Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Tag Archives: Bangladesh
Thai summit to spotlight Myanmar, Bangladesh over migrant crisis
Myanmar and Bangladesh face renewed pressure to tackle “the root causes” of an annual migration crisis after Thailand on Thursday announced a regional summit ahead of the new sailing season. Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled western Myanmar
Arrest in Bangladesh over death threats to secular writers
Bangladesh police have arrested a suspected militant for sending death threats to prominent secular academics, as the country reels from rising extremist violence, officers said Wednesday. Police accuse Abdul Haque, a former teacher at an Islamic seminary, of threatening noted
Bangladesh war convicts seek presidential clemency
Two Bangladeshi opposition leaders on Saturday asked the president to save them from death penalties, Law Minster Anisul Huq told Reuters. Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the final appeals by Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury against
Publisher hacked to death in new Bangladesh attacks
A publisher of a slain online critic of religious militancy was hacked to death on Saturday in the Bangladesh capital, police said, hours after similar attacks on two secular writers and another publisher in the majority-Muslim country. Faysal Arefin published
Bangladesh accuses opposition official of Italian’s murder
A senior Bangladeshi minister accused a main opposition party official Wednesday of ordering an Italian aid worker’s murder as part of a plot to destabilize the government. Police are hunting for Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) official M.A. Quayum for allegedly
Bangladeshi murder suspect deported
The Bangladeshi domestic aide who was arrested in Jeddah on a Dhaka murder charge, was deported Thursday, a senior official from the Bangladesh Consulate General’s Office in Jeddah told Arab News on Monday. Magistrate Anwarul Haque of Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate
Bangladesh brokers ‘violating’ labor pact
Local recruitment businesses are complaining that the Bangladesh government has failed to provide the 500,000 housemaids it had promised earlier this year, with only 2,000 employed in the Kingdom over the past six months. Mishari Al-Thufairi, chairman of the recruitment
ISIS claims killing of Japanese citizen in Bangladesh
ISIS claimed responsibility for the killing of a Japanese man in Bangladesh on Saturday, in a statement posted on their official Twitter account. Police in Bangladesh said they had detained four people in connection with the shooting of the man,
Thousands celebrate India-Bangladesh border pact
Thousands living near the Bangladesh-India border celebrated Sunday an historic agreement that will allow them to choose their nationality after decades of stateless limbo. Poor villagers living in border enclaves waved Bangladeshi flags, held street parades and broke down in
Rana Plaza owner, 40 others charged with murder
Bangladeshi police on Monday charged 41 people including the owner of the Rana Plaza factory complex with murder after the building collapsed killing more than 1,100 people in 2013. A court in Dhaka formally accepted charges against Sohel Rana, 35,
IT chief at Bangladesh Coca-Cola unit arrested as ISIS suspect
An IT manager at a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Co was one of two men arrested in Bangladesh on suspicion of planning to fight for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), police and company sources said on Monday. The
Indonesia, Malaysia to help Muslim migrants stranded at sea
Indonesia and Malaysia agreed Wednesday to provide temporary shelter to thousands of migrants stranded at sea, the first breakthrough in the humanitarian crisis confronting Southeast Asia after weeks of reluctance by the region’s nations to take responsibility. The announcement was
Malaysia turns away boat with more than 500 migrants
Malaysia has turned away a boat with more than 500 Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis after providing them with fuel and provisions, a government official said Thursday. The boat was found Wednesday off the coast of northern Penang state, just days
Will retaliate if election is rigged: Khaleda Zia
The leader of Bangladesh’s main opposition party threatened retaliation if local elections being held this week are not conducted fairly. Bangladesh has been marred by months of violence, much of it attacks against vehicles during transport blockades organized by the
Thousands mourn son of Bangladesh opposition leader
DHAKA: Tens of thousands of mourners turned out Tuesday for the funeral of Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s son in a massive show of support for the embattled former premier. Arafat Rahman Koko, 44, died of a heart attack on
Bangladesh Islamist politician sentenced to death for war crimes
A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentenced an Islamist party leader to death on Tuesday after convicting him of atrocities committed during a 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. A.T.M. Azharul Islam, 62, assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was
India detains suspect in plot to kill Bangladesh PM
Indian police have arrested a key suspect in a blast in West Bengal state who they believe is linked to a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of neighbouring Bangladesh and stage a coup there. Shahnor Alom, who was
British reporter convicted for doubting Bangladesh war toll
DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Tuesday found an award-winning British journalist guilty of contempt for questioning the official death toll of three million in the country’s 1971 independence war. Judges from a special war crimes court ruled that a blog
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