The Hill: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is considering an offer to appear before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, his lawyer said on Thursday. “The U.S. Senate Select Committee request confirms their interest in hearing from Mr Assange,” his lawyer Jennifer Robinson said in a statement….
Sabah Mannan Cox’s Bazar, one of the longest beaches in the world has begun to lose its beauty due to unplanned growth of hotels, motels, studio apartments etc. Developers said that is very important to make planned arrangements to the city of the most attractive beach of Bangladesh. The beach town of Cox’s Bazar is…
EurekAlert: Sleep is known to allow animals to re-energize themselves and consolidate memories. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a mysterious stage of sleep in which animals dream, is known to play an important role in maintaining a healthy mental and physical life, but the molecular mechanisms behind this state are barely understood. Now, an international…
Syed Nasir Ershad We are undergoing a huge humanitarian crisis and the world recognizes this fact. The UN Refugee Agency, namely UNHCR, is concerned about the safety of a group of vulnerable Rohingya women, men and children from Myanmar, who have been living in a so-called “no man’s land” near the border between Myanmar and…
MEMO: The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov, cancelled a planned visit to the Gaza Strip scheduled for yesterday as a result of Israel’s renewed air strikes on the besieged Strip. The UN peace envoy said in a statement yesterday morning that he was “deeply alarmed by the recent…
The Guardian: Potentially worrying news for the human race. If future generations are bred from those we want to sleep with, do-gooders are dying out. No one – no matter how depraved – wants to rip the socks and Birkenstocks off anyone. Yes, if you want us to be brutal we’ll confess – when it…
AP, Hanoi Vietnam’s coast guard in a rare move has seized a Chinese vessel for allegedly intruding in its waters, state media reported Monday. The Thanh Nien newspaper said that the vessel has been towed to the northern port city of Hai Phong, and that the ship, its captain and two sailors, all Chinese, are…
Joynal Abedin speaks to DOT : The new cabinet will play an important role in the future. Sheikh Hasina will work with them to advance the country, just like she did in the past. Hopefully, the cabinet will be able to mirror the skill with which Sheikh Hasina skillfully developed the country. The people will…
Pankaj Mishra/The New York Times A wounded and swaggering identity geopolitics puts the world in grave danger. “White men,” an obscure Australian academic named Charles Henry Pearson predicted in his 1893 book “National Life and Character: A Forecast,” would be “elbowed and hustled, and perhaps even thrust aside” by people they had long regarded as…