‘Turkey will soon clear all Daesh remnants from Syria’

    Anadolu Agency: Turkish forces will very soon clear all Daesh remnants from Syria, the terrorists deliberately left there and trained against Turkey, the country’s president said on Monday. “We will very soon bring peace, security, and stability east of the Euphrates River, just as we did in other regions [in Syria],” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan,…

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      US foreign, defense chiefs to travel to Delhi for high-level talks

      Sejuti Mourin: United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as well as Defense Secretary Jim Mattis are scheduled to travel to New Delhi in September for high-level talks, the Indian foreign ministry announced yesterday. New Delhi, which has sought to counter Beijing’s expanding economic and military weight in the region, has reportedly felt a lack…

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        Obama visits UK; Overshadowed by debate about leaving EU

        AP, London It’s springtime in London, but President Barack Obama might sense a chill in the air. The U.S. leader will be welcomed by British Prime Minister David Cameron and wined and dined by the royal family on a three-day visit to the U.K. that starts late Thursday. But Britain’s looming June 23 referendum about…

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          Winnie the Pooh meets the birthday Queen

          Md. Taqi Yasir Winnie-the-Pooh greets Queen Elizabeth the Second and a boy who resembles her great-grandson Prince George in a new story published last Thursday to mark and reminiscence both their 90th birthdays. The honey loving bear of A. A. Milne, who first emerged in a story in 1926, the year of the Britain’s Queen’s…

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            Alibaba launching Pakistan blockchain remittance program

            Asia Times: China’s efforts to expand domestic goods into neighboring countries have taken a blockchain-based twist with the announcement that Alibaba’s Alipay is going to launch cross-border remittances between Malaysia and Pakistan. The new service allows Pakistanis living in Malaysia to send money home using the Karachi-based Telenor Microfinance Bank’s Easypaisa digital payment solution as…

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              Citizen Fear of Exhausting Traffic Jam Even Before Ramadan

              Written by: Eshan Maitra Unbearable traffic jam has become a key identity of Dhaka city. Which tenfold during the summer and Ramadan. There is always activities regarding Eid. More rickshaw-pullers enter city for opportunity. Countless hawkers and iftaar-shops take over the busy roads. It multiplies in the afternoon. On top of it, the over-exhaustion of…

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                Nigerian newspaper wants to project Bangladesh positively

                UNB: Bangladesh High Commissioner to Nigeria Md Shameem Ahsan visited the office of the popular daily ‘The Leadership’ which wants to project Bangladesh in a positive way in Nigeria, reports Daily Asian Age. Chief Operating Officer (COO) Bamidele Fanimo along with senior journalists of the daily warmly welcomed him. While welcoming the High Commissioner for…

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                  Woman who ‘changed’ race claims her babies will be born black

                  NTV Online: A white glamour model who claims to have ‘changed’ race after having a series of tanning injections has left people stunned with her latest revelation. German model Martina Big, 30, who has been taking melanin injections for two years and now ‘identifies as a black woman’, appeared on British TV yesterday (Monday) with…

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                    Man held with 2,300 Yaba pills in Thakurgaon

                    UNB­ Detectives in a drive arrested a suspected drug trader along with 2,300 Yaba tablets from Choto Khochabari area in the district town. The arrestee was identified as Borhan Ali, 39, son of Abbas Ali, resident of Dolua village in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur district. Mohammad Moniruzzaman, superintendent of Thakurgaon Police, said a team of…

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