The West’s greatest fear
Western attempts to destroy Syria have not been going to plan, revealing that what the West fears most is a peaceful resolution to the crisis, writes Dan Glazebrook The strategy was simple, clear, tried and tested. It had been used successfully not only against Libya, but also Kosovo (in 1999), and was rapidly underway in [...]
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday said the remarks of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over Grameen Bank are unnecessary as the government has not been working against the microfinance organisation. “Hillary’s statement on the Grameen Bank was undue. Grameen Bank is a state-owned organisation and the government has been working for its progress,” [...]
Continue reading …Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Remarks With Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni
May 7, 2012 No CommentSource: US Department of State FOREIGN MINISTER MONI: Distinguished friends, good evening. We are delighted to have with us today the U.S. Secretary of State, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton. She arrived this afternoon on an official visit. This is her first visit as the Secretary of State, but not her first visit per se. Her earlier [...]
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday urged Bangladesh’s feuding political leaders to work together and end their most recent bout of discord for the good of their impoverished country. Clinton said that weeks of strikes and protests that have paralyzed the country and killed at least five people [...]
Continue reading …By Andrew Quinn DHAKA | Sun May 6, 2012 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday warned Bangladesh’s government not to undermine pioneering microlender Grameen Bank, saying it was a key driver in the South Asian nation’s slow climb out of poverty. Clinton met with Grameen’s ousted founder – Nobel Prize-winning economics professor Mohammad Yunus [...]
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New Australian Foreign Minister Senator Bob Carr pledged his country’s support to the Bangladesh candidature for the UN Security Council for the year 2016-17. Carr made the pledge during a courtesy call on Foreign Minister Dipu Moni at Bangladesh High Commission in London on Sunday afternoon, according to a release of the Foreign Ministry. The [...]
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Newark, N.J. Newark Mayor Cory Booker and his top police official stated , City of Newark was misled by the New York Police Department. Had he known their true intention, the Newark Mayor said, he would never authorized such wholesale spying on Muslims.. Booker, a rising star in the Democratic [...]
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Dhaka University, Feb 17 (bdnews24.com)—Senior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta on Friday reacted harshly to US diplomat Robert O Blake’s comment that the major political parties should reach a consensus for credible elections. “Bangladesh is not dictated by Blakes,” the railway minister said at a programme at Dhaka University’s Teacher-Student Centre. “If Bangladesh were to [...]
Continue reading …US wants Bangladeshi leaders to resolve disputes over next elections, due in 2014
February 16, 2012 1 Comment
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A U.S. diplomat visiting Bangladesh on Thursday urged the nation’s bickering political parties to resolve how to hold the next national elections due in 2014. The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last year annulled a 15-year-old policy of having a nonpartisan caretaker run the country during an election period, and rivals [...]
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President Obama reported raising some $39.9 million in the fourth quarter, not including money he raised for the Democratic National Committee or transfers to a joint fund-raising account with the party. January 31, 2012 By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MICHAEL LUO Close to 60 corporations and wealthy individuals gave checks of $100,000 or more [...]
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Terming Russia a special friend of Bangladesh, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has said Dhaka wants to engage with Moscow more deeply than before. “…Bangladesh practices a foreign policy of `friendship towards all and malice against none’ but that Russia has been a special friend and continues to be so,” she said at a reception at [...]
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An Islamic flag atop the White House in “The Third Jihad.” Youtube January 23, 2012 By MICHAEL POWELL Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets and a doctored photograph shows an Islamic flag flying over [...]
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