June 13,2021 AFP: Pilgrims from Bangladesh and other countries will not be able to perform the annual Hajj for the second conservative year as the Saudi Arabian authorities have barred all overseas pilgrims due to the Covid pandemic. The Saudi authorities said that they would allow 60,000 vaccinated residents of […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes: RICHMOND — Michael Paul Williams of Virginia’s Richmond Times-Dispatch won this year’s prize for commentary for a series of “penetrating and historically insightful columns” about the process of dismantling the state capital city’s Confederate monuments. Williams’ winning work was […]

Jenna Romaine writes: Western states on verge of worst drought in modern history. Over the last 20 years, the two worst droughts occurred in 2003 and 2013. A permanent drought is characterized by an unchanging dry climate, sparse vegetation and increased risk of wildfires. Recent years have seen expansive droughts […]

Erika Edwards Writes: The condition, called myocarditis, is usually mild, but a handful of patients remain hospitalized. A higher-than-usual number of cases of a type of heart inflammation has been reported following Covid-19 vaccination, especially among young men following their second dose of an mRNA vaccine, the Centers for Disease […]

Since his ban and President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump has posted statements online far less often. But some of his statements have traveled just as far and wide on social networks. Written by Davey Alba, Ella Koeze and Jacob Silver When Facebook and Twitter barred Donald Trump from their platforms […]

UNB: Bangladesh government on Wednesday approved a proposal of the Health Service Division to import Sinofarm Covid-19 vaccine. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the proposal. Shahida Aktar, additional secretary to the Cabinet Division, disclosed this while briefing reporters after a meeting of the committee. She, however, did not […]

Eminent film director Buddhadeb Dasgupta died at his residence in Kolkata early Thursday, 10 June, due to old-age related ailments, family members said, reported the Hindu. He was 77. Dasgupta is survived by his wife and two daughters from his previous marriage. The national award-winning director was having kidney ailments […]

AFP: Sri Lanka began injecting pregnant women with a Chinese coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday and Nepal resumed inoculations with a China-made jab as India’s neighbours turn to Beijing and Moscow for help with supplies. Nepal halted inoculations at the end of May after its stock of AstraZeneca shots and Chinese […]

By NICOLE PERLROTH, KATIE BENNER and Erin Griffith When Bitcoin burst onto the scene in 2009, fans heralded the cryptocurrency as a secure, decentralized and anonymous way to conduct transactions outside the traditional financial system. Criminals, often operating in hidden reaches of the internet, flocked to Bitcoin to do illicit […]

JOSEPH CHOI writes: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday called the deaths of four members of a Muslim family in London, Ontario a “terrorist attack,” and vowed to take action against far-right groups. “What happened on Sunday in London, this act of terrorism and Islamophobia is sickening. It is […]