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ISTANBUL, May 19 (NsNewsWire) — The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Friday vowed to take “all necessary steps” to prevent other countries from following the U.S. example of moving their Israel embassies to Jerusalem. The move came after the group held an extraordinary summit in Istanbul upon the call of Turkish President Recep […]
Read MoreLISBON, May 19 (Xinhua) — Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has said that Portugal firmly supports the Belt and Road Initiative proposed by China since its commencement. Rebelo de Sousa made the remarks while meeting visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Presidential Palace in Lisbon on Friday. While conveying […]
Read MoreCHICAGO, May 20 (NsNewsWire) — Travelers to and children in underdeveloped areas of the world with blood type A suffer more severe symptoms once infected with diarrhea than those with blood type O or B, a study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows, reports Xinhua. Enterotoxigenic E. coli […]
Read MoreSource:Global Times Published: 2018/5/18 23:23:41 North Korea lashed out at US and South Korean policies toward the North on Wednesday and Thursday, resulting in Western media speculations that Pyongyang has shifted from the planned meeting with US President Donald Trump. Trump’s comments on that have led to different media interpretations. Some believe that he reacted low […]
Read MoreSource:Global Times Published: 2018/5/17 23:03:43 In a letter sent to the World Health Organization, a group of 172 US lawmakers called for Taiwan’s participation in this year’s World Health Assembly (WHA) to be held on May 21. The lawmakers, deliberately neglecting the fact that the WHA is an event for sovereign countries, said in the […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE, May 18 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh High Commission, Singapore organized a Joint Panel Discussion titled “Bangladesh : The Next Level of Development” in collaboration with Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) of the prestigious National University of Singapore (NUS) on 15 May 2018. The event took place at the Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore. The Joint Panel […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 18 (NsNewsWire) — The second meeting of the Joint Working Group (JWG) on the Repatriation of Displaced Myanmar Residents from Bangladesh was held in Dhaka with Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh Mr. Md. Shahidul Haque and U Myint Thu, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar leading the respective side. The JWG discussed all […]
Read Moreby William M. Reilly UNITED NATIONS, May 18 (Xinhua) — More than 16,000 babies have been born in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh in the nine-months since violence forced them to flee their homes in Myanmar, a UN spokesman said on Thursday. “More than 60 Rohingya babies are born in Bangladesh refugee camps every day,” said Deputy UN spokesman […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 18 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh‘s trade deficit in the first quarter of the current 2017-18 fiscal year (July 2017-June 2018) ballooned by over 87 percent year on year to 13.20 billion U.S. dollars, showed the central bank data on Thursday. Bangladesh import payment was 40.30 billion dollars, up 24.50 percent, in the first nine months of […]
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