Wednesday | January 21, 2026 | Dhaka
Agency : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday slammed the international community for turning a blind eye to widespread starvation in the Gaza Strip, calling it a “moral crisis that challenges the global conscience.”...
Tanvir Ahammed : Humanity stands at a crossroads. For the first time in our history, the greatest threat we face is not an invading army or a global pandemic-but our own actions. Climate change...
Kathmandu Post: A Kathmandu court has ordered Dhaka-based US-Bangla Airlines to pay $2.74 million (Rs 378.60 million) in compensation to the families of 17 Nepali victims of the March 12, 2018, Flight 211 crash...
Reuters: Fighting on the Thai-Cambodian border extended into a third day and new flashpoints emerged on Saturday as both sides sought diplomatic support, saying they had acted in self-defence and calling on the other...
AFP : Aid groups warned of surging numbers of malnourished children in war-ravaged Gaza as a trio of European powers prepared to hold an “emergency call” Friday on the deepening humanitarian crisis. Doctors Without...
AFP : Hundreds of Iraqis protested Friday against severe water shortages exacerbated by the summer’s sweltering heat in the central province of Babylon, an AFP correspondent said.Iraq, and its 46 million inhabitants, have been...
AFP : US President Donald Trump was due to arrive in Scotland on Friday for a mix of diplomacy, business and leisure, with a huge security operation swinging into place and protests planned near...
AP : Coffee hasn’t always been an easy sell in Nepal. The Himalayan country is a major tea producer, as well as a major consumer. When people greet each other in the morning, they...
AFP : Rescuers in the northern Philippines picked up residents stranded by flooding and delivered supplies by boat Friday, as Typhoon Co-May was downgraded to a tropical storm hours after making landfall.Schools remained closed...
AFP : International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said Friday he was “encouraged” that Iran had agreed for a delegation from the UN nuclear watchdog to visit the country “within weeks”.Grossi said...
AP : Before the eruption of sectarian violence in southern Syria, Saber Abou Ras taught medical sciences at a university in the city of Sweida and was somewhat hopeful of a better future for...
Al Jazeera : A Thai F-16 jet has bombed targets in Cambodia, as a simmering border dispute and diplomatic meltdown rapidly ignited into fierce clashes, bombing and shelling that have killed at least 12...