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May insists chief whip was not trying to steal votes as pairing row grows
20Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

May insists chief whip was not trying to steal votes as pairing row grows

    Theresa May has insisted her chief whip was not trying to steal votes in knife-edge Brexit showdowns despite him apparently confessing to breaking Commons convention. Julian Smith has not denied ordering Tory MPs to ignore pairing arrangements designed to help sick or pregnant MPs to miss votes sparking calls for his resignation. Quizzed on the controversy in Belfast, the prime minister was asked why she had not sacked him for effectively trying to steal votes from the opposition. A Tory backbencher has said Mr Smith all-but admitted to her that he issued the order, which led to Brandon Lewis, the party chairman, voting when he was paired not to. But Ms May replied: There was an honest mistake made for which the chief whip and, indeed, Brandon Lewis have both apol...
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News Brief: Bangladesh High Commission London
20Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

News Brief: Bangladesh High Commission London

President Md. Abdul Hamid returns home from London today following his medical check-up. He went to London for his health check-up on July 7. A nationwide campaign began yesterday for planting three million saplings in memory of the Liberation War Martyrs. The campaign was inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to implement by 86, 000 educational institutions. The PM also inaugurated the World Environment Day programmes, Tree Fair and Campaign for Tree Plantation at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka yesterday. Addressing the function, the PM called for increased use of jute bags as an alternative to polythene to curb environmental degradation. The results of this year's HSC and equivalent examinations will be published today. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid ...
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EU states told to step up no deal Brexit preparations
19Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

EU states told to step up no deal Brexit preparations

    On the chances of no deal, the PM's spokeswoman said the progress so far suggests that is not where we will end up EU member states have been told to step up their preparations for a possible no deal Brexit. The European Commission said everyone must now step up preparations for all scenarios and take responsibility for their specific situation ahead of Britain's official exit day of 30 March 2019. In a 16-page document, it warns of the possibility of long queues at borders and ports, disruption to air travel and new restrictions on data transfers if no exit deal is agreed between London and Brussels. Today's text calls on member states and private parties to step up preparations and follows a request by the European Council last month to intensify preparedness at ...
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Israel passes controversial nation-state law
19Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, Featured

Israel passes controversial nation-state law

    The nation-state law, backed by the right-wing government, passed by a vote of 62-55 and two abstentions in the 120-member parliament after months of political argument. Some Arab lawmakers shouted and ripped up papers after the vote. This is a defining moment in the annals of Zionism and the history of the state of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset after the vote. Largely symbolic, the law was enacted just after the 70th anniversary of the birth of the state of Israel. It stipulates that Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people and they have an exclusive right to national self-determination in it. The bill also strips Arabic of its designation as an official language alongside Hebrew, downgrading it to a special status that en...
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Trump creates fresh confusion over Russia stance
19Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Russia

Trump creates fresh confusion over Russia stance

    The US president has again caused confusion over his stance on Russia after appearing to say he believed Moscow was no longer targeting the US. Speaking to reporters during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Donald Trump answered "no" when asked if the US was still being targeted by Russia, a belief that would put him at odds with his intelligence chiefs. But White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said hours later that she had talked with the president and he had instead been saying "no" to taking further questions from reporters. When asked if she was reversing what the president had said, she answered: "I'm interpreting it, not reversing it." It comes a day after Mr Trump backtracked on comments he madeabout whether he believed Russia had been responsible for al...
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News Brief: Bangladesh High Commission London
19Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

News Brief: Bangladesh High Commission London

President Md. Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in separate messages on the eve of the National Tree Plantation Campaign and Tree Fair-2018, have called upon all to make effective contribution to saving the green for preserving environment and biodiversity. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the electronic payment system for disbursement of the allowances of Social Safety Net programmes. The PM inaugurated the system through a videoconference from the Ganobhaban yesterday. Under the system, more than 6.6 million beneficiaries would directly draw the money every month from banks after getting the message through mobile phones. Addressing the function, the Prime Minister said, these allowances are just to ensure that no one suffers from starvation, but nobody should st...
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Johnson poised to make explosive resignation speech to MPs
18Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Johnson poised to make explosive resignation speech to MPs

    Boris Johnson is poised to make a potentially explosive resignation statement to MPs, nine days after quitting as Foreign Secretary. Many MPs believe it could be as spectacular and dramatic as that of Sir Geoffrey Howe in 1990, which brought about the downfall of Margaret Thatcher. Mr Johnson was spotting approaching the Chair and seeking the permission of the Commons Speaker, John Bercow, during one of the votes on the Government's latest Brexit legislation, the Trade Bill. He has opted to make a formal resignation statement, as he is entitled to do under parliamentary convention, rather than speak in a Commons debate, as David Davis who also quit the Cabinet over Brexit chose to do on Monday. That way, again according to Parliamentary convention, the former fore...
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EU and Japan sign monumental free-trade deal
18Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

EU and Japan sign monumental free-trade deal

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) signs an agreement with European Council President. The European Union and Japan signed a monumental trade deal Tuesday, eliminating nearly all tariffs between the entities in one of the world’s largest free-trade deals. The pact, signed in Tokyo, covers a third of the global economy, the Associated Press reports. The agreement is in stark contrast to President Donald Trump’s trade war and alignment with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. Although the leaders didn’t mention him by name, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and EU leaders Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker distanced themselves from Trump’s tactics in a press conference following the deal. Politically, it’s a light in the increasing darkness of internati...
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UK risks being prosecuted over killing civilians and illegal drone ops
17Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

UK risks being prosecuted over killing civilians and illegal drone ops

    British military personnel could be prosecuted for killing civilians in drone strikes and risk becoming complicit in alleged war crimes committed by the US, an inquiry has found. A two-year probe by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Drones revealed that the number of operations facilitated by the UK in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia has been growing without any public scrutiny. As well as launching its own strikes, the Ministry of Defence is assisting operations by the US and other allies that could violate both national and international law, it said. Professor Michael Clarke, chair of the parliamentary drones group, said the UK was working with countries including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar that do not work on standard Nato rule...
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Putin slams ungrounded accusations over UK nerve agent attack
17Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Russia

Putin slams ungrounded accusations over UK nerve agent attack

    Vladimir Putin has addressed the Novichok poisonings in the UK as he was asked why so many of his political opponents end up dead. The Russian president slammed the 'ungrounded accusations' against Moscow over the nerve agent attack which left one woman dead and three people in comas. And the former KGB agent failed to answer a bold question from a Fox News host about the mysterious deaths of his enemies. In an exclusive interview , following his summit with Donald Trump in Helsinki yesterday, journalist Chris Wallace asked Putin outright why so many people who oppose him end up dead. The news anchor listed a number of Russians who have been targeted, including former double agent Sergei Skripal and Boris Nemtsov, a Russian politician who was shot dead outside the...
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