Thursday | February 12, 2026 | Dhaka
AFP :Almost everyone on board a boat died when it capsized in a flood-swollen river in Nigeria’s Anambra state, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday.An estimated 85 people were taking the overloaded boat on...
NDTV :Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party founder and three-time Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, died this morning after weeks in hospital. He was 82.The Samajwadi Party quoted Mulayam Singh’s son Akhilesh Yadav as saying: “My...
AFP :Incessant rain lashed parts of northern India on Monday forcing schools to close in several cities as an unusually late rainy season prolonged havoc across the country, and killed 18 people over the...
AFP :Malaysia’s prime minister dissolved parliament on Monday to clear the way for snap elections in a bid to restore political stability as the country emerges from the ravages of Covid-19 and a multi-billion...
Al Jazeera :The head of the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), a Kyiv-based human rights organisation that was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, says the prize will give them “more strength”...
BSS :The International Monetary Fund announced Friday it will provide $1.3 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine through its new food crisis assistance program.The package will help meet Ukraine’s “urgent balance of payment needs…...
BSS/AFP :Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said that Ukrainian forces have recaptured nearly 2,500 square kilometres (965 square miles) of territory from Russia in a counteroffensive that began late last month.“This week alone,...
Al Jazeera :The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with US tools, vastly...
BSS/AFP :The end of the novel coronavirus pandemic is “in sight,” but the World Health Organization (WHO) has no mechanism for announcing its end, according to the WHO.When asked by a TASS correspondent about...
BSS :North Korea on Saturday defended its recent flurry of missile tests as a legitimate defense against what it called US military threats.The reclusive communist country has conducted six sanctions-busting launches in less than...
BSS :Two police officers in southern Vietnam have been arrested for negligence over a karaoke bar fire that killed 32 people last month, authorities said.Fire ripped through the three-storey entertainment venue in a dense...
BSS/AFP :The United States sees no sign of Russian preparations to use a nuclear weapon in the near future, the White House said on Friday after President Joe Biden warned that the world risks...