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Two advanced Chinese corvette class warships for Bangladesh

Beijing, Dec. 13 (NsNewsWire) — China has handed over two most advanced corvette class warships with ability to sail at a maximum speed of 25.5 knots on the high seas besides versatile combat capacity and excellent manoeuvrability to the Bangladesh Navy, reports Xinhua China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) delivered the two vessels to the Bangladesh […]

Verdict on Bangladesh party chief’s death sentence on Jan. 6 x

AKA, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s supreme court will deliver its verdict on Jan. 6 the final review petition filed by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami President Motiur Rahman Nizami. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha Tuesday set the date after hearing arguments from both […]

Bangladesh’s poor benefiting from domestically produced medication

DHAKA, Dec. 9 (NsNewsWire) — It took less than half a U.S. dollar for Rahman Miah to buy two bottles of syrup for his son who had been coughing for several days.For rickshaw puller Miah, it was not at all burdensome to expend 40 taka from his daily income which is around six U.S. dollars,reports […]

Feature: Bangladesh in climate-induced migration mess

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Dec. 6 (NsNewsWire) — Armed with shovels and baskets, they stand around on the sidewalk every morning waiting to be hired, reports Xinhua. The dozen or so a group of such day-laborers are a common daily sight on the sidewalks of many Dhaka streets. Most of them are worn-out looking men and […]

Knife attacks at London tube station

London, Dec. 6 (NsNewsWire) — A stabbing at a Tube station in east London is being treated as a “terrorist incident”, the Met Police has said. Police were called to reports of people being attacked at Leytonstone station just after 19:00 GMT. The knifeman reportedly shouted “this is for Syria”. A man was arrested after […]

New York Times, in rare front-page editorial, calls for outlawing some rifles

By Alex Dobuzinskis (Reuters) – The New York Times, in its first front-page editorial in nearly a century, on Saturday called for outlawing the kinds of rifles used in the California shooting massacre this week that left 14 people dead. The newspaper’s editorial comes three days after Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married […]

US victim laments attacks on free speech in Bangladesh

WASHINGTON (AP) — An American-Bangladeshi writer who survived a machete attack by Muslim extremists that killed her husband raised alarm Tuesday about rising intimidation and violence against freedom of expression in the troubled South Asian country. Rafida Bonya Ahmed starkly described a sequence of gruesome assaults on secular bloggers, writers and publishers that has left […]

Hollande’s approval ratings climb sharply after Paris attacks: poll

PARIS, Dec. 2 (NsNewsWire) — A poll published Tuesday showed French President Francois Hollande since the Paris terror attacks gained an approval ratings boost at 35 percent, his best rating since October 2012. The TNS Sofres-One Point survey in Le Figaro magazine showed Hollande’s handling of the Nov. 13 attacks boosted his popularity by 20 […]

Russia unveils sanctions list against Turkey

MOSCOW, Dec. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Russia’s government on Tuesday approved a resolution listing detailed sanctions against Turkey in response to last week’s downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian-Turkish border, reports Xinhua. The resolution, signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, bans from Jan. 1 imports of foodstuffs, including poultry meat, a variety of fresh, […]