Beijing: China’s third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has officially entered service following a ceremony that marked its handover to the navy. The event, attended by President Xi Jinping, was reported by state news agency Xinhua.
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Manila: The Philippines on Friday cited typhoons and an ongoing scandal over bogus flood control projects in reporting third-quarter economic growth of just four percent, its lowest quarterly growth in four years. The disappointing reading comes as th…
Istanbul: Eighteen people are being held in Turkey as part of an investigation into alleged betting by referees on football matches, according to the Istanbul prosecutor’s office. The probe has raised significant concerns about the integrity of footba…
Digholia: In the quiet village of Brahmagati under Digholia upazila in Khulna, a once struggling mason has turned his life around through hard work and determination. Mizanur Rahman, a 35-year-old local youth, is now a successful poultry farmer and an…
Rangpur: The leaders of BNP and its affiliated organizations have said that the spontaneous Sepoy-People’s Revolution on November 7, 1975, foiled the hegemonic conspiracy against the country’s independence and sovereignty. They made the observation wh…
Beirut: Iran strongly condemned on Friday what it called “savage” Israeli attacks on Lebanon, after its arch-foe hit targets belonging to the Tehran-backed Hezbollah movement. In a statement, the Iranian foreign ministry urged “the United Nations, the…
Mongla: Two people were killed and seven others injured when a passenger bus turned turtle and fell into a roadside ditch in the Tetulia Bridge area on the Mongla-Khulna Highway in the district this afternoon. The identities of the victims could not b…
Judeira: The Israeli military announced on Friday that it had killed two teenagers accused of throwing Molotov cocktails in the occupied West Bank village of Judeira overnight. The incident took place as tensions in the region continue to escalate.
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Geneva: The number of people facing emergency levels of hunger in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has nearly doubled since last year, the United Nations said Friday. The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) expressed concerns about a “deepening hu…