Sweden’s Supreme Court said on Monday it rejected an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to revoke a detention order over allegations of sexual assault.The 43-year-old Australian has been stuck inside Ecuador’s London embassy since June 2012 to avoid a…
By Katie Engelhart The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has located a new cache of colonial-era government documents, VICE News has learned. The documents, some with “Top Secret” classifications and tantalizing subject titles, originate in the Colonial Office — the…
Nearly 600 people believed to be Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have been rescued from boats drifting in Indonesian waters. At least two overcrowded boats – with many women and children on board – were towed by local fishermen…
Ambassador of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Bangladesh Pierre Mayaudon on Sunday underscored the neee for joint efforts in countering violent extremism combating climate change through a concerted preparation of the Paris conference COP21, offering safer ways to migration…
South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has elected its first black leader, a move the party hopes will widen its appeal. Mmusi Maimane, 34, was clear favourite to succeed outgoing leader Helen Zille. Mr Maimane became party…
Iranian-allied Houthi fighters in Yemen accepted on Sunday a five-day humanitarian ceasefire proposed by their adversary Saudi Arabia but said they would respond to any violations.Neighboring Saudi Arabia had said on Friday that the ceasefire could begin on Tuesday if…
Associated Press North Korea said Saturday that it successfully test-fired a newly developed ballistic missile from a submarine in what would be the latest display of the country’s advancing military capabilities. Hours after the announcement, South Korean officials said the…
Thousands of Russian troops marched across Red Square, tanks rumbled through the streets and jets screamed overhead on Saturday in a huge military parade marking the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. Western leaders boycotted the parade over Russia’s…
Russia has staged its biggest military parade, marking 70 years since victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. Thousands of troops marched across Red Square in Moscow, and new armour was displayed for the first time. Many foreign dignitaries…
Prime Minister David Cameron won a stunning election victory in Britain, overturning poll predictions that the vote would be the closest in decades to sweep easily into office for another five years, with his Labour opponents in tatters.
By Natalie Alcoba and Alex MacPherson Omar Khadr emerged from his new home in Edmonton, Alberta with a cautious smile on Thursday, and asked Canadians to give him a chance. Hours removed from hearing a judge tell him he is…
David Cameron has returned to Downing Street with the Tories having defied polls and won the general election. The Conservatives made gains in England and Wales and are forecast by the BBC to secure 331 seats in the Commons, giving…
By Jason Leopold For years, the maxim of Radio GTMO, the official radio station of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, has been, “Rockin’ in Fidel’s Backyard.” The subtle dig is aimed at Fidel Castro, the former President of Cuba who…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina extended her heartiest greetings to her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for the passage of the historic Land Boundary Agreement between Bangladesh and India by Lok Sabha on Thursday. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina extended her sincere greetings…
Britons went to vote on Thursday in the tightest election for decades; one that could cause government gridlock, push the world’s fifth-largest economy closer to leaving the European Union and stoke a second attempt by Scotland to break away.Final opinion…
Millions of people have begun casting their votes in the United Kingdom general election. Polls opened at 07:00 BST at around 50,000 polling stations across the UK, which will remain open until 22:00. A total of 650 Westminster MPs will…
Indian Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament, on Wednesday passed the much-awaited Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh, and the exchange of certain enclaves of land between the two countries. The Bill was passed with an unanimity, with 180…
Campaigning in Britain’s most unpredictable election in a generation enters its final day on Wednesday with the two main parties level in most polls and neither on track to command a majority in the parliament of the world’s fifth largest…
The European Union is organising the celebration of Climate Diplomacy Day on 16th June in Bangladesh. This grand event aims to generate momentum towards the global Climate change deal in December in Paris. This photography contest will make a visual…
By Jonathan Gad Ten days of mock combat operations throughout the Philippines came to an end last week as Exercise Balikatan 15 (BK15) wrapped up. The Balikatan (which in the Filipino language Tagalog means “shoulder-to-shoulder”) exercises have been a staple…
Migrants arriving on the Italian island of Sicily on Tuesday said around forty others travelling with them had died on the journey, a Save the Children spokeswoman said.
Langtang the most beautiful village at the foot of the Himalaya and used by trekkers on their way to climbing Mount Everest has been completely wiped out in an avalanche of earth and snow triggered by the April 25 earthquake,…
By Jason Leopold “Classification of information is designed to protect the national security of the United States, not to be used as a shield to protect the government from embarrassment.” So wrote US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in a September 25,…
Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan said on Monday there is no evidence that indicates the existence of Al- Qaeda in the country. “Members of the law-enforcement agencies are yet to get any concrete information regarding Al-Qaeda’s existence and its…
Nepali police and local volunteers found the bodies of about 100 trekkers and villagers buried in an avalanche set off by last month’s devastating earthquake and were digging through snow and ice for signs of dozens more missing, officials said…
Two gunmen have been shot dead after they opened fire outside a conference on cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a suburb of Dallas, US police say. A security guard was also injured. Police sealed off the Curtis Culwell Center…
The NGO Federation of Nepal at a meeting in Kathmandu has urged their government to face the challenge of coordination of the post quake rescue and relief operations for achieving maximum effectiveness to relieve the sufferings of the quake-stricken people.…
A group of nearly 300 women and girls, which the Nigerian army says were freed from Boko Haram militants earlier this week have been taken to a refugee camp in north-eastern Nigeria. They had travelled for three days from the…
Baltimore’s chief prosecutor charged one police officer with murder on Friday and five others with lesser crimes in the death of a young black man who suffered a critical neck injury in the back of a police van, a case…
Hasina Ahmed, wife of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed yesterday again urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to interfere to find out her husband–went disappeared on March 11 from a residence at city’s Uttara. Hasina Ahmed made the appeaifel, 53 days off…