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ATHENS, June 2 (Xinhua) — A Greek police operation was underway on Friday to peacefully evacuate about 500 refugees and migrants from the Athens old airport of Hellenikon, Greek national news agency AMNA reported. Over the past two weeks officials of Greece’s Migration Policy ministry had been briefing the remaining residents of the makeshift camp […]
Read MoreDhaka, June 2 (NsNewsWire) –The Unnayan Onneshan (UO), an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, states that the proposed budgetary measures for FY 2017-18 fall short in addressing high prices, sluggish growth in real sector, rising joblessness, dwindling social sector spending, and institutional weaknesses. The budget speech seems to lack providing prudent and farsighted solutions to the current […]
Read MoreROME, June 1 (Xinhua) — Investors were bullish on banks Thursday after Italy and the European Union (EU) reached an initial agreement on the precautionary recapitalization of the troubled Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) bank. This means the Italian Treasury can step in to rescue MPS after its shareholders and junior bondholders take losses, […]
Read MoreRAMALLAH, June 1 (Xinhua) — The decision of United States President Donald Trump not to move the embassy of his country from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem “is positive,” a senior Palestinian official said Thursday. Nabil Abu Rdineh, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in an official press statement that the decision “is positive […]
Read MoreCHICAGO, June 1 (Xinhua) — At least one person was killed and two other workers went missing during a corn milling plant explosion late Wednesday in the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. Midwest, local media ABC news reported. More than 10 employees were injured in the incident at the Didion Milling plant in Cambria, […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE, June 1 (Xinhua) — Singapore has appointed former transport minister Lui Tuck Yew as Singapores ambassador to Japan, said Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in a press statement on Thursday. Lui served as the Minister for Transport from 2011 to 2015 and concurrently Second Minister for Defence in 2015. He left politics in 2015 […]
Read MoreISTANBUL, June 1 (Xinhua) — As Turkey and the European Union (EU) prepare to revive long-stalled ties following a stormy period, analysts are not optimistic about the move yielding any significant progress in Ankara’s accession talks and seeing it as a means to keep up appearances for mutual interests. “Both sides have opted to continue […]
Read MoreST. PETERSBURG, Russia, June 1 (Xinhua) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Western hatred and fear of Russia is counterproductive and he hopes it will end soon. Russophobia is generated as the world is moving toward multipolarization and global hegemons do not like it, Putin said at a meeting with the heads […]
Read MoreRIYADH, May 31 (Xinhua) — Saudi security authority launched an investigation into the murder of a local and an American inside a famous private school in Riyadh on Wednesday morning, Okaz online news reported. The report confirmed that the killer who fled the scene is an Iraqi teacher who was sacked and he entered the […]
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