Malaysia to kick out North Korean envoy in row over Kim Jong Nam death
Malaysia declared the North Korean ambassador "persona non grata" and plans to expel him from the country in 48 hours, its Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Saturday.
PM flays Muhith for praising Yunus
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday censured finance minister AMA Muhith presumably for praising the contribution of Nobel laureate and former Grameen Bank managing director Muhammad Yunus to the country’s poverty reduction through micro-credit.
PM urges mothers to be best friends of children
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged the parents, particularly mothers, to build up friendly relations with their children to prevent them from going astray or bending to extremism, terrorism and drug.
Protests flare as BCL men loot shop in Rangpur city
Several hundred local people took to the streets after Bangladesh Chhatra League activists of Begum Rokeya University unit on Saturday ransacked a fast food shop and looted valuables in Rangpur city after failing to extort money.
Visiting UK minister calls on Khaleda
Visiting United Kingdom’s minister for Asia and the Pacific Alok Sharma on Saturday told Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia that the UK wants to see a free and fair election in Bangladesh.
Interns of six govt medical college hospitals go on strike
Interns at government’s medical college hospitals on Saturday began an indefinite strike in protest against suspension of four fellow colleagues of Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital in Bogra.
Mike Pence on personal email use: 'No comparison' to Clinton
Vice President Mike Pence defended his use of a personal email account to conduct state business while he was Indiana's governor, saying "there's no comparison" between his situation and the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server that rocked the 2016 presidential campaign.
China's 'unofficial' sanctions rattle South Korea
South Korean businesses were rattled Friday by signs that the deployment of a controversial U.S. missile system in the country could spark a travel boycott by China.
EU parliament urges visas for US citizens visiting Europe
Members of the European Parliament have called for the European Commission to impose visas on US citizens visiting Europe amid an ongoing dispute over visa restrictions against five EU nations.
Suspected chemical attack in Mosul, Red Cross says
Twelve residents of the war-torn Iraqi city of Mosul were treated for injuries from a suspected chemical attack this week, an official with the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
