Hossen Sohel: Austr-alian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s own party defied his wishes yesterday by nominating a former diplomat instead of a female candidate to run in a crucial by-election for a seat that belonged to the man he deposed in a leadership coup, reports Reuters. Morrison’s Liberal party, the senior partner in a Liberal-National coalition,…
Reuters: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez published the results of plagiarism tests on his doctoral thesis on Friday in response to pressure over alleged academic misdemeanors which have buffeted the country’s politics. Sanchez, who took advantage of a long-running corruption scandal to topple his predecessor in a confidence vote in June, threatened to take legal…
Reuters: The bodies of 21 people thought to be migrants trying to reach Spain have washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean this month, the U.N. migration agency said in statement on Friday. The latest deaths bring the total of Mediterranean migrant deaths this year to 1,586, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said….
Nahian Arefin: Japan tried its best to recover the power stations of the northern island of Hokkaido which were damaged by a devastating earthquake. The government tried their best to generate the stations before winter because Hokkaido’s temperature regularly drops well below zero in colder months. Work is going on rapidly to bring back the…
Hossen Sohel: Former first lady Kulsoom Nawaz was laid to rest after her remains reached the provincial capital yesterday, reports The Express Tribune. Kulsoom breathed her last on Tuesday after a protracted battle with cancer. Brother-in-law Shehbaz Sharif, daughter Asma Nawaz, sons of Hussain Nawaz and other Sharif family members accompanied the body from London…
M Humayun Kabir: Raising a finger on BNP’s source of money for hiring a lobbyist to influence the US administration, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said they will not bow down to anybody’s pressure. “Where does BNP get so much money? We will not bow down to anybody’s pressure,” Quader said. Quader, also the…
Reuters: Turkey is working to achieve a ceasefire in Syria’s rebel-held northwest and is ready for cooperation to fight terrorist groups in the Idlib area, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Pakistani counterpart, Cavusoglu said Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will speak with Russian President Vladimir…
Reuters: A spokeswoman for Angela Merkel said on Friday she could not comment on reports that the chancellor had lost confidence in Germany’s embattled domestic intelligence chief. “I still can’t say anything on that,” Ulrike Demmer told a news conference, pointing to an agreement reached on Thursday between the leaders of the three parties in…
Reuters: China’s foreign minister and the head of the National Development and Reform Commission held a meeting on Friday with visiting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. Relevant departments and companies from the two nations signed multiple agreements during the meeting, the ministry said, without giving details. Maduro…
Reuters: The Kremlin said on Friday it would review any British request to interview the two men London suspects of trying to murder a former spy in strict accordance with Russian law, but said it had not received any such request. Britain has charged the two men, who appeared on Russian TV on Thursday, with…