Alison Griswold/QUARTZ Not long ago, I took a Juno, one of New York City’s many ride-hail services, from my Brooklyn apartment to John F. Kennedy airport. The Juno ride I booked was a “Bliss,” the lowest-cost option the company offers. The fare I was quoted and agreed to pay at the time of booking was…
Anadolu Agency Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday the country’s oil sales have increased in November despite U.S. sanctions. “Iran’s oil sales are in good condition despite U.S. efforts to chock off the country’s oil revenues,” said in statements carried by the semi-official Mehr news agency. “Iran’s oil exports have fared much better after Nov….
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Op-Ed Columnist/BDnews24 He is an 8-year-old boy who is starving and has limbs like sticks, but Yaqoob Walid doesn’t cry or complain. He gazes stolidly ahead, tuning out everything, for in late stages of starvation the human body focuses every calorie simply on keeping the organs functioning. Yaqoob arrived unconscious…
Dr Ahmad Mustafa, Abu Dhabi-based journalist/Gulf News Media and PR industry are trespassing into each other’s territories Veteran journalists who were active before the digital age will remember the traditional relationship with Public Relations (PR) companies, which used to be a source of information for news reports. That’s no longer the case with the information…
Russia Today Pentagon accounting errors have led to the US taxpayer footing the bill for years of refueling for Saudi jets bombing Yemen. The oversight makes the US’ support for Riyadh’s air campaign even more intolerable, an analyst told RT. The Pentagon has acknowledged that the Department of Defense “failed to charge the Saudi-led coalition…
BSS The government has already imparted trainings to 113,308 people in different terms on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) aiming at creating a large number of skilled human resources to reach the digital services to the doorstep of grassroots people of the country. A total of 58,824 more people will also be trained up on…
Arab News Yemen’s government and rival Houthis announced Tuesday plans for a mass prisoner swap, exchanging some 15,000 names, as UN-brokered talks on ending the country’s war entered their seventh day. The government of Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and Yemen’s northern Houthi militia are in Sweden for talks on a devastating conflict that has pushed 14…
Sally Breen, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing, Griffith University/The Conversation, Australia When you grow up with no books in the house except maybe the full Readers Digest set of Catherine Cooksons and Bert Ryan’s Guide to Fishing you worship other heroes. The great battles in life are not going down in drama theatres, they’re…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s proposal of UN Global Compact on Migration was adopted in Marrakech, Morocco, said the Foreign Ministry yesterday. A Bangladesh delegation led by the Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque is attending the UN Summit for adoption of the Global Compact for Migration in Morocco. The delegation also includes…
Arab News Iran confirmed on Tuesday that it had carried out a recent test of a medium-range ballistic missile after Western powers sharply criticised a December 1 launch. “We are continuing our missile tests and this recent one was a significant test,” the Fars news agency reported, citing Revolutionary Guards aerospace commander Brigadier General Amirali…