Colombia’s government and the country’s biggest rebel group reached a historic deal Wednesday evening for ending a half-century of hostilities in one of the world’s longest-running and bloodiest armed conflicts.President Juan Manuel Santos hailed the agreement with the Revolutionary Armed…
Germany must find alternatives to the Incirlik Air Base and pull its soldiers and weapons from Turkey, German MP Rainer Arnold told Der Spiegel magazine. Ankara has been blocking official visits from Berlin to the base. The Bundeswehr was considering…
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that he would allow exceptions to let some undocumented immigrants to stay in the US, vowing he wouldn’t grant them citizenship but telling Fox News, “there’s no amnesty, but we work with them.” For…
by Dan Primack There has been a lot of talk this month about The Clinton Foundation, but did you know that the organization has a private equity fund? Or at least that it did? Or that it still does? Again,…
Clinton is crushing Trump in campaign donations from employees working for defense giants like Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. By Austin Wright and Jeremy Herb The nation’s top defense contractors have long been a bastion of support for Republican candidates…
Bangkok – The Committee to Protect Journalists called Thursday on Bangladesh’s legislature to scrap proposed cyber-security legislation that would impose severe penalties for disseminating online material deemed to be anti-state or a threat to national security or public order, says…
France will deploy around 3,000 reserve troops to provide security to schools, education and security ministers have announced. Anti-terror drills aimed at preparing students for potential attacks will also be ramped up. Around 12 million French students are preparing to…
Italy (AP/UNB) — Rescue crews using bulldozers and their bare hands raced to dig out survivors from a strong earthquake that reduced three central Italian towns to rubble Wednesday. The death toll stood at 247, but the number of dead…
Robert J. Burrowes I sometimes wonder whether one of the ways in which ‘Amercian exceptionalism’ manifests is that many US scholars and others are unable to consider the contributions of those who are not from the USA. For example, I…
Amatrice (AP/UNB) — A strong earthquake rocked central Italy early Wednesday, collapsing homes on top of residents as they slept. At least 73 people were reported dead in two hard-hit towns where rescue crews raced to dig out survivors from…
United Nations, (AP/UNB) — North Korea on Tuesday warned that joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States are pushing the situation on the Korean Peninsula “to the brink of a war” and asked for an urgent meeting…
Dhaka – US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on a brief one-day visit on August 29 to discuss bilateral issues with his Bangladesh counterpart, UNB news agency has reported. However, there is no official…
Dhaka – North Korean auhorities hint that they are determined to continue with their missile and nuclear programmes and are not ready to relent come what may thus keeping the heat in the Korean Peninsula at boiling levels. The decision…
For the first time since the Cold War the German government is advising citizens to stockpile food and water for use in a national emergency. Some opposition MPs said the new civil defence concept, to go before ministers on Wednesday,…
Chilling footage has emerged purporting to show Kurdish security forces defusing an explosive belt attached to a teenage suicide bomber in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The tense moment, captured on camera, showed Kurdish law enforcers arresting a young suicide…
Beirut (AP/UNB) — Opposition activists say the brother of a wounded Syrian boy who gained international attention has died. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday that Ali Daqneesh, 10, died the day before from wounds sustained in…
Ann Ravel, one of six members of the Federal Election Commission, called last week for the FEC to take a stand against foreign money in U.S. elections — and on Thursday, she appealed for public reaction.At issue are advisory opinions…
The United States is in discussion with Bangladesh about assistance package in countering terrorism and violent extremism taking Bangladesh’s need into consideration.“We’ve been refining our package and figuring out what we’re going to provide. First of all what your government…
An Islamic State group suicide bomber as young as 12 years old attacked an outdoor Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people and wounding dozens of others, the Turkish president said Sunday.The bombing late Saturday in…
An explosion at an outdoor wedding party in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep has killed at least 30 people and injured 94 more, the region’s governor says. The Turkish government has called it a “terror attack” and suggested it…
Ankara wouldn’t mind it if Russia used the Incirlik airbase for its anti-terror missions against Islamic State terrorists in Syria, Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim hinted on Saturday, but acknowledged that no such requests have been made., RT reported today.…
Dhaka: The United States wants to work together with Bangladesh through enhanced international cooperation, information-sharing, and coordinated action to ensure that illegal fishing is eliminated. “I look forward to continued close cooperation between Bangladesh and the United States to ensure…
By Jeffrey D. Sachs New York – Deadly terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Dhaka, and Baghdad demonstrate the murderous reach of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. The longer ISIS maintains its…
Beirut – The joint Syrian-Russian military operation has been using incendiary weapons, which burn their victims and start fires, in civilian areas of Syria in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said today. Incendiary weapons have been used at…
United Nations (AP/UNB) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a message on World Humanitarian Day that a record 130 million people depend on assistance to survive, a staggering number that would comprise the tenth most populous nation on earth. At…
The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) of India has given its nod for generating electricity from the second unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, an Indo-Russian joint venture ,weeks after the 1000 MWe unit attained criticality. Earlier on December 31,…
Jessore: Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Friday said steps have been taken to launch Khulna-Kolkata train service soon as Jessore is an important place on Bangladesh-India border. “ The district is also very important for boosting…
Paul Manafort, campaign chairman for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has resigned just two months after taking the helm.Mr Trump confirmed Mr Manafort’s departure in a statement.He first took control of Mr Trump’s campaign after former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski…
New York — It’s Donald Trump like you’ve never seen him before. Life-size naked statues of the Republican presidential nominee greeted passers-by in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Cleveland on Thursday. They are the brainchild of an…
The United States Olympic Committee has apologised for what it called the unacceptable behaviour of four US swimmers who falsely said they had been robbed at gunpoint in Rio.