Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
DHAKA, June 11 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh has arrested a factory owner for suspected link to a militant group, an official said Sunday. Imran Ahmed, 37, managing director of Jim Tex, has been arrested along with his driver by anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion for their alleged involvement with the “Neo JMB”, Mufti Mahmud Khan, […]
Read MorePARIS, June 11 (Xinhua) — French voters went to the polls on Sunday to pick the lower house’s 577 members in the first round of parliamentary elections. The election came a month after centrist Emmanuel Macro, 39, won the presidency of the eurozone’s second largest economy. Opinion polls forecast the Republic On The Move (LREM), […]
Read MoreANKARA, June 11 (Xinhua) — Turkey has criticized a plan by Iraq‘s autonomous Kurdish region to hold a independence referendum, calling this alarming move of its ally neighbours as a “grave mistake” susceptible of creating new problems for the region. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Iraq’s territorial integrity was a “precondition” for […]
Read MoreROME, June 11 (Xinhua) — A two-day environmental summit of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations plus the European Union and four invited countries kicked off in the Italian city of Bologna on Sunday. The agenda set by host and G7 president Italy includes the fight against global warming and climate change, in spite […]
Read MoreDAMASCUS, June 11 (Xinhua) — The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) captured on Sunday their third neighborhood in the Islamic State (IS) group’s de facto capital of Raqqa, less than a week since they started operation to liberate the city from IS, activists reported. The SDF captured the Romaniyeh neighborhood in northwestern Raqqa, the latest […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD, June 11 (Xinhua) — At least two policemen were killed and two others injured in a firing by unknown gunmen in Pakistan’s southwest Quetta city on Sunday, local Urdu media reported. Some unknown gunmen opened fire at a police check post in Sariab area of Quetta, the capital city of the country’s southwest Balochistan […]
Read MoreBEIJING, June 10 (Xinhua) — Social media giant Weibo rolled out an online video editing program Friday. Jian.weibo.com is a partnership with video platform miaopai.com and video subtitle and translation service provider easub.com. It features video editing tools and release channels. It is currently only available to media organizations and video production companies, according to […]
Read MoreRIO DE JANEIRO, June 10 (NsNewsWire) — Police were forced to fire rubber bullets to disperse angry fans as protests turned violent at the headquarters of Rio de Janeiro giants Flamengo on Friday. Around 200 supporters gathered at the club’s Ninho do Urubu training complex to rail against the team’s poor run of results, reports […]
Read MorePARIS, June 10 (NsNewsWire) — Rafael Nadal rode on his unstoppable run in his quest for the 10th success at Roland Garros as he beat Austrian promising star Dominic Thiem in straight sets in the semifinals, while Stan Wawrinka labored for the other final spot after edging top seed Andy Murray through a five-set thriller […]
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