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Iranian protesters set Saudi embassy on fire in Tehran

TEHRAN, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Angry Iranian protesters against the execution of a Shiite leader by Saudi Arabia raided and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran late Saturday. The move came hours after the Saudi Interior Ministry announced that prominent Shiite leader Nimr al-Nimr and 46 other men were executed on terror charges. […]

Bangladeshi former PM reiterates demand for army supervision for local body polls

reiterates demand for army supervision for local body polls DHAKA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Monday once again called for the deployment of the army to supervise the local body polls. While addressing a press conference, Khaleda Zia, also chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), alleged that Prime […]

Attack on Bangladesh’s Ahmadiyya mosque leaves 1 dead

DHAKA, Dec. 25 (NsNewsWire) — A bomb attack on worshipers at a mosque of Ahmadiyya Muslim community in a western Bangladeshi district has killed at least one people and wounded three more, reports Xinhua The Friday attack took place at Chokpara mosque of Ahmadiyya community, in Rajshahi district, some 256 km west of the capital […]

DHAKA, Dec. 25 (NsNewsWire) — A bomb attack on worshipers at a mosque of Ahmadiyya Muslim community in a western Bangladeshi district has killed at least one people and wounded three more, reports Xinhua. The Friday attack took place at Chokpara mosque of Ahmadiyya community, in Rajshahi district, some 256 km west of the capital […]

Islamabad cites “harassment” reason for withdrawal of diplomat from Bangladesh

ISLAMABAD, Dec. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Pakistan has withdrawn one of its diplomats from Bangladesh after “harassment,” the foreign ministry said on Thursday, reports Xinhua. “Miss Farina Arshad, second secretary at the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka, was constantly being harassed by the Bangladeshi authorities,” a foreign ministry statement said. “The government of Pakistan twice summoned […]

Junta leader writes new song, leaving Thais to face the music

BANGKOK, Dec. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Thailand’s junta leader released the lyrics to a new patriotic ballad on Tuesday, the second song he has written since seizing power in 2014, reports reuters. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who as army chief led the May 2014 coup, first wrote the song “Return Happiness to Thailand”, which is played […]

Human Rights Groups Ask U.S. to Grant Asylum to Bangladesh Bloggers

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (NsNewsWire) — A coalition of human rights groups called on the United States on Monday to grant temporary visas to secular writers from Bangladesh after a series of bloody attacks by Islamist militants, reports Reuters. Five bloggers and a publisher were killed by Islamists in Bangladesh this year, including an American citizen […]

Bangladesh celebrates 45th V-day

DHAKA, Dec. 17 (NsNewsWire) — With due solemnity and rich tributes paid to the martyrs of the Liberation War of 1971 for their supreme sacrifices for the long-cherished independence of the homeland, Bangaldesh Wednesday celebrated its 45th victory day. The day, a public holiday, commenced with a 31-gun salute followed by rich tributes of President […]

Obama vows to defeat ‘new phase’ of terrorist threat

Washington, Dec. 7 (NsNewsWire) — President Barack Obama on Sunday laid out the most sweeping defense yet of his strategy to defeat Islamic State, but he offered no US policy shift to confront what he called a “new phase” in the terrorist threat after a mass shooting in California, reports Reuters. In a rare Oval […]