Bangladesh’s tribunal sentences Awami League leader to death
Dhaka, Oct 29: A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Thursday sentenced Awami League's Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif to death for the killing...
Netanyahu steps up election fraud claims, rules out cooperation with Arab parties
Tel Aviv, Oct 29: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday intensified allegations of election fraud by Arab-led parties, describing suspected foreign interference as...
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will resign Feb 7, ahead of term
Frankfurt, Oct 29: European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will resign Feb 7, nine months ahead of the end of her 8-year term, the...
Change is in air; last best chance to rein in non-serious Trump: Obama
Washington, Oct 29: Barack Obama reprised his nearly two-decade-old message of hope and change to urge voters in the US to seize their last...
68 dead as high-speed trains collide in Spain
Urda, Oct 28: One high-speed Spanish train slammed into another that had stopped on the tracks Wednesday, killing at least 68 people and shredding...
King Charles III can’t escape Britain’s role in slavery as he tours the Caribbean
London, Oct 28: For Britain's royal family, slavery is the issue that won't go away.
As King Charles III tours the Bahamas, Guyana and Antigua...
Localised Russia-Ukraine ceasefire starts in deal brokered by Melania Trump
Mykolaiv (Ukraine), Oct 27: A localised ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect early Tuesday ahead of a humanitarian mission led by US first...
Israel records highest voter turnout by 10 am since 1981
Jerusalem, Oct 27: Voter turnout in Israel's parliamentary elections stood at 16.68 per cent by 10 am on Tuesday, the highest level recorded at...
New UNSC permanent members without veto would be ‘second-class’: India
United Nations, Oct 27: India has asserted that any reform of the UN Security Council that creates a new category of permanent members without...
Jordan attacks militants in Syria tied to last week’s church attack, state media says
Amman, Oct 27: The Jordanian air force carried out strikes against groups in Syria in retaliation for Friday's attack on a Greek Orthodox Church...
Japan’s former PM Takeo Fukuda dies at 90
Tokyo, Oct 26: Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who led the country for just one year and spent years afterward trying to build...
Pak Army chief, top officials from Makkah pact countries to meet Iranian security czar in Tehran
Islamabad, Oct 26: Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir, Saudi Arabia's defence minister and Turkish intelligence chief are expected to jointly meet top Iranian officials...
