Probashbangla24 online Desk : India signed a $5 billion deal to buy five Russian S-400 air defense systems on Friday despite a looming threat of US sanctions on countries that trade with Russia’s defense and intelligence sectors. The deal was signed in New Delhi during a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who met with…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : One little girl draws a nightmarish picture of people calling for rescue as they drown in rising water. Another sketches a huge snake with sharp teeth to show the power and danger of flooding. These disturbing images are the work of children at a primary school in Can Tho province, a region…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A week after a major earthquake brought devastation to Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, Ichsan Hidayat told how the bodies of his sister and her 43-day-old daughter were found under a sea of mud and debris, the mother clutching her baby to her chest. Hidayat was not on Sulawesi last Friday when the…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : The Nobel Peace Prize is always widely anticipated and sometimes controversial. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which will announce this year’s prize on Friday, has received nominations for 216 individuals and 115 organizations. But only a few dozen of them are known — the committee keeps the list of nominations secret for 50…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Six months out from Brexit, how are those involved with the UK’s nuclear sector viewing the prospect? The area around the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria is the heartland of the UK’s nuclear industry. It was there, on 17 October 1956, that the Queen opened the world’s first full-scale nuclear power station…
Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pic) said he is not affected by criticisms or insults, saying this is the “price” one has to pay for being in politics. “A politician must accept being criticised, being called names. I have been called all kinds of names. “I have never taken any action, even when I…
Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work in fighting sexual violence in conflicts around the world. The pair won the award “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict,” Nobel committee chairwoman…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Russian President Vladimir Putin has labelled poisoned ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal a “traitor” and “scum”. In a speech he complained that the media were treating Mr Skripal as “some kind of human rights defender”, whereas he had betrayed his country. Mr Skripal and his daughter survived the Salisbury attack, which the UK…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Canada’s Parliament formally stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship on Tuesday for complicity in the atrocities committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya people. The Senate voted unanimously to strip Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader, of the symbolic honor bestowed on her in 2007. The upper house’s move follows a similar…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Iraq’s parliament on Tuesday elected as president Kurdish politician Barham Salih, who immediately named Shi’ite Adel Abdul Mahdi prime minister-designate, ending months of deadlock after an inconclusive national election in May. The presidency, traditionally occupied by a Kurd, is a largely ceremonial position, but the vote for Salih was a key step…