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RAMALLAH/GAZA, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) — The Israeli parliament’s vote to legalize settlement posts in the West Bank outraged the Palestinians on Tuesday, who warned that the vote would bring a global wrath against Israel. On Monday night, the Israeli parliament voted in favor of legalizing 4,000 Jewish settlements that will be built on Palestinian-owned lands […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Febr. 7 (NsNewsWire) –Foreign Secretary Md. Shahidul Haque led the six-member Bangladesh delegation to the Seventeenth Session of the BIMSTEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) held on Tuesday in Kathmandu, Nepal after about three years. As the current Chair of BIMSTEC, Shankar Das Bairagi, Foreign Secretary of Nepal chaired this Foreign Secretary Level Meeting. Bangladesh, […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 6 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group, on this Safer Internet Day 2017, releases results from a survey of parents and adults across Asia in order to give greater visibility of the types of digital bullying affecting youth and how they deal with it. The survey was conducted over Facebook with 320 respondents primarily from […]
Read MoreOSIJEK, Feb. 6(NsNewsWire)– With their backs against the wall, Roberto Bautista Agut and Pablo Carreno Busta held their nerves to complete a big turnaround on the final day of the Davis Cup tie against Croatia in Osijek, leading Spain to the World Group quarterfinals for the first time in five years. Bautista Agut had the […]
Read MoreJINAN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua)– China’s Yancoal Australia will take over Rio Tinto’s coal assets in Australia in a deal worth 2.35 billion U.S. dollars. Under the deal, Coal & Allied Industries Ltd., which operates two mines in Australia, will be sold to Yancoal Australia, which is majority controlled by Yanzhou Coal Mining, one of China’s […]
Read MoreSEOUL, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) — The examination of a South Korean government body found battery defects in the fiery Galaxy Note 7 smartphones of Samsung Electronics that had been discontinued for overheating and explosion, a government report showed on Monday. It was highly likely that the manufacturing error in batteries used for Note 7s was […]
Read MorePARIS, Feb. 6 (NsNewsWire) — After a primary victory, the clock has been ticking for French left presidential nominee Benoit Hamon to unite ranks and rally majority ahead of the upcoming presidential election. On Sunday, Hamon said “My first task is to gather the Socialists and the broader left” to make “dreams possible.” “It does […]
Read MoreNEW YORK, Feb. 6 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. stocks closed mixed for the first week of February, with the Nasdaq setting new closing records, as investors mainly digested a batch of economic data and corporate earnings. For the week, the blue-chip Dow edged down 0.1 percent, while both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq rose 0.1 […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Feb. 6 (NsNewsWire) — The Chinese government has issued a five-year action plan for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. The government will make the utmost effort to find out HIV-infected and AIDS patients, reduce infections through drug needles, blood transfusion and mother-to-child transmission, minimize the fatality rate and improve patients’ quality of life, according to […]
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