Science Alert: We’ve had chances. Lots of chances. But humanity has a history of squandering chances, despite everything we know about climate change. Despite everything riding on us addressing it. As it happens, the odds may still be in our favour. A new study estimates there’s a 64 percent chance that peak global average temperature…
Al Jazeera: United States Special Envoy on Afghan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, is due to arrive in the Pakistani capital Islamabad for talks with the country’s civilian and military leadership, as the Afghan Taliban threaten to pull out of peace talks that could see an end to the 17-year Afghan War. Khalilzad is expected to land…
Erin Cunningham/ The Washington Post The lifestyles of Iran’s privileged youths — including expensive holidays, glitzy parties and access to cash and jobs — have sparked public anger in recent months as U.S. sanctions squeeze the economy. The young elite, some with government connections, flaunt their wealth on Instagram and in the streets of the…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda has rejected Transparency International Bangladesh’s (TIB) report on the 11th parliamentary election held on December 30 last year. “We are completely rejecting the TIB report on election. It is baseless,” the CEC said while talking to reporters at his office after a programme in Dhaka…
ABS-CBN: Rihanna has sued her father for trading on her Fenty brand name and suggesting that a business venture he set up in 2017 is associated with her. The “Diamonds” singer, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, filed a lawsuit in US federal court in Los Angeles on Tuesday accusing Ronald Fenty and 2…
Frank Bruni, New York Times Op-Ed columnist/BDnews24 “Pocahontas” won’t be lonely for long. As other Democrats join Elizabeth Warren in the contest for the party’s presidential nomination, President Donald Trump will assign them their own nicknames, different from hers but just as derisive. There’s no doubt. But how much heed will we in the media…
Banglanews24: The depot for storing oil collected from vessels at ship-breaking yards at Fouzdarhat caught fire around 2pm Wednesday. Twelve fire-fighting trucks struggled to douse the flames, said Jashim Uddin, deputy assistant director of the Fire Service at Chittagong. The fire was eventually doused around 4pm. So far no casualties have been reported.
Afsan Chowdhury, Journalist and researcher/ The New Age WHILE the Awami League is celebrating and the BNP is groaning as a result of the 2018 elections and the radically one-sided results, other emotions and anxieties are noticed in the region relating to the elections. The west is concerned about the shrinkage of political space, which…
The Local, France: France is speeding up preparations for a “no deal” Brexit after the British parliament overwhelmingly rejected the agreement on the table, a French presidential source said yesterday. “The scenario we don’t want is a no deal and the risks multiplied yesterday,” the source said. “The prime minister will meet tomorrow with the…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT In a significant development, police on Tuesday night arrested the main suspect from Tongi in Gazipur district in a case filed over the murders of LGBT magazine editor Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Tanoy in 2016, reports UNB. Assadullah, the arrestee, was caught during a raid by the counter-terror police…