Source:Global Times Published: 2018/4/18 17:53:40 US President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that “Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong Un in North Korea last week. Meeting went very smoothly and a good relationship was formed.” One day before, he said that the US had had “direct talks at very high levels” with North Korea and there […]

DHAKA, April 18 (NsNewsWire) — Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed the students and faculty at Illinois State University (ISU) the first public university established in the state over150 years back. ISU hosted the lecture on Saturday evening. This was attended by 500 students, faculty, staff and community members. Extra seating capacity had to be […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/4/17 20:03:39 The US Commerce Department on Monday banned American companies from selling components to China’s telecommunications-gear maker ZTE Corp. With plenty of gadgets, especially chips, purchased from the US, ZTE will suffer heavy losses. The company has already halted trading of its shares in both Hong Kong and Shenzhen, and shares […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/4/16 23:38:39 China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi started his visit to Japan Sunday, the first Chinese foreign minister to visit the country since 2009. Wang will attend the China-Japan High-level Economic Dialogue in Tokyo and brief Japan on the results of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un‘s visit to China. […]

Indiana, April 16 (NsNewsWire) — Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus delivered spring semester keynote speech at the Notre Dame Forum of the prestigious US University of Notre Dame in Indiana, United States on April 12, 2018. Speaking to an audience of about 650 in the Dahnke Ballroom of the Duncan Student Center at the university, […]

CANBERRA, April 16 (NsNewsWire) — Australia is set to take a leading role in attempts to strengthen the Commonwealth of Nations to boost global trade and security, reports Xinhua. Julie Bishop, Australia’s foreign minister, on Monday confirmed she is working with her British counterpart on expanding Commonwealth membership beyond English-speaking nations. “The British are keen […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/4/15 22:23:40 After US, British and French forces launched over 100 missiles at Syria, Washington quickly stated that it was satisfied with the effectiveness of the strike. US President Donald Trump tweeted “Mission Accomplished!” Will there be more military actions on Syria? The US said that will depend on whether Bashar al-Assad’s […]

DHAKA, April 15 (NsNewsWire) — Abdullah Al Mahmud, the soon-to-be captain of a modern oceangoing vessel, noticed that Bangladesh was lagging behind other countries in building eye-catching boats, reports Xinhua. He noted that the riverine country has a long tradition of building beautiful boats since ancient times and that craftsmen for thousands of years have […]

US, allies risk Russian retaliation in Syrian attack Source:Global Times Published: 2018/4/14 12:59:53 US President Donald Trump announced on Friday he ordered strikes on the Syrian regime in response to a chemical attack last weekend. He said the strikes were in coordination with France and the United Kingdom. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his country […]