Wednesday | January 28, 2026 | Dhaka
BBC : Hezbollah has announced the group’s deputy secretary general will become its new head.Naim Qassem replaces long-term leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut last month.He is...
AP, Tokyo : Global shares rose Monday, as the yen dipped in the midst of political uncertainty after Japan’s ruling party lost its majority in Parliament’s lower house in weekend elections. France’s CAC 40...
AFP : The EU foreign policy chief on Monday renewed calls for an “immediate ceasefire” in Lebanon and condemned Israel’s “unacceptable attacks” on UN peacekeepers in its war against Hezbollah.
News Desk : The ADB, in collaboration with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, reports that Bangladesh, India, Maldives and Sri Lanka face rising sea levels and climate threats.Against the backdrop of the Dana cyclone...
AL Jazeera : Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, says, “The entire population of Gaza is at risk of dying in a genocide that has been announced and executed...
AFP : At least 50 people have been killed in a single attack by Sudanese paramilitaries who have besieged and raided villages in al-Jazira state, activists said.The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been...
Al Jazeera : Israeli army has carried out strikes on military targets in Iran in response to what it said were months of attacks by “Iran and its proxies” in the region.Iran’s military says...
BBC : A Chinese court has upheld the death sentence for a woman who trafficked more than a dozen children in the 1990s, in a case that has gripped the country, state media report.Yu...
AFP : A suicide bomber detonated at a checkpoint in western Pakistan on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding five more, officials said.The bomber set off the blast from the back of a motorbike...
AFP : Candidates in Japan’s super-tight parliamentary election will make last-ditch appeals to voters on Saturday, with opinion polls suggesting the ruling coalition might fall short of a majority.Such an outcome would be the...
AFP : The Commonwealth’s 56 members agreed the “time has come” for talks about the legacy of the “abhorrent” transatlantic slave trade on Saturday, in a landmark summit declaration that raised the prospect of...
AFP : Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes hit two homes at dawn on Friday in Khan Yunis, the territory’s main southern city, killing at least 20 people.Fourteen people were killed in...