French president Emmanuel Macron raced Wednesday to meet a self-imposed 48-hour deadline to name a new prime minister after he hosted party bosses in a bid to hammer out a consensus and avoid a protracted political crisis...
Syrian prime minister Mohammed al-Jalali said Sunday he was ready to 鈥榗ooperate鈥� with any leadership chosen by the people, after rebels said 鈥榯yrant鈥� president Bashar al-Assad had fled the country...
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Florida on Friday for a dinner with Donald Trump at the president-elect鈥檚 Mar-a-Lago estate, as the incoming US leader promised tariffs on Canadian imports...
THE International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on November 21 for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, citing alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to the ongoing Gaza conflict. This unprecedented move by the Hague-based court has sent...
A Sunamganj court on Monday granted bail to former planning minister MA Mannan in another case filed for alleged vandalism and torching of an office of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party...
Iran鈥檚 supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that a war crimes case against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war was insufficient and that he deserved a 鈥榙eath sentence鈥�...
Ireland鈥檚 election race is set for a tight finish as frontrunner the centre-right Fine Gael led by prime minister Simon Harris has slumped in polls before Friday鈥檚 vote...
The interim government has appointed press ministers to the foreign missions in New Delhi of India and London of the United Kingdom...
IT鈥橲 official now. America鈥檚 closest ally, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one accorded more than 50 standing ovations in Congress just months ago, is under indictment by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and war crimes. America must take note: the US government is complicit in Netanyahu鈥檚 war crimes and...
IN THE first four months of his stint as UK prime minister, Keir Starmer has shown mixed results. His early tenure has already been tested by the August riots, a stark and unsettling episode triggered by the tragic murder of three young girls in Southport. The unrest has exposed underlying tensions 鈥� economic fragility, social divides, and the brittleness...
Journalist Golam Mortoza has been appointed the minister (press) in the press wing of the Bangladesh mission in Washington, the United States of America on a two-year contract...
Britain and India will resume stalled talks to agree a free-trade deal, the two countries said after their leaders met at the G20 summit in Brazil...
Hundreds of farmers, many in tractors, gathered in Wales on Saturday to protest against UK prime minister Keir Starmer and his government鈥檚 decision to change inheritance tax rules for farms...
The police have arrested former railway minister Mujibul Haque鈥檚 nephew in a case over killing eight bus passengers in a petrol bomb attack...
Indian external affairs ministry鈥檚 spokesperson said that India considered Sheikh Hasina as a former prime minister of Bangladesh.
Indian-administered Kashmir鈥檚 assembly passed a resolution on Wednesday demanding New Delhi restore the disputed Muslim-majority territory鈥檚 partial autonomy, cancelled in...
A Sicilian court on Monday dealt a fresh blow to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's migrant policy by declaring applications for asylum from Egypt could not be fast-tracked.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's most trusted and important lieutenant, Amit Shah, has been accused by Ottawa of authorising attacks on Canadian Sikh separatists on Canadian soil.聽
POWERFUL business tycoons, who had been close to the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, have swindled $17 billion off the banking sector, as the Bangladesh Bank government has said in an interview with the Financial Times, during the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League. The central banker is reported to have said that the tycoons...
THE man has a cheek.聽 Having lectured Iranians and Lebanese about what (and who) is good for them in terms of rulers and rule (we already know what he thinks of the Palestinians), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been keeping busy on further depriving access and assistance to those in Gaza and the West Bank...
The police on Thursday arrested former state minister for primary and mass education Zakir Hossain and former senior secretary of the ministry of home affairs Mustafa Kamal Uddin from...
A diplomatic falling out between India and Canada over allegations that New Delhi was behind the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist threatens to overshadow increasingly close trade and investment ties between the countries.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India Monday of making a 鈥榝undamental error,鈥� as an escalating row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil last year saw both countries expel each other's ambassadors.
The police arrested Awami League presidium member and former agriculture minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque at Eskaton in the capital on Monday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has found illegal assets worth Tk 60.55 crore amassed by former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, his wife, and two...
Indian-administered Kashmir elected on Tuesday its first government since the restive Himalayan territory was brought under New Delhi鈥檚 direct control, as voters backed opposition parties...
Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim after a bilateral meeting in Dhaka on Friday announced that they had agreed to consider issuing 18,000 work visas for those Bangladeshis who...
Indian-administered Kashmir was voting Tuesday in the third and final round of polls to elect its first government since the insurgency-wracked territory was brought under...
Japan鈥檚 next prime minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday outlined his ideas to reshape the nation鈥檚 miliary alliance with Washington, after winning the conservative ruling party鈥檚 leadership race.
Indian-administered Kashmir voted on Wednesday to elect its first government since New Delhi scrapped the Himalayan territory鈥檚 semi-autonomous status, sparking widespread protest in a region wracked by a decades-long insurgency...