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DHAKA, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has decided not to impose a state of emergency, cooling speculation that an authoritarian crackdown is imminent to tackle violence of major opposition alliance-enforced countrywide nonstop blockade that entered 30th day on Wednesday. “There is no need for imposing emergency,” Sheikh Hasina told parliament in […]
Read MoreDhaka, Feb 5 (Reuters) – The death toll from a TransAsia Airways plane that crashed into a Taipei river shortly after taking off has risen to 31, Taiwanese officials said on Thursday, and could rise further with 12 people still missing. TransAsia Flight GE235, carrying 58 passengers and crew, lurched between buildings, clipped an overpass […]
Read MoreCOLOMBO, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday pledged to continue strong ties with China. In a message to mark the Chinese New Year, President Sirisena noted the importance of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Sri Lanka last September and affirmed that ties between Sri Lanka and China will continue […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — The White House was cautious on Wednesday in its comments on the Jordanian government’s retaliatory execution of two Iraqi extremists after the Islamic State (IS) released a video purporting to show IS burning alive a Jordanian pilot hostage. “These were individuals who were sentenced to death and were serving time […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered obtaining accurate information on the TransAsia Airways airplane that crashed into a Taipei river on Wednesday as quickly as possible and providing assistance in treating the injured people. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of […]
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DHAKA, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Scores of Bangladeshi opposition leaders and activists including ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia have been sued over Tuesday’s deadly arson attack in eastern Bangladesh during the countrywide non-stop blockade, local police said Wednesday. According to a police official who preferred to be unnamed, two lawsuits were filed in Comilla district, some […]
Read MoreTAIPEI, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — A plane of the Taiwan TransAsia Airways came down into a Taipei river Wednesday, with more than 50 people on board, confirmed the civil aviation authorities of Taiwan. Contact with the ATR-72 Flight, scheduled from Taipei to Kinmen, lost at about 11 a.m. Then the plane was found in the […]
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Jeddah, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — The manpower market of Saudi Arabia is open again for Bangladeshi workers starting Sunday Feb. 1, a statement issued by the Embassy of Bangladesh in Riyadh yesterday said. The news of the opening was conveyed to Md. Shahidul Islam, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by Dr. […]
Read MoreAMMAN, Jordan, Feb 4 (NsNewsWire) — When relatives learned Tuesday night that the Islamic State had released a video showing the death of a Jordanian fighter pilot, First Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh, they tried to keep it from his mother, Issaf, and his wife, Anwar. They switched off the television and tried to wrest a smartphone […]
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