Dhaka February 24, 2025, 7:07 am
Bill and Melinda Gates aren't backing down from honoring India Prime Minister Narendra Modi despite concerns about human rights abuses in the disputed Kashmir region
Iran signed a $440 million contract on Saturday with local company Petropars to develop the Belal gas field in the Gulf, Iranian state television reported, saying the country's vital energy sector was active despite US sancti
Farooq Abdullah, 81, who also was the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested at his residence in Srinagar, the summer capital of the disputed Himalayan region.
The UK is not prepared to postpone Brexit beyond the current 31 October deadline
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday blamed Iran for the attacks on two Aramco oil plants in the east of Saudi Arabia.
David Cameron said in an interview published Saturday that he thinks about the consequences of the Brexit referendum "every single day" and worries "desperately" about what will happen next.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged all governments to respect the right to active, substantive and meaningful participation.
Mintimer Shaimiev, State Counsellor of the Republic of Tatarstan, accompanied His Highness the Aga Khan, hereditary Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims, in presiding over the award ceremony.
"The bulb that we're being forced to use, number one, to me, most importantly, I always look orange," he said, to laughs from the audience.
“The climate crisis…will result in the collapse of some economies if decisive action is not taken now,” UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi stressed on Wednesday.
Trump insisted that he had a good relationship with Bolton, but also said, "He wasn't getting along with people in the administration that I consider very important."
The bill in question failed to pass in 2013 and many Republicans continue to oppose the idea as an infringement on gun rights. The senators said they hoped to hear back from the White House Thursday.
Netanyahu said on Tuesday he planned to annex the Jordan Valley, a large swathe of the occupied West Bank, if he wins a closely contested election just a week away.
He emphasised public-private partnership to tackle cyber issues.
The Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking, which is operated jointly by SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders, sent its own boats to pick up a pregnant woman close to full term, 12 minors and 37 men, all from sub-Saharan Afri
Some of the workers building the camp said they were not on a citizenship list Assam released last week as part of a drive to detect illegal immigrants. That means the workers could themselves end up in detention.
More than 80,000 fires have broken out in the Amazon rainforest this year.
"Sooner or later, the excessive use, by the United States of America, of the dollar as a force - they do it with China, they do it with Russia, and they do it with us - will lead to its demise.
Myanmar authorities are forcing members of the Rohingya Muslim minority at gunpoint to accept identity cards that categorise them as foreigners, stripping them of the chance to become citizens, a rights group said on Tuesday.
The need for exchanging of intelligence for combating terrorism was also discussed, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here.
