Trump hails ‘Great President’ Al-Sisi during White House meeting

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1115675386409517057 WAHNIGTON, April 10 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) – President Donald Trump of the United States has described his Eygyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi as a ‘great president … doing a great job” in the north African country. The two leaders met at the White House on Tuesday during an official visit by…

Bangladesh deploys border guards to island near Myanmar

Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) paramilitary personnel carrying assault rifles disembark as they have been deployed on Saint Martin’s island, a small island in the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf, on April 8, 2019.  Photo courtesy of Mizzima YANGON, April 9 (NNN-MIZZIMA) – Bangladesh deployed heavily-armed border guards to an island…

Five Bangladeshi workers killed in Malaysia road crash

DHAKA, April 9 (NNN-BSS) – Five Bangladeshi expatriate workers were killed in a fatal road accident in Malaysia today as a bus carrying 44 workers skidded from the road and crashed into a 10-metre deep drain near the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Apart from Bangladeshi nationals, another nine foreign workers…

US judge blocks Trump policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico

LOS ANGELES, April 9 (NNN-BSS) – A US federal judge on Monday blocked President Donald Trump’s policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico to wait out the processing of their cases, saying the Department of Homeland Security had overstepped its authority. The ruling by US District Judge Richard Seeborg in…