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DHAKA Aug 31 (Online): Thousands of Bangladeshi protesters have marched demanding information on hundreds of people they say security forces have abducted during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s nearly 15 years in power. Opposition supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies joined families […]

RAWALPINDI, Aug 31 (APP): Nine soldiers of Pakistan Army on Thursday embraced martyrdom after a motorcycle-borne suicide bomber exploded him while targeting a military convoy in general area Jani Khel of Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Among the nine soldiers Naib Subedar Sanobar Ali also […]

Beijing, Aug 30 (AFP/APP): British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said he had raised human rights concerns at “every single one” of his meetings with top Chinese officials, as he made a state visit to Beijing on Wednesday. Cleverly, the first UK foreign minister to visit […]

Tokyo, Aug 23 (AFP/APP): Final preparations to discharge waste water from the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan were under way Wednesday, its operator said, a day before the scheduled release into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo had announced on Tuesday that the operation would begin […]

Tripoli, Aug 28 (Online): Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh has suspended his foreign minister Najla al-Mangoush over a meeting with her Israeli counterpart. The Speaker’s Office in parliament had accused Najla Mangoush of grand treason, and Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah referred her for […]

Bucharest, Aug 27 (AFP/APP): Prosecutors opened an inquiry Sunday into two explosions at an unlicensed liquefied petroleum gas filling station that left two people dead and 56 people injured north of Romania’s capital Bucharest at the weekend. Most of the injured were firefighters who rushed […]