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June 26, 2019 8:23 AM

San Francisco bans e-cigarette sales

San Francisco has become the first major US city to effectively ban the sale and manufacture of electronic cigarettes. The city's board of supervisors unanimously endorsed legislation yesterday which backers said was necessary due to the significant public health consequences of a dramatic surg...

June 26, 2019 8:22 AM

20,000 migrants rescued from Sahara in three years: IOM

<h3><br />''</h3>The International Organization for Migration, IOM has said that nearly 20 thousand migrants have been rescued from the Sahara desert in Niger over the past three years.<br />''<br />'&apos...

June 25, 2019 9:04 PM

UN expresses concern over religious, ethnic tensions in Sri Lanka

<span style="color: #222222;">The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has expressed concern over the religious and ethnic tensions in Sri Lanka following the Easter Sunday attacks saying the friction between the government and the President is a hu...

June 25, 2019 11:51 AM

Iran slams new US sanctions say they mean end of diplomacy

Iran today slammed Trump administration over new U.S. sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic's supreme leader and other top officials. Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said the measures spell permanent closure of diplomacy between Tehran and Washington. &l...

June 25, 2019 11:47 AM

UN Security Council urges dialogue, end to US-Iran tensions

Condemning the latest attacks on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, the UN Security Council has urged all parties to exercise maximum restraint and take measures and actions to reduce escalation and tension. The UN's most powerful body said the attacks violate international rules on freedom of na...

June 25, 2019 11:46 AM

Bangladesh receives highest ever net FDI amounting to 3.61 bn dollars

Bangladesh received net foreign direct investment (FDI) amounting to 3.61 billion dollars in 2018, which is its highest ever. The surge of about 68 per cent over last year came as Japan Tobacco Inc invested 1.47 billion dollars in purchasing the business from a Bangladeshi company. Power sector attr...

June 25, 2019 8:19 AM

Council of Europe restores Russia?s voting rights

<h3><br />''</h3>Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has voted in favour of restoring Russia's voting rights, five years after they were revoked over its illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. <br /&gt...

June 25, 2019 7:38 AM

US President Trump signs order to impose fresh sanctions on Iran

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order, which he said, will impose hard-hitting sanctions on Iran and deny the Iranian Supreme Leader and other officials access to financial instruments within US jurisdiction. He signed the order in presence of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last...

June 25, 2019 7:19 AM

Rail communication between Sylhet and other parts of Bangladesh resumes

The rail communication between Sylhet and other parts of Bangladesh resumed late in the evening yesterday after the train accident at Baramchal in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar on Monday.<br />''<br />''Briefing media persons in Dhaka yesterday, Cabin...

June 24, 2019 9:47 PM

Iraqi special forces kill 14 IS militants in country's north

<span style="color: #222222;">Iraqi special forces today said in Baghdad that they have conducted an operation near the northern city of Kirkuk in which they killed 14 members of the Islamic State group. </span><br />'' <br...

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