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Russia has already evaluated any potential "retaliatory steps" it can take if the country's assets are seized, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. Peskov made the remarks while commenting on Washington's proposal made within the G7, where it urged working groups to...
A Chinese envoy on Friday asked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to be cautious in dealing with the appointment of a special envoy for Afghanistan. The UN Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution on the Afghanistan independent assessment, which requests the secretary-general to appoint a...
A UN official on Friday warned of the consequences of the threat posed by Yemen's Houthi militia on maritime navigation in the Red Sea."The continued Houthi threat to maritime navigation in the Red Sea is of growing concern. It risks exacerbating regional tensions, and further escalation, a...
Turkish security forces detained 189 suspected members of the Islamic State in an operation codenamed "Heroes-38" across 37 provinces in the country, a cabinet minister said on Saturday.The operation was carried out "simultaneously" in all the provinces, Interior Minister Ali Yer...
World,Back Page
In a video message released on the eve of 2024, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed the world, reflecting on the trials and tribulations of the past year and offering a vision of unity and hope for the year ahead."2023 has been a year of enormous suffering, violence, and climate cha...
Zimbabwe and Zambia will experience further curtailed electricity generation from their two hydropower stations at Lake Kariba following a reduction in water allocation to their two power utilities for the coming year by the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA).ZRA announced Thursday that the Zimbabwe Powe...
Italy has experienced a record-setting number of extreme weather events in 2023, a year that is set to be the warmest in more than 150 years, reports said on Thursday.According to the climate observatory run by the environmental lobby group Legambiente, Italy reported 378 severe weather events in 20...
Business
Following China's tone-setting Central Economic Work Conference earlier this month, multiple government authorities have convened meetings, making specific arrangements to anchor the growth momentum of the Chinese economy in 2024.Boosting sci-tech innovation and expanding domestic demand are amo...
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The total number of Bangladesh's mobile phone users hit over 190 million at the end of November this year, showed the latest statistics of the country's telecom regulator.According to data from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the number of subscribers in the So...
During the Christmas season, Care Bears dressed in Santa Claus hats and other decorations, an adorable plush toy favored by kids, can be easily found on the shelves of shopping malls in the United States.Care Bears are multicolored bears that were used on greeting cards and later turned into plush b...
Two people were killed and 29 others injured on Monday in a fire that broke out at an apartment building in Seoul, according to Yonhap news agency.The fire occurred at about 4:57 a.m. local time (1957 GMT Sunday) on the third floor of the 27-story apartment building in Seoul.Two men in their 30s and...
China will continue to implement its proactive fiscal policy by "appropriately" strengthening it to improve its effectiveness in 2024, according to Minister of Finance Lan Fo'an.The country plans to maintain an appropriate level of spending intensity, Lan said at a national fiscal work...
The death toll of Palestinians from Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to 19,667, and 52,586 others were wounded since Oct. 7, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said on Tuesday.Meanwhile, Palestinian deaths and injuries from Israeli raids in the West Bank climbed to 301 and 3,365, respectively,...
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The current humanitarian program in Gaza "is no longer functioning well," said the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) at a press conference here on Thursday.Martin Griffiths expressed his grave concerns, saying the relentless military assault has obli...
At Chattogram port, Bangladesh's first sea-land integrated super-large oil storage and transportation system has been put into operation, with a 100,000-ton oil tanker unloading oil through the Chinese-built single-point mooring (SPM) system.The SPM system project was completed by builders from ...
Remittances from Bangladeshi people living and working overseas totaled nearly 9 billion U.S. dollars in the July-November period of the current fiscal year 2023-24 through next June, a central bank official said Monday.Quoting provisional Bangladesh Bank (BB) data, the official who asked not to be ...
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has decided to reduce its Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) by 100 basis points to 9.00 percent and 10.00 percent, respectively, it said in a statement on Friday.The central bank said its monetary policy board arrived at...
McDonald's recently announced a decision to buy private equity firm Carlyle's entire 28 percent stake in its China business, which was sold by the burger chain in 2017.The reacquisition, which will increase McDonald's holding to 48 percent, has shown its confidence in the Chinese consume...
Herbert Darwin Mangatas, director of PT Gapura Segara Borneo, an Indonesian freight shipping agency, came to China's Tianjin in search of potential business partners."There are one or two Chinese companies asking for some collaborations. I hope we can have some dealings," Mangatas said...
China is certain to become the world's largest automobile exporter this year, as its auto exports in the first 10 months hit 3.9 million units, an official with the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade said here Friday.Wang Xia, head of the council's automotive sub-council,...
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