Wednesday | February 04, 2026 | Dhaka
Deutsche Welle :The Danish parliament on Thursday approved legislation that would effectively prohibit Quran burnings in the northern European country.The law criminalizes the “inappropriate treatment of writings with significant importance for a recognized religious...
AFP :Five Guyanese soldiers died this week when their helicopter crashed near Venezuela, President Irfaan Ali said Thursday as the neighbors faced off in a fast-escalating border dispute.Writing on Instagram, Ali said Guyana had...
AFP :The UN Security Council meets on Gaza Friday under acute pressure from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and will vote on urging an immediate ceasefire after weeks of ruinous war.Even though the civilian death toll...
BBC :An Australian man has died after being buried in sand on a beach, authorities say.Josh Taylor was at a beach campground on Queensland’s Bribie Island on Saturday when he fell into a hole...
AFP :The Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, one of the leaders of a young generation of authors in Gaza who chose to write in English to tell their stories, was killed in an Israeli strike,...
Al Jazeera :Taiwan has said that a dozen Chinese fighter jets and a balloon crossed the Taiwan Strait’s sensitive median line, as tensions simmer about a month before the island’s presidential election.Democratically governed Taiwan,...
AFP :Livestock is responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans and its impact will only increase as meat consumption rises, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday.To reduce emissions,...
Al Jazeera :Armenia and Azerbaijan have said they will exchange prisoners of war and work towards normalising their relations, in a move welcomed by the European Union and the United States.The two countries have...
AFP :British Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Thursday urged US lawmakers to approve fresh aid for Ukraine to help fund Kyiv’s battle against Russian forces.“I’m not worried about the strength and unity and consensus...
AFP :Indonesian authorities on Thursday said they had ended a search and rescue mission for any hikers missing or killed after a volcano eruption over the weekend that left 23 people dead.Mount Marapi on...
AFP :Three people were killed and another seriously injured by a gunman who was shot dead by police at a US university on Wednesday.The incident at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a short...
AFP :A record of over half a million US-bound migrants have crossed the dangerous Darien jungle from Colombia to Panama so far this year, the government in Panama said Wednesday.The number was double that...