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News Desk  Islamabad: Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first female prime minister and one of the most influential and polarising figures in the country’s political history, passed away on Tuesday after a prolonged illness.  Khaleda Zia was…

News Desk  Seoul: The United States has approved annual licences allowing Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to ship chipmaking equipment to their manufacturing facilities in China through 2026, sources familiar with the matter said on…

AFP/APP New York: New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to become the city’s first Muslim mayor as he assumes office on Thursday for a four-year term, with high expectations riding on his youthful and Democratic Socialist agenda.…

AFP/APP Taipei: A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan's northeastern coast on Saturday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. Taiwan's weather service, which put the…

AFP/APP New York: US air travel was thrown into chaos on Friday as airlines cancelled around 1,500 flights during the peak holiday travel period, with severe winter stormwarnings and heavy snow forecast across parts of the Midwest and…

AFP/APP Kyiv, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet US President Donald Trump in Florida this weekend, but Russia on Friday accused him and his European backers of seeking to “torpedo” a US-brokered plan to end…

AFP/APP Los Angeles: Torrential rains triggered flash floods and debris-flow warnings across Southern California’s fire-scarred regions as a series of Christmas storms battered the state, with heavy downpours and strong winds forecast to…

AFP Tegucigalpa: Nasry Asfura, a conservative businessman backed by US President Donald Trump, was declared winner of the Honduranpresidential vote on Wednesday, weeks after a razor-thin election marred by delays and allegations of…

AFP/APP Bethlehem: Scouts marched under a clear blue sky in Bethlehem on Wednesday as the Palestinian city emerged from the shadow of the war in Gaza to celebrate its first festive Christmas in more than two years. Throughout the Gaza…

AFP/APP Los Angeles: A major winter storm rolled into California Tuesday, forcing hundreds of evacuations in burn areas while threatening flooding and travel delays through Christmas for much of the state, officials said.  A "strong…