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Bangladesh Foreign Minister appointed chair of Commonwealth Ministerial Group on Guyana
Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has been appointed as the Chair of Commonwealth Ministerial Group on Guyana, which works for the settlement of the Guyana-Venezuela territorial dispute.
13 October 2020, 08:52 AM
Anti-microbe drug shows promise
An affordable anti-microbial drug used to treat stomach ulcers and bacterial infections has shown promise in combatting the coronavirus in animals, scientists in Hong Kong announced yesterday.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM
India, China hold fresh talks on ending faceoff
Senior Indian and Chinese military commanders were holding fresh talks yesterday aimed at ending a monthslong standoff along their disputed border in the remote Ladakh region.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Arctic Ocean is dying’
Researchers on the world’s biggest mission to the North Pole returned to Germany yesterday, bringing home devastating proof of a dying Arctic Ocean and warnings of ice-free summers in just decades.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM
EU agrees to sanctions on Russians: diplomats
The EU yesterday lined up sanctions against Russian officials over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and against Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko over the crisis in his country.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Sharp rise in natural disasters in last 20 yrs: UN
There has been a dramatic increase in extreme weather events in the past 20 years, which are taking a heavy human and economic toll worldwide and are on track to expand further, and Asia has been hardest-hit, the United Nations said yesterday.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Trump’s Supreme Court pick faces Senate hearings
The US Senate was set to start confirmation hearings yesterday for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, nominated to the Supreme Court by President Donald Trump despite opposition from the Democrats, who appear largely powerless to block the move before the November 3 election.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Truce strained by new attacks
Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces yesterday accused each other of launching new attacks in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, increasing strains on a two-day old humanitarian ceasefire intended to end heavy fighting over the mountain enclave.
12 October 2020, 18:00 PM
EU to sanction Belarusian president over ‘rigged’ elections
European Union foreign ministers have agreed to sanction Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and other senior officials over an August 9 election the West says was rigged, citing worsening police violence against protesters.
12 October 2020, 16:44 PM
Facebook to ban content that denies or distorts the Holocaust
Facebook Inc has said it is updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.
12 October 2020, 16:35 PM
US economists Milgrom, Wilson win 2020 Nobel economics prize for work on auction theory
US economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the 2020 Nobel Economics Prize for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says.
12 October 2020, 09:58 AM
Peru president to face graft probe when term ends
Peruvian state prosecutors have said they intend to open a corruption investigation into President Martin Vizcarra when his term ends in July next year.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Mexico asks Pope for apology for church’s role in Spanish conquest
Mexico’s president has written to Pope Francis to ask for an apology for the Catholic church’s role in the oppression of indigenous people in the
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM
20 killed on temple trip in Thailand as bus, train collide
A bus heading to a Buddhist temple collided with a train in central Thailand yesterday, killing at least 20 people dead and injuring 30, authorities said.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Ting Mong’ the saviour
Armed with a stick, a floral-shirted scarecrow with a plastic pot for a head stands guard in front of a rural Cambodian home -- a sentry erected by superstitious farmers to ward off the coronavirus.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Kim sends signal with new huge ICBM
The gargantuan new missile North Korea put on show at a military parade is an explicit threat to US defences and an implicit challenge to both the current and next American president, analysts say, warning Pyongyang could test the weapon next year.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM
‘We cannot continue to squeeze it like an orange’
With a call to save the planet, Prince William and Pope Francis on Saturday joined activists, artists, celebrities and politicians in a free streamed TED event aimed at mobilizing and unifying people to confront the climate crisis.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Only ‘chicanery’ at polls can defeat us
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden said on Saturday “the only way” he could lose to President Donald Trump was through “chicanery,” before clarifying that he will accept the election result.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Turmoil in MidEast: China calls for new forum to defuse crises
China’s foreign minister Wang Yi has called for a new forum to defuse tensions in the Middle East after a meeting with his Iranian counterpart where he reiterated Beijing’s support for Tehran.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Karabakh truce hope tatters
Hopes that a Russian-brokered ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan might hold were further dashed yesterday, with both sides accusing the other of intense shelling on civilian areas and escalating two weeks of fierce clashes.
11 October 2020, 18:00 PM