Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni congratulated Sheikh Hasina for her reelection as Bangladesh Prime Minister following the 10th parliamentary elections.
Ukraine’s first post-independence president has warned the country is on the “brink of civil war”.
Stem cell researchers are heralding a “major scientific discovery”, with the potential to start a new age of personalised medicine.
Ex-Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic has refused to testify after former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic called him as a defence witness at his war crimes trial at The Hague.
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has accepted the resignation of the prime minister and his cabinet amid continuing anti-government protests.
New York –The Bangladeshi government should authorise an independent investigation into a recent spate of alleged extrajudicial killings by security forces, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should publicly order law enforcement agencies to ensure the safety of all…
Archaeologist Jesse Casana couldn’t have foreseen the violence that would break out in Syria less than a year after he left his dig site in summer 2010. “No one knew whether it was going to blow over quickly,” Casana said.…
Dhaka – Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Wangchuck has congratulated Sheikh Hasina on her reelection as Prime Minister of Bangladesh in the 10th parliamentary elections.
Japan has reported a record annual trade deficit after the weak yen pushed up the cost of energy imports.
Scientists have shed light on what ancient Europeans looked like.
The Election Commission will not interfere in the ongoing joint forces’ drive against violence at different parts of the country unless it does not hamper the works of the countrywide staggered upazila polls, beginning on February 19.
Protesters in Thailand have surrounded polling stations, blocking early voting ahead of next week’s general election, officials say.
Ukrainian opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk says protests will continue after he rejected President Viktor Yanukovych’s offer to appoint him as prime minister of the country.
Berlin — One black-and white photo shows Heinrich Himmler on an idyllic family outing, holding his wife’s hand while his blond, pigtailed daughter is picking flowers. Others show the SS Nazi leader feeding a little fawn or taking a bath…
The French presidency has contradicted media reports that President Francois Hollande would officially announce his separation from his partner, Valerie Trierweiler, on Saturday.
Four people have been killed in clashes in Egypt as the country marks the anniversary of the 2011 uprising which ended with the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.
Considering its growing importance, Bangladesh wants to focus more on its close neighbour Myanmar to have improved ties with it in the spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation paving a ground for boosting trade and commerce. Bangladesh first wants to…
The Indian High Commission in Dhaka will celebrate the ‘Republic Day’ in the city on Sunday. The celebrations will be held at the New Chancery Complex in Baridhara, said a media release issued by the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.
Dhaka – Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Li Jun on Friday laid emphasis on more future collaboration between the two friendly countries — Bangladesh and China — for ensuring mutual gains. The Chinese diplomat thinks mutual cooperation brings gains while division brings…
The Syrian government delegation has threatened to quit peace talks in Geneva if “serious” discussions do not begin by Saturday.
Five people have been killed and about 90 wounded after three blasts in the Egyptian capital that appeared to target the police force.
Ukrainian opposition leaders are due to meet President Viktor Yanukovych, a day after the first deaths in protests that have gripped Kiev for two months.
Elections to 117 Upazilas in 52 districts will be held in the second phase on Feb 27.
Police in India’s West Bengal state have arrested 13 men in connection with a gang rape of a woman, allegedly on orders of village elders who objected to her relationship with a man.
Families of two men recently killed in a gunfight with the police in Chittagong have demanded a judicial probe into the incident.
More than 30 Rohingya Muslims were killed in attacks by Buddhists last week in Burma’s Rakhine state, the BBC has been told.
CARACAS, Venezuela— President Nicolas Maduro has a new villain as he campaigns to bring down Venezuela’s spiraling crime: TV soap operas.
Syria’s government and main political opposition have traded bitter accusations as a major peace conference begins in Switzerland.
Russian police in Sochi are hunting for a woman they fear may be planning to carry out a suicide bomb attack.
Reporters Without Borders Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Reporters Without Borders is concerned about all the sanctions taken against the pro-Islamist newspaper Dainik Inqilab. In the space of…