Imad Shakour/Middle East Monitor Israel is a very modern country: a strong army, an advanced economy, a modern society and one of the world’s most powerful countries in innovation and scientific development in the field of high technology and nanotechnology. However, the most important thing Israel produces is news, as it is the largest news…
Hossen Sohel: Top officials from the US and EU met in Brussels yesterday in an effort to iron out differences on trade talks announced to great fanfare this summer, reports AFP. US President Donald Trump and European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker in July pledged to hold off from further tit-for-tat tariffs and to work towards…
AFP Walt Disney Studios is again ending the year on a high note, posting more than $7 billion in global box office earnings, thanks to hits such as “Black Panther” and “Avengers: Infinity War.” “This is only the second time in history any studio has surpassed the $7 billion mark, after Disney’s own industry-record 2016…
Ummul Wara Sweety India was strategically successful in making both Bangladeshi major parties happy by the planned visit of their Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj. Each parties have affirmed their own meeting to be ‘very important’ regarding their own agendas and currently at peace about it, said politics researchers Prof. Dr. Emajuddin Ahmed.Though, India…
Reuters: The United Nations called on Russia, Iran and Turkey on Thursday to forestall a battle in Syria’s Idlib province which would affect millions of civilians and could see both sides using chlorine as a chemical weapon. U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told reporters that there was a high concentration of foreign fighters in…
Raj Abrar: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has announced that the time has come for every concerned citizen of the country to standup, resist and protest against the ‘oppression of the ruling party’. The senior BNP leader made the remarks while inaugurating a music album created by BNP national executive committee member Masud Arun…
DOT Desk: Glove-making Malaysian company WRP Asia Pacific, that is accused of abusing Bangladeshi and Nepali workers, will face 42 charges, said Malaysian Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran. He said among the charges were failure in providing proper living condition for its Bangladeshi and Nepali workers and not paying in time — which resulted in…
Abrar Hussain: Myan-mar has received worldwide condemnation after it handed down a 7-year jail sentence to two Reuters journalists while they were investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims. Reuters has condemned it as a travesty of justice and severe blow to press freedom in the south-east Asian country. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo,…
Myisha Nawar What does hard liquor, cigarettes, heroin and crack have in common? They are all concentrated forms of less addictive predecessors. Most of all things we describe as ‘addictive’ are. And the frightening thing is, the process that created them is accelerating. We wouldn’t want to stop it-it’s the same process that cures diseases:…
Al Jazeera Dozens of Iraqi men and boys have been forcibly disappeared by Iraqi security forces since 2014, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). In a report published on Thursday, the rights group said 74 mostly Sunni Arab men and four boys had been disappeared between April 2014 and October 2017, often in the context…