Shawn W. Crispin – Senior Southeast Asia Representative Newly installed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has sent mixed messages on his commitment to upholding press freedom and combating impunity in media murders, a mix of hope and fear that has broadly…
Dhaka – A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Baghadanga border in Maheshpur upazila of Jhenidah district early Friday.
Bangladesh and India today launched a massive campaign to salvage a wild elephant stranded in marshy lands for the past five weeks after gushing flood waters washed it to Bangladesh from upstream Indian Territory in Assam, officials said.“A three member…
Militants have attacked a convoy of foreign tourists in west Afghanistan, injuring six and their Afghan driver.The group of a dozen travellers was being escorted by Afghan army personnel to Herat city when it was ambushed, Afghan officials told the…
Geneva (Kanaga Raja) – The United States on 29 August last seemed to be at a moment where it is struggling to live up to its ideals on the often intertwined critical issues of racial, social and economic inequality, a…
A woman has died and five other people were injured in a knife attack in Russell Square, central London. Police were called at 22:33 BST on Wednesday to reports of a man injuring people with a knife.
President Barack Obama has said Republican nominee Donald Trump is unfit to be president, and questioned why his party still supports the New York billionaire’s candidacy.There has to come a point at which you say: ‘Enough’,” Mr Obama said.Mr Trump…
Nepal’s parliament has elected former communist rebel leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal as the country’s new prime minister.The parliament’s speaker, Onsari Gharti Magar, announced Dahal received a majority of MP votes on Wednesday.Minister Khadga Prasad Oli stepped down last week ahead…
North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile which travelled 1,000km (620 miles) before landing in Japanese waters, the South and Japan say. The missile was launched off the North’s east coast early on Wednesday. The North is barred from developing nuclear…
Washington (AP/UNB) — In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama slammed Donald Trump as “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve in the White House on Tuesday. He challenged Republican lawmakers to drop their support for their party’s nominee, declaring “There…
Dhaka – West Bengal may soon be known as Bengal in English and Bangla or Banga in Bengali. After decades of deliberation, the first concrete step of renaming the state was taken on Tuesday, with the state cabinet adopting a…
A U.S. electronics technician with the Federal Bureau of Investigation has pleaded guilty to acting as an agent of the Chinese government.Kun Shan Chun, who was born in China and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, admitted in federal court Monday…
Columbus, Ohio (CNN)Donald Trump on Monday took his complaints about the “rigged” political system one step further. “I’m afraid the election’s going to be rigged. I have to be honest,” Trump told voters in Ohio, a crucial swing state.
Dhaka – The planned visit of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) President Shinichi Kitaoka to Bangladesh has been “postponed” as Japan wants to take more time to see “convincingly improvement” in security environment, UNB news agency reported.
Republican candidate Donald Trump has called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton “the devil”, in the face of continuing fire from within his own party. Speaking at a rally in a high school gym in Pennsylvania, Mr Trump attacked Bernie Sanders for…
A group of soldiers suspected of trying to seize the president during Turkey’s failed coup attempt two weeks ago have been captured near Marmaris.Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on holiday at the south-western resort on the night of the coup, but…
A Russian transport helicopter was shot down in opposition rebel territory in northern Syria on Monday and all five crew and officers onboard were killed, the Kremlin said, in the deadliest single incident for the Russian military since its involvement…
The American public could be treated to a major U.S.-led military victory in Iraq this fall, just as voters are deciding who will be the nation’s next president—but U.S. military officials insist the timing of the operation has nothing to…
Senior current and former officials in Ukraine were outraged with US presidential candidate Donald Trump, who called their country “a mess” and said the people of Crimea would rather be with Russia than with Ukraine. In an interview broadcast Sunday…
Ashland (AP/UNB) — Hillary Clinton said Sunday that Donald Trump repaid the “ultimate sacrifice” of a U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq with insults and degrading comments about Muslims, as the soldier’s bereaved father pressured Republican Party leaders to distance…
Turkish media are in a state of shock this weekend after the government arrested 17 journalists in recent days on terror charges and issued arrest warrants for dozens more, in what a press freedom group has warned is a “sweeping…
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has attracted outrage by mocking a dead US Muslim soldier’s mother. Khizr Khan — whose son died in Iraq — accused the Republican presidential nominee of vilifying US Muslims in a steely rebuke that electrified…
Dhaka – Bangladesh has ranked eighth among 140 countries in the globe included in the Happy Planet Index 2016. The ranking recently released by the New Economics Foundation, a British think-tank, named Bangladesh as the eighth greenest and happiest country…
Some 7,000 armed police in heavy vehicles surrounded the Incirlik air base used by NATO forces in Adana in what a Turkish minister called a “security check.” With no official explanation, speculations have arisen about a new coup attempt or…
Hedge fund owners and employees have so far this election cycle contributed nearly $48.5 million for Hillary Clinton, compared to about $19,000 for Donald Trump, an indication that Wall Street is clearly backing the Democratic presidential nominee.
Officials say a roadside bomb has exploded near a vehicle carrying paramilitary rangers in southern Pakistan, killing a security official and wounding three officers and five civilians.
US watchdog says area under Kabul government’s “influence” shrank by nearly 5 percent since beginning of this year. The Afghan government has lost control of nearly 5 percent of its territory to the Taliban since the beginning of this year,…
A Syrian maternity hospital in a rebel-held area of Idlib province has been extensively damaged after a direct hit, according to the international charity Save the Children, which supports the facility.
The United States is yet to confirm the citizenship of Shehzad Rouf Arka who was killed in a recent drive in militants den in city though the Washington Post reported he was a US citizen.
Thinking of giving a little summit to your neighbor for a 100th birthday present? What about a mountain?Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said this week her government was considering a proposal to move the country’s border 40 meters (about 130…