Tuesday | February 03, 2026 | Dhaka
AFP :A Thai man was given a 50-year prison sentence Thursday for criticising the monarchy — the longest jail term ever handed down under the kingdom’s strict royal insult laws, a legal rights group...
Al Jazeera :Japan is attempting to land its high-precision “Moon Sniper” probe on the lunar surface and will become only the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon – if all goes...
AFP :King Charles III’s aim of a “slimmed-down” monarchy came in for scrutiny on Friday, as questions were asked about who will stand in for him while he goes into hospital.The 75-year-old British head...
AFP :At least seven people were killed when a landslide hit a house in the southern Philippines on Thursday, a disaster official said, with the death toll expected to rise.The incident happened in the...
AFP :Mexico and Chile on Thursday joined calls for an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the Israel-Hamas war that has left thousands of people dead.The referral “is due to the growing...
AFP :Pakistan’s Prime Minister will hold an emergency security meeting on Friday with military and intelligence chiefs after trading deadly air strikes with Iran on militant targets this week.The rare military actions in the...
Al Jazeera :Somalia said on Thursday there was no room for mediation in a dispute with Ethiopia unless Addis Ababa cancelled a controversial deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland.Tensions in the Horn of...
Reuters :Suspected Jordanian air strikes on southern Syria killed 10 people including children early on Thursday, according to local Syrian media and monitors tracking the conflict.There was no immediate comment from Jordanian authorities.Jordan’s army...
AFP :In the occupied West Bank, Hafeth Ghazawneh waits in quiet frustration for customers to visit his falafel stall, which has been deserted since the October 7 Hamas retaliation campaign in Israel.His breakfast and...
Reuters :Singapore’s former Transport Minister S Iswaran has been charged in court for graft, the anti-corruption agency said on Thursday, in one of the most high-profile graft cases involving a minister in the Asian...
Reuters :Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, has undergone successful planned abdominal surgery and will be in hospital for up to two weeks, while King Charles will also undergo treatment for an enlarged prostate, royal...
BBC :French President Emmanuel Macron has come off the fence and opened the way for policies that are unmistakably on the political right.That is the unanimous verdict after he gave a long, televised press...