October2018
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Sir Fazle Calls for stepping up funding and innovations to tackle TB at UNGA high level meeting
Oct 2, 2018The international community must increase investments in the invention and application of new tools and treatments, such as vaccines, diagnostics and drugs to successfully fight tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest communicable disease. BRAC chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan... -
Catalan separatists’ divisions erupt on referendum anniversary
Oct 2, 2018A year after a banned referendum on secession from Spain, tens of thousands of Catalan protesters piled pressure on the region’s separatist government Monday during an anniversary marked by road and railway line blockades and late-night... -
No injunction for Beyoncé over ‘Feyoncé’ knockoffs
Oct 2, 2018A federal judge rejected Beyoncé’s request for a permanent injunction to stop a Texas company catering to people engaged to be married from selling dozens of shirts, tank tops, hoodies and other items bearing the name... -
Rapper Cardi B charged in connection with assault in New York
Oct 2, 2018Rapper Cardi B surrendered to New York City police on Monday and was charged with assault and reckless endangerment after a complaint claimed she was involved in a fight at a strip club in August. Cardi... -
UN expert warns of ‘climate of fear’ in Cambodia
Oct 2, 2018A UN expert on the rights situation in Cambodia decried Thursday that laws were being used to rein in dissent and were creating a “climate of fear” in the country. UN Special Rapporteur for Cambodia Rhona... -
Eco-fashion becomes catwalk reality
Oct 2, 2018It may have been a long time coming, but eco-fashion is no longer a hippie pipe dream. Biker jackets made from pineapple leaves and leather tanned with olive extract rather than hugely polluting chemicals are now... -
Australia for accountability for international crimes against Rohingya
Oct 2, 2018Australia has supported a resolution to pursue accountability for serious international crimes committed against Rohingyas in Rakhine state of Myanamr last year. During the 39th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva... -
China cancels security talks with United States
Oct 1, 2018China has canceled a security meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis that had been planned for October, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday, days after a top Chinese official said there was no... -
Three years of Russia strikes on Syria kill 18,000
Oct 1, 2018More than 18,000 people, nearly half of them civilians, have been killed in Russian air strikes on Syria since Moscow began its game-changing intervention exactly three years ago, a monitor said Sunday. Russia, for its part,... -
Two dead after typhoon batters Japan
Oct 1, 2018Two people have been killed in a powerful typhoon that battered Japan over the weekend, officials said Monday, as the storm’s aftermath brought travel chaos to Tokyo’s morning commute. By Monday morning, Typhoon Trami had cleared...
