Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
RIYADH, June 11 (Xinhua) — Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and UAE that severed tied with Qatar last week announced on Sunday a decision to reconsider the humanitarian aspects of mixed Qatari families with members who are nationals of the three states, Al Arabiya local news reported. The decision could help many mixed families who were worrying […]
Read MoreBERLIN, June 11 (Xinhua) — Bayern Munich have signed Serge Gnabry from league rivals Werder Bremen, both Bundesliga clubs confirmed in an official statement on Sunday. The 21-year-old attacking midfielder commits his future to the German record champions after putting pen to paper on a three-year deal, which ties him to the “Bavarians” until June […]
Read MorePARIS, June 11 (Xinhua) — Top seeds Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova showed their dominance on the women’s doubles court as they claimed another Grand Slam title after the Australian Open early this year. They eased past Australian duo of Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua 6-2, 6-1 in the 2017 French Open final here on […]
Read MoreBEIJING, June 11 (Xinhua) — China has launched a swarm of 119 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), breaking the previous record of a swarm of 67 drones, according to the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC). The 119 drones performed catapult-assisted take-offs and formations in the sky. According to the CETC, “swarm intelligence” is regarded […]
Read MoreDHAKA, 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 […]
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