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Death toll in Libya’s Benghazi clashes rises to 356

BENGHAZI, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — Another 16 people were killed in violent clashes between Libyan army and Islamic militants in the eastern city of Benghazi on Sunday, adding the total death toll to 356, sources said. “The center has received 16 dead bodies killed in clashes and random shooting on Sunday,” a medical source in […]

Xinjiang’s first high-speed rail starts operation

URUMQI, Nov. 16 (NsNewsWire) — The first high-speed rail in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region became operational on Sunday, slashing travel time between the regional capital of Urumqi and the eastern city of Hami by half to three hours. The 530-km rail, with a designed speed of over 200 km per hour, is part […]

Clinical trials of Ebola drug to start in West Africa

CONAKRY, Nov. 15 (NsNewsWire) — Doctors Without Borders (MSF), a medical aid group, has announced that clinical trials of the Ebola virus drugs will be launched in three of its Ebola treatment centers in West Africa starting December. In a statement released on Thursday, MSF said the distinct studies will be conducted by different research […]

31 Africans arrested in Bangladesh capital for illegal overstay

DHAKA, Nov. 14 (NsNewsWire) — 31 people of 10 African nations have been arrested by Bangladesh Police for overstaying their visas and violating immigration laws. The foreign nationals were arrested on early Friday from different parts of capital Dhaka, Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Krisna Pado Roy told journalists Friday. He said the […]

Google Driving A Bus Across Bangladesh To Help 500,000 Students Learn About The Internet

DHAKA, Nov. 14 (NsNewsWire) — Google has launched ‘Google Bus Bangladesh’, an educational program aimed at teaching key digital skills to more than half a million students in the South Asian country. There are some outlandish programs to help connect the world’s population — including Google’s balloons, SpaceX’s forthcoming satellites, and Facebook’s drones – but […]

Indian National Investigation Agency Team to Visit Dhaka on Nov. 17

New Delhi, Nov. 14 (NsNewsWire) — A team of Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) will be visiting Bangladesh on Nov. 17 to brief the authorities in Dhaka and also seek cooperation of that country to unravel all plans of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror outfit. After getting necessary sanction, a team of NIA, headed by an […]

Bangladesh Opposition Leader Sentenced to Death for War Crimes

DHAKA, Nov. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s war crimes tribunal Thursday awarded death to a local-level opposition party leader for war crimes including mass killings in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 pronounced the verdict Thursday morning on a crime against humanity case, awarding death sentence to ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader […]

Xi’s South Pacific trip to promote regional cooperation

BEIJING, Nov. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Days after hosting his colleagues for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings, Chinese President Xi Jinping will fly across the equator Friday for a back-to-back gathering of world leaders. In Australia’s Brisbane, where the 9th Group of 20 (G20) Summit is to be held on Nov. 15-16, Xi will continue brainstorming […]

Japan supports agricultural mechanization in rural Bangladesh

DHAKA, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Japan has lent its support to farmers in a rural Bangladesh district for agricultural mechanization. The inaugural ceremony of the installation of agricultural machinery under a project for the poor and landless farmers of Uzirpur sub-district in Bangladesh’s Barisal district was held on Nov. 12, said a statement of Japanese […]