Saturday | February 07, 2026 | Dhaka
AFP :A Thai elephant gifted to Sri Lanka two decades ago arrived back in its birth country Sunday, following a diplomatic spat over the animal’s alleged mistreatment.Thai authorities had gifted the 29-year-old Muthu Raja-also...
Reuters A six-storey building collapsed while under construction in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital Abidjan on Friday, killing at least seven of the builders on site, firefighters at the scene said.Around midday local time, the...
AFP :Russia has attacked Kyiv in an overnight drone attack after a 12-day break, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, with air defence forces destroying all targets.“Another enemy air attack on Kyiv,” Sergiy Popko, head of...
Reuters :An Islamic grouping of 57 states said on Sunday collective measures are needed to prevent acts of desecration to the Quran and international law should be used to stop religious hatred after the...
Reuters :Police in the US city Baltimore said that two people had died and 28 others were injured in a mass shooting early on Sunday morning at a housing block in the city.The city’s...
AFP :New Zealand on Tuesday announced a multi-million-dollar bailout for cash-strapped universities, in the hope of preventing jobs and courses from being cut at institutions struggling to bounce back from the pandemic. The finance...
AFP :Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio was leading the results of country’s presidential election with 60 percent of votes counted, the electoral commission said Monday, in a process disputed by the opposition.Bio had...
AFP :Guatemalan presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo, who pulled off an upset in Sunday elections by advancing to a run-off, declared Monday that if he wins, his priority will be fighting corruption.Without that “we are...
AFP :Japan will restore South Korea to a list of trusted trade partners in July, the government said Tuesday, reversing its 2019 removal during a dispute over historical forced labour.The move, which reciprocates Seoul’s...
Hindustan Times :Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Supreme Court has repeatedly called for bringing a Common Civil Code (UCC), whose implementation remains ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s third major ideological goal,...
Reuters :Over a thousand Afghan civilians were killed in bombings and other violence since foreign forces left and the Taliban took over in 2021, according to a report by the U.N.’s mission to Afghanistan...
