Finance News: Latest Financial News, Finance News today in Bangladesh

Sudan security forces conduct raid ahead of mass protest

KHARTOUM, June 30 (BBC): Sudan's main opposition group says security forces raided its office and blocked a new conference on the eve of mass protests against military rule.Security forces have been patrolling parts of the capital, Khartoum, ahead Sunday's planned protests.The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) called for a "million-strong" march...

Spain wildfire triggers more evacuations

MADRID, June 30 (AFP): Spanish authorities ordered the evacuation on Sunday of around 40 homes as a raging wildfire advanced in the centre of the country and temperatures soared.Police ordered residents to flee their homes outside the town of Cadalso de los Vidrios some 80 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of...

Hifter threatens to target Turkish interests

CAIRO, June 30 (AP): The forces of Libya's Khalifa Hifter said that Turkish vessels and interests are "legitimate targets" in its battle to seize the capital of Tripoli, after it accused Turkey of helping rival militias allied with the UN-supported government.The self-styled Libyan National Army, led by Hifter, already controls...

Latest round of talks with US critical, say Taliban

ISLAMABAD, June 30 (AP): A Taliban spokesman says the seventh and latest round of peace talks with the US is "critical," as the militant group meets with Washington's envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in the Mideastern state of Qatar, where it maintains a political office.Suhail Shaheen told The Associated Press Sunday that...

Talks to break Venezuela deadlock set to resume

BOGOTA, June 30 (AP): Negotiations aimed at breaking Venezuela's political standoff will resume next week, likely on the Caribbean island of Barbados, according to three people familiar with the talks between representatives of President Nicolas Maduro and the US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido.The sources, who spoke to The Associated Press...

Imran will visit US in July to meet Trump

ISLAMABAD, June 30 (AP): A Pakistani top official says the country's Prime Minister Imran Khan will travel to the US to meet with President Donald Trump in late July.Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Sunday this would be the first high-level engagement between the two countries while peace...

Guterres urges action to avert climate change 'catastrophe'

ABU DHABI, June 30 (AFP): UN chief Antonio Guterres said climate-related devastation was striking the planet on a weekly basis and warned Sunday that urgent action must be taken to avoid a catastrophe."We are here because the world is facing a grave climate emergency," Guterres told a two-day Abu Dhabi...

Israel releases Palestinian minister

JERUSALEM, June 30 (AFP): Israeli police on Sunday released from custody the Palestinian minister for Jerusalem affairs after questioning him over claims he organised activities in the city in violation of Israeli rules, his lawyer said.Palestinian minister for Jerusalem affairs Fadi al-Hadami had been arrested in his east Jerusalem home...

News in Brief -(01-07-2019)

Bahrain court overturns strippingof 92 Shiites' citizenshipDUBAI, June 30: A Bahraini appeals court overturned a decision to strip the citizenship of 92 Shiites jailed for plotting to form an Iran-linked "terror" group, a judicial source said on Sunday. The 92 were among 138 sentenced to prison terms and the revocation...