Chinese FM due today

DHAKA, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is all set to arrive here on Saturday on a three-day official visit. Wang Yi, who is visiting  Dhaka at the invitation of his Bangladesh counterpart AH Mahmood Ali, is due to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 6.40 p.m. local time on Saturday. […]

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Sony releases “The Interview” online

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26  (NsNewsWire) — Sony Picture Entertainment released the controversial film “The Interview” online Wednesday, in advance of a limited theatrical screening on Christmas Day. The film, a comedy about a plot to assassinate the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) which prompted a cyberattack, was available at Google Play, […]

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Chinese FM arrives in Nepal

KATHMANDU, Dec. 25 (NsNewsWire) — A Chinese delegation led by Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived here on Thursday for a three-day official goodwill visit, the highest level one from the Chinese side after the election of Nepal’s Constituent Assembly in November 2013. According to the schedule provided by the Chinese Embassy in Nepal, Wang will […]

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Captured Jordanian pilot’s family to ISIS: Show mercy

Amman, Jordan, Dec. 25  (NsNewsWire) — For the first time since a United States-led international coalition began airstrikes against the extremist group ISIS, a coalition pilot has been captured. The family of Jordanian Moaz al-Kasasbeh is pleading that the militants release him, reports CNN . Speaking with CNN Arabic, the pilot’s brother Jawad al-Kasasbeh asked […]

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Bangladesh hero Shakib joins Renegades

Melbourne, Dec. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Allrounder signs with red half of Melbourne for back half of BBL season. Melbourne Renegades have signed the world’s No.1-ranked Twenty20 allrounder Shakib Al Hasan from Bangladesh for the second half of the KFC T20 Big Bash League season. A left-hand batsman and left-arm spinner, Shakib is not stranger to […]

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Ex-President George H.W. Bush taken to hospital

HOUSTON, Dec. 24 (NsNewsWire) —  Former President George H.W. Bush was admitted to a Houston hospital Tuesday evening after experiencing a shortness of breath, a family spokesman said. Bush, 90, was taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital as a “precaution,” according to spokesman Jim McGrath. He “will be held for observation, again as a […]

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Bangladesh development threatens fragile Sundarbans mangroves

DHAKA, Dec. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s rapid development on the doorstep of the ecologically fragile Sundarbans mangrove forest means “environmental disasters” like this month’s oil spill in the massive delta are increasingly likely, experts warn.  A cargo ship last week crashed into an oil tanker in thick fog in a river of the Sundarbans, whose […]

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