Monday | February 16, 2026 | Dhaka
BSS/AFP :Police, army and volunteer rescuers on Friday widened the search for dozens still missing five days after more than 340 people died in the deadliest storm to strike South Africa’s coastal city of...
BSS/AFP :South Korea will lift almost all social distancing measures, the government said Friday, citing a dramatic fall in reported cases of Covid-19 after an Omicron-fuelled surge, but the mask mandate will remain.South Koreans...
Al Jazeera :Israel fired several missiles towards Syrian military positions near Damascus, causing material damage, Syria’s military has said.State media quoted an unnamed military official on Friday as saying that the attack took place...
Al Jazeera :Angry over a worsening economic crisis, residents of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, have transformed the streets in front of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office into a protest camp.Hundreds have stayed put there since...
BSS, AFP :A massive manhunt was underway Tuesday in New York for a man who shot 10 people on a packed subway train, donning a gas mask before setting off two smoke bombs and...
BSS, AFP :Vladimir Kara-Murza, a prominent opponent of the Kremlin and its military operation in Ukraine, was sentenced to 15 days in detention Tuesday for disobeying police orders, his lawyer told AFP.”Moscow’s Khamovnichesky district...
BSS, AFP :Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian in the city of Nablus on the fifth day of military operations in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said on Wednesday. “The young...
BSS, AFP :Four French and one Belgian tourist were among 10 people killed in a bus crash in southern Egypt on Wednesday, the governor of Aswan province said.Eight French and six Belgians were taken...
BSS, AFP :The death toll from landslides and floods in the Philippines rose to 58 on Wednesday, official tallies showed, as rescuers dug up more bodies with their bare hands in villages crushed by...
BSS/Xinhua : Malaysia recorded 7,739 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Monday, bringing the total tally to 4,333,557, according to the health ministry. They included 23 new imported cases and 7,716 local transmissions, data...
BSS/AFP : By day, it is Romeo’s workplace; but at night it, is his home. Like many other finance sector workers in Shanghai, he has moved into the office to keep the wheels of...
Al Jazeera : Sri Lanka’s top diplomat in Beijing said he’s very confident that China will come through on $2.5 billion in financial support as the island nation’s inflation-driven crisis becomes more dire.Ambassador Palitha...