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Bitcoin loses one-third of value over week

Bitcoin continues to give its investors an exciting ride. This week, it has fallen by about one-third from a record high of just short of $20,000, reports BBC.So far, on Friday alone, it has lost 14 per cent of its value, falling to $13,419, according to the Coindesk exchange website....

Traders eye fall in onion prices in few days

Although the price of onion has been on an upward trend, traders are expecting a huge fall in the price once the newly harvested onions start coming to the city kitchen markets, reports UNB.During a visit to the kitchen markets at Dhanmondi, Mohammadpur, Mohakhali and Segun Bagicha in the city,...

Warming drives climate refugees to Europe

The numbers of climate refugees seeking asylum in Europe by the end of the century will be almost three times greater than today unless the world makes radical cuts to its greenhouse gas emissions, reports UNB.Researchers say migrants applying for asylum in the European Union will by 2100 nearly triple...

The Economist names France as ‘country of the year’

LONDON, Dec 21 (AFP): The Economist named France as its country of the year on Thursday, saying new President Emmanuel Macron had upset the odds to strike a victory for open societies and reform.The London-based weekly news magazine said the battle between open and closed visions of society was the...

Mostafiz wins Rangpur city polls

RANGPUR, Dec 21 (UNB): Jatiya Party candidate Mostafizur Rahman won the Rangpur City Corporation polls defeating his nearest rival Awami League contender Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu by a huge margin in the election held in a peaceful manner on Thursday.According to the unofficial result, Mostafiz bagged 1,60,489 votes while Jhantu polled...

Acute malnutrition ails Rohingya children

COX'S BAZAR, Dec 22 (UNB): Rohingya children who have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh are suffering from acute malnutrition and anaemia, Unicef said on Friday.According to three health and nutrition surveys conducted between October 22 and November 27 in refugee camps and makeshift settlements, up to 25 per cent of children...

Russian bank says hackers targeted its SWIFT computers

MOSCOW/TORONTO, Dec 21 (Reuters): Hackers tried to steal 55 million roubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the bank said on Thursday, the latest in a string of attempted cyber heists that use fraudulent wire-transfer requests. Globex President Valery Ovsyannikov told Reuters via...

State Department tells refugee agencies to downsize US operations

WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters): The US State Department has told refugee agencies it will sharply pare back the number of offices across the country authorized to resettle people in 2018 as President Donald Trump cuts the number of refugees allowed into the United States. The announcement was made at a...

After Reuters arrests, Myanmar reporters fear meeting same fate

Some human rights advocates say press freedom is under attack in Myanmar, even though decades of rule by a junta that tightly controlled the media has given way to a government led by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, reports Reuters.Myanmar has detained at least 29 journalists in the...

A group of artistes perform a dance

A group of artistes perform a dance at the inaugural ceremony of the three-day Poush Mela 1424 (winter festival) on the Bangla Academy premises in Dhaka on Friday. — Focus Bangla

A boat race

A boat race, organised by Bangladesh Rowing Federation in Hatirjheel Lake in the capital on Friday to mark the Victory Day (Dec 16) enthrals sightseers. — FE Photo