Monday | February 16, 2026 | Dhaka
BSS :European Council chief Charles Michel on Thursday backed a proposal to release an additional 500 million euros ($540 million) to provide arms for Ukraine.“Once swiftly approved this will bring to 1.5 billion euros...
BSS :The “new mayor” of Mariupol, put in place by pro-Russian forces, announced Thursday that around 5,000 civilians had died in the besieged southeastern Ukrainian city.“Around 60-70 percent of the housing stock has been...
BSS :A strike on a train station in eastern Ukraine on Friday killed 39 people, including four children, Ukraine’s SBU security service said. “Russian fascists bombed Kramatorsk Station, 39 killed including four children,” SBU...
BSS :World food prices hit an all-time high in March as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent “shocks” through markets for staple grains and vegetable oils, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday.The...
Al Jazeera :This Monday, millions of Nigerians woke up to find that they had been barred from making phone calls. The number of disconnected lines is reported to be as many as 75 million,...
BSS :A cargo plane carrying mail and packages skidded off the runway and broke in two during an emergency landing in Costa Rica on Thursday, causing the temporary closure of the international airport in...
BSS :Yemen’s president announced on Thursday he is handing his powers to a new leadership council, in a major shake-up in the coalition battling Huthi rebels as a fragile ceasefire takes hold.“I irreversibly delegate...
BSS :A Red Cross convoy arrived in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday after failing to reach the besieged port city of Mariupol, an AFP journalist on the scene reported.Accompanied by the...
BSS :Pakistan President Arif Alvi told the election commission on Wednesday to fix a date for a new national ballot, as the supreme court sat to decide the legality of political manoeuvres that led...
BSS :China reported over 20,000 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest daily tally given since the start of the pandemic, with Shanghai the heart of the virus surge despite being in lockdown.The country’s “zero-Covid”...
BSS :Additional US sanctions will include, among other things, a ban on investments in Russia and will be designed to weaken the key instruments of the Russian government, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki...
BSS :Turkey on Wednesday joined the global condemnation of the murder of civilians in the town of Bucha and other cities in Ukraine, and called for an independent investigation.“The images of the massacre, which...