Hossen Sohel: Strong action to combat climate change could cumulatively add at least $26 trillion to the world economy by 2030, according to a study published yesterday. President Donald Trump, for instance, said last year that he would pull the United States out of a global climate pact called the Paris Agreement because it would…
MEMO: A high-ranking delegation from Yemen’s Houthi rebels is reported to have recently visited Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. French Intelligence Online reported that a senior Houthi delegation led by spokesman Mohammed Abdul Salam visited the headquarters of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia in Dahiya in southern Beirut on 18 August. The delegation was accompanied by two members…
Reuters: Cambodia’s parliament on Wednesday held its first session since a July general election in which Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party claimed victory but which critics called a sham because of the lack of a viable opposition. The United Nations and Western countries have described the election as flawed after the Supreme Court last…
Sam mobile: Samsung already acknowledged months ago that it’s working on a foldable smartphone and even said that the device won’t be a gimmick. What the company hadn’t said was when we could expect it to launch this much-awaited device. It has now put all speculation related to the foldable smartphone release to rest. Samsung’s…
Andrew Fagan, Deputy Director, Human Rights Centre and Co-Director of Postgraduate Studies, School of Law, University of Essex/WION news The government of Myanmar and its de facto head, Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, are facing renewed international condemnation after two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were sentenced to seven years…
Sayeed Muhammad: Two suspected drug dealers were killed in separate incidents in what Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed was gun fights in Sadar upazila of Feni. With the latest casualties, the number of deaths stood at 223 across the country since May 12 after the government launched a crackdown on drug abusers and traders, reports…
Desk Report: Half of people in England sent a home-testing kit for bowel cancer in 2015 did not use it, according to research in the European Journal of Cancer. Fewer men than women returned the kits, which are designed to detect the disease before symptoms appear.The current screening kit requires small stool samples to be…
Victoria Bryan/Reuters We are experiencing turbulence. I use the joystick to keep the crosshairs centered. A voice in one ear of my headphones counts down: “550, 545, 540, 535, 532.” I click the joystick trigger to show I have seen the number sequence change. A red circle with the number 4 in it pops up…
Reuters: Top executives from Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc will defend their companies in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday over what lawmakers see as a failure to combat continuing foreign efforts to influence U.S. politics. Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, who will testify alongside Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, will acknowledge to the Senate…
Xinhua: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to hold talks with senior Pakistani civil and military leaders later on Wednesday, officials and diplomatic sources said. Sources familiar with the visit told Xinhua that Pompeo will lead his side in official talks with the Pakistani delegation led by Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi…