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Oct 12: British billionaire Richard Branson has frozen business links with Saudi Arabia amid reports that journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have been murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Branson says that if the reports are true, it would "clearly change the ability of any of us in the West to do business with the Saudi government." Branson, founder of Virgin Group, says he will suspend his

Washington, Oct 12: The US President, Donald Trump has announced the investigation of Jamal Khashoggi who vanished at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. According to the report published in The Guardian,Trump said,“We’re being very tough. And we have investigators over there and we’re working with Turkey, and frankly we’re working with Saudi Arabia. We want to find out what happened,” When It was

Moscow, Oct 11: The two-man U.S.-Russian crew of a Soyuz spacecraft taking them to the orbiting International Space Station had to make a dramatic emergency landing in Kazakhstan on Thursday when a rocket failed in mid-air. U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin landed safely without harm and rescue crews who raced to locate them on the Kazakh steppe quickly linked up with

Washington, Oct 11: Describing Indian-American Nikki Haley as an "extraordinary person", President Donald Trump has said the outgoing US ambassador to the UN is "going to make a lot of money" in the private sector, which she intends to join. Haley, 46, the first Indian-American to hold a Cabinet-ranking position in any US presidential administration, tendered her resignation Tuesday, which Trump

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