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ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada and Ethiopia are preparing to start negotiations towards a foreign investment protection agreement. Trudeau is in Addis Ababa to meet with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Sahle-Work Zewde. He spent more than two hours with Abiy, including more than an hour in a private tour of […]

Soldiers and police have launched a joint hunt for Sergeant-Major First Class Jakrapanth Thomma, who allegedly went on a shooting rampage in Nakhon Ratchasima province, gunning down at least 20 people with some 31 people injured. The suspect is reported to have sneaked into Terminal 21 shopping mall in Muang district and taken some people […]

Medical workers gesture to each other through the window in Zhangzhou Municipal Hospital in Zhangzhou, Southeast China’s Fujian province, on Feb 2, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] An online consultation platform, through which experienced medical experts can give guidance to hospitals across Fujian province on treating patients with the novel coronavirus, has gotten results, as patients’ situations are […]

 The purge of impeachment witnesses has begun. Within hours of each other, President Donald Trump and the White House removed two of the most crucial witnesses against the president in the investigation that led to his impeachment for abuse of power. Late Friday, news emerged that Trump had ordered the recall of Gordon Sondland, the […]

Get short URL An Airbus A320 operated by Cham Wings © Flightradar / Oleksiy Naumov Israeli strikes on Damascus suburbs put a civilian aircraft in serious danger and forced it to divert to Russia’s Khmeimim airbase as the Syrian air defense was activated to repel the attack, the Russian military said. An Airbus A320 flying […]

File photo: Dr Li Wenliang. [Photo/Agencies] Dr Li Wenliang, one of eight people who tried to warn about the novel coronavirus when it first emerged in Wuhan, now the epidemic center of the disease, but was reprimanded by local police, passed away on Friday from the virus, according to the Central Hospital of Wuhan. “After […]

Since time immemorial Bangladesh has been taking on aids, grants and financial assistance from the global community. But now, it is providing debt relief to another nation, in a testament of the progress the country has made. Bangladesh has agreed to give Tk 8.21 crore to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as debt relief for […]

President Xi Jinping meets with Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday. PANG XINGLEI / XINHUA Cambodian prime minister’s visit a sign of friendship at special moment China has the confidence and capability to win the battle on the prevention and control of the pneumonia […]

The United States Senate cleared Donald Trump of both charges in its impeachment trial of the president, bringing to an end the impeachment saga that has consumed Washington since the House of Representatives launched its inquiry into the Trump’s actions last September. In a 52-48 vote, the Senate found Trump not guilty of abusing his power of office. The Senate voted […]

A demonstrator carries an Iraqi flag as he walks near burning tires, during ongoing anti-government protests in Najaf, Iraq. (File photo: Reuters) At least seven people were killed and 53 others injured in clashes in Iraq’s southern city of Najaf on Wednesday after supporters of populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed an anti-government protest camp, medical […]