Hossen Sohel: The European Parliament votes yesterday on a highly complex online copyright law that has split natural political bedfellows and pitted music and news companies against Google and Facebook, reports AFP. EU lawmakers are divided on the issue even within their usual ideological camps, and a jamboree of lobbying around the Strasbourg session has…
Russia Today Greece’s top military brass have fired off a set of unusually stern warnings to Turkey, threatening to crush its troops if they dare to land on any disputed islet in the Aegean Sea – but Ankara didn’t mince its words either. Reacting to violations of Greek airspace by Turkish jets over the Aegean,…
Samiul Bashar Samin Economic slavery, or wage slavery, refers to one’s total and immediate dependence on wages to survive. Although people throughout history have had to work to get by, we now live in a culture where we are led to believe we have economic freedom, when unbeknownst to most citizens, we are in fact…
UNB: Switzerland has said it looks forward to its continued partnership with Bangladesh and hoped that Bangladesh will support the people’s will to move towards democracy in full respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms. “Switzerland trusts that the new government of Bangladesh will uphold the democratic values it was elected upon and that it…
Arab News : Representatives from the Afghan Taliban will meet US officials in the United Arab Emirates on Monday, the movement’s main spokesman said as diplomatic moves toward agreeing to the basis for talks to end the 17-year war in Afghanistan continue. Zabihullah Mujahid said representatives from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the UAE would also…
UNB A man was beaten to death over a loan of Tk 15,000 his brother-in-law taken from a local moneylender in Sujanagar upazila in the district on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Kashi Nath Halder, 50, son of Sannashi Halder of Bhabanipur in the upazila.
BBC: Theresa May has insisted she will not be forced into watering down her Brexit plan during negotiations with the EU. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the prime minister says she will “not be pushed” into compromises on her Chequers agreement that are not in the “national interest”. But Mrs May also warns she will…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT At least 1,441 incidents of violence against women and children occurred in the country last year, Zinat Ara Haque, executive coordinator of We Can Bangladesh, has said. Of them, 996 were women and the rest were children, with around half the incidents taking place in Dhaka division, reports The Daily Star….
BDnews24: Israeli troops killed two Palestinians and wounded scores of others taking part in weekly Gaza border protests on Friday, medics said, as Egyptian mediators tried to clinch a truce deal that would calm the impoverished enclave. In Jerusalem’s Old City, another area that Palestinians want for a future state, Israeli police said they shot…
Desk Report: The prices of most of the shares saw a downward trend in the early hour of trading Sunday as investors were mostly on selling binge, fearing further fall of stock prices. Brokers said the ongoing pessimism coupled with fear of political unrest ahead of the upcoming national election, persuading them to sell-off their…