International

AFP/APP Washington: Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in the United States on Saturday for a landmark official visit, his country's state news agency reported, a day after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist.…

News Desk  Dhaka: Bangladesh’s cricket fraternity has been jolted by explosive allegations of sexual harassment made by national women’s team pacer Jahanara Alam, prompting swift action from the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and an…

AFP/APP New York: James Watson — the Nobel laureate co-credited with discovering DNA’s double-helix structure, whose later years were marred by racist remarks — has died at the age of 97. The eminent American biologist passed away on…

AFP/APP Istanbul: Turkey announced on Friday that it had issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several senior officials in his government on charges of genocide over the ongoing war in Gaza. The move…

AFP/APP Belém: Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday said the Earth can no longer sustain humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels, warning that without confronting this reality, the battle against climate change will be…

AFP/APP Vietnam: Typhoon Kalmaegi churned across Vietnam early Friday, claiming five more lives after its devastating passage through the Philippines, where the death toll rose to 188. Kalmaegi unleashed record rains and flooding in…

AFP/APP Washington: President Donald Trump said Thursday he expects a US-coordinated international stabilization force to be on the ground in Gaza “very soon,” following two years of war in the territory between Israel and Hamas. The…

AFP/APP Vietnam: Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall Thursday in Vietnam's already storm-battered central belt, where thousands have been evacuated from areas in the path of one of the world’s deadliest cyclones this year. Kalmaegi cut a…

AFP/APP Geneva: An alarming streak of exceptional temperatures has put 2025 on course to be among the hottest years ever recorded, the United Nations said Thursday, insisting though that the trend could still be reversed. While this…

Ishtiaq Ahmed  Bradford: American voters have given a clear thumb-down to Donald Trump’s leadership. The off-year elections, held in years without a presidential race, are often seen as an early litmus test of public sentiment toward the…