Wednesday | January 28, 2026 | Dhaka
AFP : Separatists fired on a paramilitary border post in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, killing seven soldiers, local authorities said Saturday, a week after the same group killed 26 people at a railway station....
AFP : Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed “serious concerns over the situation surrounding the South China Sea, Hong Kong and Xinjiang” to Chinese President Xi Jinping in the pair’s first in-person talks, Tokyo’s...
Al Jazeera : The charging of CIA official Asif Rahman for allegedly leaking US intelligence of Israeli preparations for retaliatory strikes on Iran in October has brought into open view the shadow war of...
AFP : The UN’s climate chief urged G20 nations on Saturday to push COP29 negotiations toward a deal to raise money for developing nations, warning there was a “long way to go.” Negotiators worked...
AFP : Questions — and, for some, outrage — intensified over several of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks Friday, as Washington awaits announcements for more major positions, including the FBI and Treasury chiefs. Trump...
AFP : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Russia’s war against his country will “end sooner” than it otherwise would have done once Donald Trump becomes US president next year. “It is...
Deutsche Welle : The percentage of adults who have diabetes globally has doubled over the last 30 years, according to a new study published in the journal Lancet on Thursday. In 1990, about 7%...
Al Jazeera : Cities in Asia and the United States emit the most heat-trapping gases that feed climate change, according to new data, as delegates at United Nations climate talks decide how much rich...
AFP : From banning tuk-tuks and barbecues to demolishing old brick kilns, Pakistan’s government is pushing a series of measures to fight record-breaking smog. But environmental activists and experts warn that the efforts hardly...
Reuters : Princess Mikasa, the oldest member of Japan’s royal family and great aunt to the emperor, died aged 101 on Friday in a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. She had been...
AFP : A building in Beirut’s southern suburbs collapsed in a gigantic cloud of smoke and dust, an AFP photographer reported, as two strikes attributed to Israel hit the Hezbollah bastion on Friday. A...
