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Donald Trump says fake news media is enemy of the American people
18Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Donald Trump says fake news media is enemy of the American people

    Donald Trump has branded his critics in the US press not my enemy but the enemy of the American people, in a tweet that came a day after he launched a sustained attack on the media during a White House press conference. In his latest barb aimed at US journalists, the Republican billionaire took to Twitter to accuse reporters of publishing fake news and singled out several broadcasters for criticism. Mr Trump wrote: The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People! Mr Trump has frequently attacked the media but has never before called it an enemy of the American public. It comes a day after an astonishing news conference in which the US President criticised the press and commented on the nature of rep...
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EU lauds Dhaka’s role in maintaining global peace, security
18Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

EU lauds Dhaka’s role in maintaining global peace, security

    The European Union (EU) has highly appreciated Bangladesh’s role in maintaining global peace and security as one of the highest troops and police contributing countries for the UN peacekeeping operations. Both sides agreed to intensify collaboration on matters of regional and global interests such as connectivity, migration, terrorism. These issues came up for discussion at the second diplomatic consultations between Bangladesh and the EU held in Brussels recently. Managing Director for Asia and the Pacific at the European External Action Service (EEAS) Gunnar Wiegand led the EU delegation, while the Bangladeshi delegation was led by Foreign Secretary Md. Shahidul Haque, said a foreign ministry press release on Saturday. Both sides recognised that adoption of the 2030 Agen...
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Young man killed in mass fight in Brent Cross
18Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Young man killed in mass fight in Brent Cross

    A murder investigation has been launched after a young man was killed during a mass fight on a suburban street in north London. Police rushed to Heathfield Gardens, where houses cost around £1 million, at around 7.15pm on Friday following reports of a number of males fighting. They found a man in his early 20s with a serious gash on his neck. He was taken to hospital in an ambulance but later died. Police said they do not know exactly what caused the wound at this stage. Enquiries are underway to trace and inform the victim’s family, while formal identification and a post-mortem examination will take place in due course. Two men were arrested on suspicion of affray and remain in custody at a north London police station. Detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command ...
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Samsung heir arrested in corruption probe
17Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Samsung heir arrested in corruption probe

    Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, arrives to be questioned as a suspect in a corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye, at the office of the independent counsel in Seoul on 13 February, 2017. Prosecutors on Friday arrested the de facto head of South Korea’s largest conglomerate, Samsung, on bribery and other charges related to a political corruption scandal that triggered the impeachment of President Park Geun-Hye. In a fresh blow to the electronics giant’s corporate image, a district court cited new evidence in approving the arrest warrant against vice-chairman Lee Jae-Yong, who oversees the family-run electronics giant in the absence of his ailing father. Among other allegations, Lee is accused of paying nea...
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Theresa May attempts to woo French government in Brexit article
17Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Theresa May attempts to woo French government in Brexit article

    Theresa May is attempting to woo the French government with a pledge that Britain will not seek to cherry-pick parts of EU membership after Brexit. The Prime Minister is hosting French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve for talks at Downing Street and will promise to respect the EU's desire to keep freedom of movement. Her pledge came after the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in December regarding the UK's Brexit negotiations: We will not allow any cherry picking. The four basic freedoms must be safeguarded - freedom of movement for people, goods, services and financial market products. Only then can there be access to the single market. Then, on the day of the Prime Minister's Lancaster House speech on Brexit on 17 January, the European Parliament's chief Brexit negoti...
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Kim Jong Un is a top suspect in his half brother’s death
17Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Kim Jong Un is a top suspect in his half brother’s death

    This year, as usual, wreaths were laid Thursday at statues of Kim Jong Il and his father, North Korea’s Eternal President, Kim Il Sung. There were parades and figure skating and synchronized swimming and displays of the flowers known to the rest of us as begonias but to North Koreans as Kimjongilia. The North’s third-generation leader, Kim Jong Un, cut a solemn figure as he bowed at his father’s tomb and presided over a meeting of Communist Party apparatchiks. But was that look of gravity a mark of respect for his deceased father? A sign of shock at the sudden death this week of his estranged older half brother? Or the steely face of a man who will stop at nothing to hold on to power? For South Korea’s often-unreliable intelligence service and some analysts in China, Kim J...
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Tony Blair calls on remainers to rise up in defence of our beliefs
17Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Tony Blair calls on remainers to rise up in defence of our beliefs

    Tony Blair will declare his mission to persuade the UK to stay in the EU today, calling for remain supporters to rise up in defence of what we believe. The former prime minister will make the statement at his first big speech since the EU referendum, arguing that people were misinformed when they voted for Brexit. The people voted without knowledge of the true terms of Brexit. As these terms become clear, it is their right to change their mind, he is expected to say. Our mission is to persuade them to do so. His intervention is likely to be highly controversial at a time when Theresa May has criticised those seeking to deny the will of the people as reflected by the EU referendum vote on 23 June 2016, and when Labour’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has pledged not to block the tr...
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Driving licences of thousands of illegal immigrants revoked
17Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Driving licences of thousands of illegal immigrants revoked

    A crackdown on illegal immigrants in the UK has seen almost 27,000 drivers have their licences revoked since 2014. The figures also found a 22% rise in voided licences in 2016, compared to the year before. Some people caught had entered the UK illegally, but most obtained a licence while on a legitimate visa and had then illegally overstayed. However, critics say the "small" number of licences that actually go on to be surrendered undermines the system. The Home Office gave the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) the powers to revoke licences in July 2014. That month more than 3,500 licences were revoked. In 2015 it was 9,700 and in 2016 that number rose to 11,900, the figures released under the Freedom of Information Act to BBC South East show. The driving licence ...
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News Brief from Bangladesh High Commission London
16Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

News Brief from Bangladesh High Commission London

President Md. Abdul Hamid yesterday urged the UK residents and non-resident Bangladeshis (NRB) to invest more in the country in different sectors, including trade and commerce. He made the call while a-five-member delegation of Labour Friends of Bangladesh called on him at Bangabhaban yesterday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday approved the architectural design and model of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre which will be constructed in Rajshahi. The approval was given at the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that the government should take initiative to declare March 25 as genocide day as marauding Pakistani army on that day in 1971 carried out one of the worst genocides in the modern history against unarmed people of Banglade...
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Facebook announces new video app for TV
16Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

Facebook announces new video app for TV

    In a bid to give users more options as to how and where they can watch videos, social media giant Facebook on Thursday announced a new app for TV. The app will be rolled out soon to app stores for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Samsung Smart TV, with more platforms to come, said Facebook in a blog post. With the app, you can watch videos shared by friends or Pages you follow, top live videos from around the world, and recommended videos based on your interests. ‘Users can also catch up on videos saved to watch later, as well as revisit watched videos. We look forward to seeing how people use the app to enjoy Facebook videos in a new way,’ said Facebook. The company also announced new updates wherein sound fades in and out as you scroll through videos in News Feed, bringing t...
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