Probashbangla24 online Desk : China has canceled a security meeting with US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis that had been planned for October, a senior US official said on Sunday, days after a top Chinese official said there was no reason to panic over tensions between the countries. The official, who is involved in China policy…
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US, Mexico, Canada agree on free trade pact to replace NAFTA
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Canada and the US reached a deadline deal on a new free trade pact that will include Mexico, the governments announced late Sunday, after more than a year of talks to revamp a pact President Donald Trump had labeled a disaster. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) updates and replaces the nearly 25-year-old…
James Allison, Tasuku Honjo win Nobel Prize in Medicine for cancer research
Probashbangla24 online Desk : American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to new approaches in harnessing the immune system to fight cancer, the award-giving body said on Monday. “Allison and Honjo showed how different strategies for inhibiting the brakes on the immune system can…
China manufacturing weakens amid US tariff battle
Probashbangla24 online Desk : China’s export orders shrank in September as a tariff battle with Washington over technology escalated, adding to downward pressure on the world’s No. 2 economy, two surveys showed Sunday. The reports add to signs Chinese trade, which had held up despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff hikes, might be weakening. That adds…
Brett Kavanaugh: FBI contacts Deborah Ramirez for interview
Probashbangla24 online Desk : The FBI has approached the second woman to accuse US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct as it begins a fresh inquiry into him. Deborah Ramirez accuses Judge Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her during a drinking game when they were students at Yale University in the 1980s. He has…
‘We fell in love:’ Trump swoons over letters from North Korea’s Kim
Probashbangla24 online Desk :US President Donald Trump took his enthusiasm for his detente with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to new heights on Saturday, declaring at a rally with supporters that “we fell in love” after exchanging letters. Trump and Kim have said they want to work toward denuclearizing the Korean peninsula, holding an…
US urges govt to reform Digital Security Act
Probashbangla24 Desk : The United States has encouraged the government of Bangladesh to reform the recently passed Digital Security Act (DSA), saying it has provisions to hamper free speech. UN ambassador to Bangladesh, Marcia Bernicat made a statement on Sunday to urge the government to make changes in the law which would bring it into conformity…