aimed at “exposing” West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s “U-turn” on the NRC issue. The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) is organising the rally, where Mr Shah will be the chief…
NDTV: Affirmative action will be illusory if government employees from most backward communities – scheduled caste and scheduled tribes – are not given reservations in promotions, the centre’s top law officer KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court on Friday. Mr Venugopal said SC/ST employees were presumed to be backward due to more than thousand years…
BSS: Bangladesh Bank (BB) is expected to get back around US$29 million heisted reserve from the Philippines soon since the Philippines court has already delivered a verdict in favour of the central bank. “Several cases are going on in different Philippines courts for recovering the whole money . . . The defendant has filed an…
AFP: Turkey and the US failed to resolve the diplomatic standoff over a detained pastor on Friday, with Ankara’s foreign minister warning that sanctions and threats would not work. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said ahead of talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu that Washington was “very serious” in demanding the release of Andrew…
Anadolu Agency: Hassan Shukah, a Palestinian prisoner in solitary confinement in Israel’s Ramleh Prison, entered his 67th day on hunger strike on Friday. According to the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Shukah — who is waging a hunger strike to protest his ongoing placement in what Israel calls “administrative detention” — was recently taken to Israel’s Kapalan…
Sejuti Mourin: Less than two months after the landmark US-North Korea summit in Singapore, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flew back to the city state and observed that the North’s continued work on weapons was “inconsistent” with its leader’s commitment to denuclearize. Pompeo was asked en route to Singapore about his statement in the…
VOA News: Russia is allowing thousands of fresh North Korean laborers into the country and granting new work permits in potential violation of U.N. sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. More than 10,000 new North Korean workers have registered in Russia since September, the paper said, citing records from the Russian Interior Ministry. Russia’s…