Wednesday | February 11, 2026 | Dhaka
Reuters:Pakistan’s government has ordered all malls and markets to close by 8:30 pm among other measures in a new energy conservation plan, the defence minister said on Tuesday, as the country grapples with an...
AFP :Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s president on Sunday, delivering a searing indictment of far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro and vowing a drastic change of course to rescue a...
AFP :Seoul and Washington are discussing joint planning and exercises involving US nuclear assets to counter growing threats from the nuclear-armed North, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has said.In an interview with the Chosun...
Reuters :Israeli forces killed a Hamas militant and another Palestinian during clashes near the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Monday that were set off when the army came to demolish the homes...
AFP :North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has called for a major increase in the country’s nuclear arsenal, including mass producing tactical nuclear weapons and developing new missiles for nuclear counterstrikes, state media said Sunday.In...
Al Jazeera :In early October, Jair Bolsonaro’s poll-defying performance in Brazil’s first-round presidential election revitalised his stuttering campaign.Ultimately, though, it was Luis Inácio Lula da Silva (or Lula) who triumphed in the nail-biting run-off...
Al Jazeera :An explosion outside the military airport in Kabul has caused multiple casualties, a spokesman for the Taliban-run interior ministry said.“Today morning an explosion took place outside Kabul military airport, due to which...
News Desk :A survey released by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) on Friday said that poverty affects one-third of the Arab region’s population, excluding the Gulf Cooperation Council...
AFP :Russia’s authorities announced Friday that soldiers and state employees deployed in Ukraine will be exempt from income tax, in the latest effort to encourage support of its military operation there.The new measure concerns...
AFP :France and Britain on Friday joined a growing list of nations imposing Covid tests on travelers from China, and the World Health Organization pressed Beijing to be more forthcoming on real-time data amid...
Reuters :In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this.Patients are arriving at his hospital in ever-increasing numbers; almost all are elderly and...
AFP :At least 15 people were killed in western Mexico on Friday when the bus they were traveling in flipped over and crashed, local authorities said.The victims were tourists on their way back to...