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Japan PM Abe wants to hold summit with China at APEC

Elaine Lies of Reuters from Tokyo | 2014-07-21 00:00:00

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he wanted to hold a summit with China at the APEC leaders meeting in Beijing in November to improve relations strained by territorial and security issues, but drew a cool response from...

ECB interest rates too low for Germany, says Bundesbank chief

Paul Carrel of Reuters from Frankfurt | 2014-07-21 00:00:00

The European Central Bank should tighten policy as soon as it can and its interest rates are too low for Germany, Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said, pointing to tensions in the united front the bank has presented since a major...

Merkel blasts US spying, hopes Washington will change tack

Alexandra Hudson of Reuters from Berlin | 2014-07-21 00:00:00

Angela Merkel said on Saturday that new allegations of U.S. spying showed Berlin and Washington were completely at odds over how they viewed the role of intelligence, and she hoped German action would persuade the United States not to spy...

Chinese oil rig moved away from disputed waters off Vietnam

John Ruwitch and Nguyen Phuong Linh of Reuters from Shanghai/Hanoi | 2014-07-21 00:00:00

A Chinese oil rig has finished drilling near the disputed Paracel islands in the South China Sea after finding signs of oil and gas and is being moved away from the area, more than two months after its deployment damaged...

Detailed DSE Trading

2014-07-21 00:00:00

Brazil eyeing Japan\\\'s help in oil project

2014-07-21 00:00:00

TOKYO, July 20 (AFP) : Brazil plans to use Japanese technology in building a floating structure and ships for its huge offshore oil development project, media reports said Sunday. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will...

Croatia launches oil, gas exploration tender

2014-07-21 00:00:00

ZAGREB, July 20 (AFP) : Croatia on Friday launched an international tender for oil and gas exploration in the east of the country that would hopefully bring investments to revive its sluggish economy. The tender follows the one launched by...

Israel\\\'s offensive badly hurts Gaza economy

2014-07-21 00:00:00

GAZA, July 20 (Xinhua) : For 14 days, stores, factories and businesses totally suspended, while Gaza's economy was badly hurt as Israel's ever escalating large-scale offensive on the coastal enclave continues with aerial bombardment and ground incursion that has led...

Amu dismisses HRW demand to disband Rab

2014-07-21 00:00:00

Dismissing the rights group Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) demand to disband the elite force Rab, Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Monday said it is the internal matter of Bangladesh. “It’s our internal matter. We won’t take any decision based...

EPA proposal could block huge Alaska mine

2014-07-21 00:00:00

JUNEAU, Alaska, July 20 (AP): The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed restrictions Friday that would essentially block development of a planned massive gold-and-copper mine near the headwaters of a world premier salmon fishery in Alaska. The announcement came as the...

New Peru law weakens environmental safeguards

2014-07-21 00:00:00

LIMA, Peru, July 20 (AP): Dozens of international groups, the United Nations, and even Peru's own citizen ombudsman are objecting to a new law that weakens environmental protections in the Andean nation even as it prepares to host international climate-control...

Roche CEO plans to steer clear of big acquisitions

2014-07-21 00:00:00

ZURICH, July 19 (Reuters) :  Roche plans to steer clear of the wave of big takeovers sweeping through the healthcare industry and focus instead on small acquisitions and partnerships, the Swiss drugmaker's chief executive said in an interview published on...

Grain mostly lower, beef mostly higher, pork mixed

2014-07-21 00:00:00

CHICAGO, July 20 (AP) :  Grain futures were lower Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sept delivery was 18.50 cents lower at $5.3225 a bushel; Sept corn was 8.25 cents lower at 3.7125 a bushel; Dec oats...

Thousands flee Shejaiya

2014-07-21 00:00:00

GAZA CITY, July 20 (agencies): They walked in their thousands, barefoot and in their pyjamas, streaming out of the eastern Gaza district of Shejaiya after a night of non-stop Israeli bombing. They described hours of terror, as tank shells slammed...

Jihadists claim Baghdad blasts as Iraq rallies behind Christians

2014-07-21 00:00:00

BAGHDAD, July 20 (AP): The Islamic State on Sunday claimed responsibility for deadly Baghdad bombings, as the Christians they drove out of Mosul grieved for their lost homes and uncertain future in Iraq. The flight of the centuries-old Christian community...

Pakistani civilian dies in Indian border fire

2014-07-21 00:00:00

ISLAMABAD, July 20 (AFP): Pakistani officials on Sunday accused Indian troops of killing a civilian and wounding four others in "unprovoked firing" across the border in its eastern province of Punjab. India and Pakistan often accuse each other of violating...

False rape claim behind latest religious clashes in Myanmar

2014-07-21 00:00:00

YANGON, July 20 (AFP): Myanmar's latest religious clashes began after a Buddhist woman was paid to make false rape claims against two Muslim brothers, state media reported Sunday. Two men-a Buddhist and a Muslim-died in riots in the country's second...

Bodies removed from MH17 crash site in Ukraine

2014-07-21 00:00:00

GRABOVE, July 20 (agencies): Scores of bodies recovered at the crash site of Malaysian plane MH17 in Ukraine have been removed, an AFP reporter on the scene said on Sunday. Pro-Russian rebels who had been guarding the main impact site...

BB announces agri-loan policy

2014-07-21 00:00:00

Setting a Tk 156-billion disbursement target, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Monday announced the agriculture-loan policy and programmes for fiscal 2014-15, up 6.54 per cent than last year's. Announcing the new agri-loan policy, Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman said...

Indonesian presidential poll results Tuesday

2014-07-21 00:00:00

JAKARTA, July 20 (AFP) - Jakarta governor Joko Widodo is expected to be declared the winner of Indonesia's disputed presidential election this week but his rival, ex-general Prabowo Subianto, is set to mount a legal challenge that could prolong the...

news digest

2014-07-21 00:00:00

Iran MP welcomes nuclear talks extension TEHRAN, July 20: An influential Iranian MP has welcomed the country's four-month extension of nuclear negotiations with world powers, saying it signalled mutual willingness to reach a comprehensive agreement. The remarks by Aladin Borujerdi,...

Photo: LIBYA : Smoke billows from the site of clashes

2014-07-21 00:00:00

Photo: LEBANON : A woman shouts as she takes part in a protest

2014-07-21 00:00:00

Deriving maximum benefit from newly acquired maritime territories

Muhammad Zamir | 2014-07-21 00:00:00

It has taken forty years.  What started in 1974 through the initiative of the then Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (who recognised for the first time the importance of maritime areas being able to provide us with additional resources)...

BRICS Bank should not be a clone of IMF or World Bank

B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2014-07-21 00:00:00

Sceptics wonder whether the BRICS has enough in common to build a strong alliance. At the latest summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries launched a slew of initiatives, including two new international financial...

Carnage in Gaza

2014-07-21 00:00:00

It surely is sad to see the baggage of hostilities the Israelis and the Palestinians have been carrying in the new millennium. The hostilities break out from time to time in bloody confrontation like the latest one in which civilian...

Revisiting the proverbial pond

Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-07-21 00:00:00

Very often one particular instance of a project involving the excavation and filling up of a pond is cited to show the high level of corruption in the implementation of projects in rural areas under the government's Test Relief (TR)...

Why are airliners shot down?

Neil Ray | 2014-07-21 00:00:00

As if the mysterious disappearance of Flight 370 of the Malaysia Airlines with 239 passengers was not enough, another of its Boeing 777 flights MH 17 has been shot down over Russian rebel-held Ukraine! There is no reason to think...

Chunarughat Govt. College

2014-07-21 00:00:00

Any SSC passed student who has minimum target to complete HSC has a long cherished desire to have admission to a government college. They do it with quality education in mind. Of course it lessens the expenditure as well. But...

UN under secy gen of DPKO due Tuesday

2014-07-21 00:00:00

Under Secretary General and Head of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) of the United Nations Herv Ladsous arrives in Dhaka on Tuesday on a three-day official visit. During his visit, Ladsous is expected to call on President Abdul Hamid,...