The Philippine president, who recently sparked outrage for calling God stupid, has courted new controversy in his largely Roman Catholic country by saying he will resign if anybody can prove that God exists.
Category: Int’l relations
Heartbreaking scenes follow Thai boat sinking; 38 dead
Divers who entered the wreck of a tour boat that sank in a storm off the southern Thai resort island of Phuket described heartbreaking scenes of bodies of children found in the arms of their mothers, as the search continued…
Khaleda’s counsel Lord Carlile unlikely to get entry into India
BNP Chairperson’s legal consultant Lord Alex Carlile is unlikely to get entry into India as the country ‘does not want to see any harm’ in its ongoing friendly relations with Bangladesh.
Verification to help find solutions for Rohingyas: UN
The United Nations has said the verification process of Rohingyas in Bangladesh will help to find solutions for the roughly 900,000 Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh.
Regional trade agreements: What agenda for social democracy
Social democracy has been – traditionally – in favour of internationalization. In overcoming nationalism, that internationalism symbolized both the openness of social democracy to people and to (economic) progress. Yet, the faith in internationalization and liberalization may have hit its…
PM assures EU envoy of free, fair election
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today assured new ambassador of European Union (EU) of a free, fair and credible general election to be held at the end of this year.
Bangladesh soil ‘off-limit to terrorists’: Delhi told
Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali has reiterated Bangladesh’s zero-tolerance for terrorism and its resolve not to allow any terrorist group to use its soil to launch any attack against India.
Years of untold suffering at Ethiopia’s Jail Ogaden
Ethiopia’s Regional Special Police Tortured, Beat Detainees Audrey Wabwire, Felix Horne In the Somali region of Ethiopia, it seems like everyone knows someone who was locked up in the dreaded Jail Ogaden, but no one wants to speak about the…
Rohingya rape survivors’ babies arrive: Tale of woes
By Kristen Gelineau Ukhiya, Bangladesh (AP) — Tucked away in the shadows of her family’s bamboo shelter, the girl hid from the world. She was 13, and she was petrified. Two months earlier, soldiers had broken into her home back…
Towards the disappearance of politics
The Crisis Of Political Debate Within Contemporary Democracies Exactly sixty years ago, in 1958, Hannah Arendt published The Human Condition. In her philosophical masterpiece, Arendt indicated that the “Vita Activa”, a life actively encompassing public political debate and political action,…
PM Hasina asures EU envoy of free, fair election
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today assured new ambassador of European Union (EU) of a free, fair and credible general election to be held at the end of this year.
Refer Myanmar to ICC for crimes against Rohingya: UNHCR
Dhaka, July 4 – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday urged the UN Security Council to immediately refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court (ICC) so that all allegations of crimes against humanity and…
Clean water access to all, a must to defeat superbugs
A medical microbiologist working in developing countries says that a major obstacle in tackling antimicrobial resistance is a lack of access to clean water.
Could The US Become A Democratic Dictatorship?
China calls itself a democratic dictatorship, so it looks like the title’s question is a very odd one to ask. You can find various indices that measure countries on a line with dictatorship at one end and democracy at the…
Ex-PM Najib of Malaysia charged with breach of trust, graft
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was charged Wednesday with criminal breach of trust and corruption, two months after a multibillion-dollar graft scandal at a state investment fund led to his shock election defeat.
German embassy concerned at attacks on peaceful protests
The German Embassy Dhaka on Wednesday said it has “with great concern” followed the brutal attacks on peaceful protesters during the last few days.
The Rohingya villages UN investigators can’t visit
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled last year’s brutal military crackdown in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar. Hundreds of villages were burnt to the ground, and there were widespread rape and murder.
US Embassy becomes mouthpiece for BNP: Joy
Dhaka – Prime Minister’s ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Monday said it seems that the US Embassy in Dhaka has become a ‘mouthpiece’ for the BNP.
Want to see a dramatically different BD: Bernicat
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat on Tuesday said she expects to see a dramatically different country — more advanced and developed one — when she will come to visit Bangladesh after her tenure here.
The overlapping crises of democracy and globlisation
The crisis of contemporary democracy has become a major subject of political commentary. But the symptoms of this crisis, the vote for Brexit and Trump, among other things, were not foreseen. Nor were the underlying causes of this new constellation…
ICRC for responsible leadership to resolve Rohingya crisis
Dhaka, July 3 – Recognising the progress made so far, ICRC President Peter Maurer on Tuesday laid emphasis on “responsible leadership” to resolve the Rohingya crisis and help Rohingyas go back to their homeland with all their rights.
Israel: Apparent War Crimes in Gaza
Israeli forces’ repeated use of lethal force in the Gaza Strip since March 30, 2018, against Palestinian demonstrators who posed no imminent threat to life may amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. Israeli forces have killed more…
Don’t blame victims for EU’s migration crisis
In the pre-9/11 period, there was a Development Aid System (DAS) of transferring capital from rich to poor countries to encourage economic and social transformation. It was designed to take capital to labour. Its effect was to retain labour in…
Overcrowded bus plunges into gorge in India, killing 30
Officials say at least 30 people have been killed when an overcrowded bus plunged off a mountain road into a gorge in northern India.
UN to put more pressure on Myanmar: Guterres
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Sunday said they will put more pressure on Myanmar to make them understand what they should do over the Rohingya issue.
Russia joins Nuclear Quality Standard Association NQSA
Dhaka, June 30 – Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, represented by Atomenergoprom, joined the Nuclear Quality Standard Association(NQSA). An agreement to this effect was signed at the World Nuclear Exhibition, held in Paris at the end of last month.
Fear turns into joy: Rescue boat saves 60 in Mediterranean
Aboard The Open Arms In The Mediterranean Sea, Jul 1 (AP/UNB) — The full moon was the only light as a terrified 9-year-old boy from the Central African Republic climbed into a rubber dinghy held them together with duct tape,…
Melania Trump seeing lots, saying little at migrant centers
Washington, Jul 1 (AP/UNB) — Melania Trump lit up when a 3-year-old boy darted out of “Family Unit 8” at a migrant centre in Tucson, Arizona.
ICRC President in Dhaka – Rohingya camp visit soon
President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer arrived here on Saturday afternoon to observe ICRC’s work in Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.
Football, xenophobia, racism, discrimination and …
By Pablo Alabarces Buenos Aires, Jun 29, 2018 (IPS) – Football tells us a great deal about identity. Even a budding sports journalist knows that. And it has come to be a meeting point and even an advertising theme. But…