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

Amnesty seeks probe to end Philippine anti-drug killings

MANILA, July 08 (AP): Amnesty International urgently called for international pressure and an immediate UN investigation to help end what it says are possible crimes against humanity in the Philippine president's bloody anti-drug crackdown.The London-based rights watchdog said in a study released on Monday that extrajudicial killings in President Rodrigo...

Son of South Korean defectors moves to North for working on reunification

SEOUL, July 08 (BBC): The son of high-profile South Korean defectors is reported to have moved to North Korea, in a rare case of someone seeking to settle in the dictatorship.Choe In-guk is the son of a South Korean ex-foreign minister who defected to the North with his wife in...

Talks with Venezuela govt to resume: Guaido

CARACAS, July 08 (AFP): Dialogue between Venezuela's opposition and President Nicolas Maduro's government will resume in Barbados, self- declared interim president Juan Guaido said on Sunday, after previous negotiations in Norway petered out."In response to the mediation of the Kingdom of Norway (the opposition) will attend a meeting with representatives...

UK hunts culprit behind leak of envoy's missives

LONDON, July 08 (AP): The British government is hunting for the source of a leak of diplomatic cables from Britain's ambassador in Washington that branded President Donald Trump's administration "dysfunctional" and "inept."British officials are embarrassed by the publication of Kim Darroch's unflattering assessment - but more alarmed that sensitive confidential...

Taliban free 40 Afghan security personnel

KABUL, July 08 (Xinhua): Taliban militants have set free 40 security personnel from their custody in northern Jawzjan province, an army spokesman in the northern region Abdul Hadi Jamal said on Monday.Jamal said a bunch of 40 security personnel, mostly policemen, had been released by the Taliban outfit and reached...

Massive forest fire breaks out in Lanka

COLOMBO, July 08 (Xinhua): The Sri Lanka Airforce on Monday dispatched a Bell 212 helicopter to douse a massive forest fire which broke out in the Maragala Mountain area in Moneragala, in the Uva Province over the weekend, local media reports said.Till Monday noon, over 500 acres (an estimated 2.023...

News in Brief -(09-07-2019)

German vessel transfers 65 migrants to Malta VALLETTA, July 08: Sixty-five migrants that were on board the vessel Alan Kurdi operated by an German NGO were transferred to an Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) patrol boat and disembarked at the army's Hay Wharf base late on Sunday evening. The German-flagged...