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IS captures Kurds-bound weapons in Syria’s Ayn al-Arab: activists

The Islamic State (IS) militants captured one of the weapons shipments airdropped by the United States to the Kurdish fighters of the People Protection Units (YPG) in the city of Ayn al-Arab in northern Syria, a monitoring group said Tuesday. Two weapons shipments airdropped by the U.S. fighters landed at areas under the IS control […]

China’s GDP expands 7.3 pct in Q3

BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) — China’s economy expanded at a slower pace in the third quarter of this year, but still remained within the “reasonable range” set by policymakers, said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday. Gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 7.3 percent from a year ago in the third quarter, compared with […]

Case filed in Bangladesh against broadcast of Indian TV channels

Bangladesh’s High Court today sought an explanation from the government regarding the transmission of three Indian TV channels on a writ seeking a ban on their broadcast in the country. A two-member bench of the High Court asked the information secretary, the chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the police chief, the director general […]

Australia set to seize assets of corrupt Chinese officials

Beijing: The Australian Federal Police are poised to seize assets of corrupt Chinese officials within weeks, in an unprecedented joint operation with their Chinese counterparts. In an exclusive interview with Fairfax Media, Commander Bruce Hill, the manager of the AFP’s operations in Asia, has confirmed Australia has agreed to assist China in the extradition and […]

China, U.S. eye more cooperation on fighting Ebola

Visiting Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday agreed to enhance cooperation on fighting the Ebola epidemic, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said here after the talks. Yang noted that Ebola, which continues to spread in West Africa, has become a threat to the public health and […]

Mystery over 176 missing from people trafficker’s boat from Bangladesh

BANGKOK: Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of 176 people, including three women, who were on a people trafficker’s boat that left Bangladesh. There are fears traffickers intend to sell those on board to fishing trawlers or factories as slave labour in Malaysia and Indonesia. Bangladesh officials are travelling to southern Thailand to interview 134 suspected victims […]

More Bangladeshis found in Thailand on human trafficking route

(Reuters) – Thai police found scores of sick and exhausted boat people hiding on a remote island on Monday, and all but one of the 79 suspected human-trafficking victims were from Bangladesh, according to local officials. The discovery brings to more than 130 the number of people found since Saturday in the province of Phang […]

Cyclone Hudhud makes landfall in India

Indian authorities were evacuating hundreds of thousands of people as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal and made landfall on the east coast. Officials were stockpiling emergency supplies and rescue workers were on standby along the coastlines of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states on Saturday, with Cyclone Hudhud expected to make landfall […]

British citizen nabbed in Bangladesh capital over suspected IS links‏

A British citizen of Bangladesh origin has been arrested in capital Dhaka on suspicion that he is close to the international militant outfit Islamic State (IS). Monirul Islam, deputy commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told journalists that Samiul Rahman aka Ibn Hamdan was nabbed from Dhaka’s central Kamalapur railway station area […]