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Beijing, OCT 11: Chinese authorities have launched a campaign against halal products in the name of fighting extremism in the capital of Xinjiang, the fractious northwest region where Muslims are facing a raft of religious restrictions. Beijing has in recent years launched a security crackdown in Xinjiang against what it calls separatist elements, and a UN report has cited estimates that up to one

Dhaka, Oct 10: A Bangladeshi court on Wednesday sentenced 19 people to death and awarded life imprisonment to 19, including former Premier Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Rahman in the case of the grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka on August 21, 2004 that killed 24 people and injured 500, including then Opposition leader and present Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Ms. Hasina survived the

Cox's Bazar, Oct 10: With her eyes welling up while narrating her family’s ordeal in Rakhine State in the neighbouring Myanmar, Jamila says the conditions will not be conducive and peaceful for the return of Rohinga refugees to Myanmar. Speaking before a group of visiting journalists from a number of countries at this refugee camp, Jamila recounted that her husband Abdul Aziz and her teenaged son

Washington D.C, Oct 9: United States (US) President Donald Trump on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Nikki Haley as United Nations (UN) ambassador. The reason behind Haley's resignation is still unclear, reported Fox News. Trump is also expected to speak and clear the air about this decision at the Oval officeon early Tuesday morning. "Big announcement with my friend Ambassador Nikki Haleyin

Hong Kong, Oct 9: Pakistan's latest announcement about Saudi Arabia's investment in an oil refinery at the port city of Gwadar has set alarm bells ringing in the international arena. A Zerohedge article claims that Pakistan's move comes from a "desperate" need for funding to ward off a financial crisis stoked by growing debt to China. The column, written by James Dorsey on Mid East Soccer blog

Washington, Oct 9: President Donald Trump prepared a triumphant swearing-in ceremony for his new conservative Supreme Court justice Monday and called sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh a "hoax." Following arguably the biggest - and hardest-fought - victory of his controversy-strewn presidency, Trump was crowing. Kavanaugh's Saturday confirmation in one of the closest such Senate

Ankara, Oct 9: After Jamal Khashoggi went missing in Saudi consulate, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday challenged Saudi Arabia to proof that a missing journalist has left its consulate in Istanbul. "Consulate officials cannot save themselves by saying that he left the building," Mr Erdogan told a news conference on Monday. "If he left, you have to prove it with footage", he added

Beijing, Oct 9: China will sell 48 high-end military drones to its "all-weather ally" Pakistan in what a military observer said will be the largest deal of its kind between the two countries, official media in Beijing reported today. The cost of the deal was not revealed. Wing Loong II, a high-end reconnaissance, strike and multi-role endurance unmanned aircraft system, is manufactured by Chengdu

Stockholm, Oct 8: The 2018 Nobel season, marked by the lack of a literature award for the first time in 70 years, winds up Monday with the economics prize which experts say could go to research on the climate or development. The Nobel economics prize was created by the Swedish central bank "in memory of Alfred Nobel" and first awarded in 1969, unlike the other prizes which were created in his last

Jakarta, Oct 7: When up to six-metre (20-foot) tsunami waves crashed into the Indonesian city of Palu last month, Didiek Wahyudi Kurniawan's house near the beach was quickly engulfed with water, leaving his wife and two daughters barely any time to escape. "I know there is supposed to be a tsunami warning alarm, but maybe it was outdated? I have no idea. We never get any warning from it," said