February2018
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Bollywood Legend Sridevi Kapoor passes away
Feb 25, 2018Bollywood legend and an actor par excellence, Sridevi Kapoor is no more. The actress passed away after a massive cardiac arrest in Dubai while she was attending a family wedding with husband Boney Kapoor and her... -
BRAC Uganda, Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan support One Billion Rising
Feb 25, 2018One in three women worldwide have been beaten or raped during their lifetime, according to a publication by the World Health Organisation. With a world population of 7 billion, that is more than one billion women... -
Badminton’s Srikanth predicts golden era for Indian stars
Feb 25, 2018Indian badminton is entering a golden era with an army of new stars aiming for Commonwealth Games and Asian Games success this year, the country’s top-ranked star Kidambi Srikanth has warned rivals. With Srikanth ranked three... -
Ed Sheeran searches for new lines in movie ‘Songwriter’
Feb 25, 2018British singer Ed Sheeran said on Friday that the hardest part of songwriting was coming up with lines that had never been written before as a new documentary detailing his creative process premiered at Berlin’s international... -
Arsenal stand in way of Pep’s first Man City silverware
Feb 24, 2018Pep Guardiola is anxious to play down suggestions that winning his first piece of silverware for Manchester City in Sunday’s League Cup final against Arsenal would herald a period of dominance. The former Barcelona and Bayern... -
Merkel’s Bavarian allies warn SPD to stick to deal on migrants
Feb 24, 2018Top officials in the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives on Saturday warned the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) that failure to stick to agreements on migrants could cause the collapse of the potential new... -
U.N. Security Council delays vote on Syria ceasefire resolution
Feb 24, 2018The U.N. Security Council on Friday delayed a vote on a demand for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria, where pro-government warplanes have been pounding the last rebel bastion near Damascus in one of the deadliest bombing... -
U.S. ready to open Jerusalem embassy in May
Feb 24, 2018The United States said on Friday it will open its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem in May, a move from Tel Aviv that reverses decades of U.S. policy and is bound to trouble U.S. allies who... -
U.S. imposes more North Korea sanctions, Trump warns of ‘phase two’
Feb 24, 2018The United States said on Friday it was imposing its largest package of sanctions to pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear missile program, and President Donald Trump warned of a “phase two” that could... -
Manafort ‘paid European ex-politicians’
Feb 24, 2018Ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort secretly paid unnamed former senior European politicians to lobby for Ukraine’s previous pro-Russia government, a new indictment filed by special counsel Robert Mueller says. Mr Manafort paid over €2m ($2.5m; £1.8m)...
