December2023

The United States and Sweden on Tuesday signed a first-ever defense cooperation agreement that will strengthen military ties and permit bilateral exercises as the Scandinavian nation awaits accession to NATO, authorities said. US Defense Secretary Lloyd...

As Caracas introduced a bill to establish a Venezuelan province in a disputed oil-rich territory and ordered the state oil corporation to grant licenses for extracting crude there, tensions between Venezuela and Guyana increased on Tuesday....

Today, 145 citizens of Bangladesh who had been detained in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, were returned to their home country. According to a press announcement, the Bangladeshi nationals were on a Buraq Air chartered flight...

This year will be the hottest in recorded history after November became the sixth record-breaking month in a row, Europe’s climate monitor said Wednesday, piling pressure on the COP28 talks to act on climate change. C3S...

Following a flurry of criticism from his former aides, former UK prime leader Boris Johnson will be put through a rigorous grilling at a public inquiry on Wednesday on his government’s handling of the Covid-19 outbreak....

Israel now counts 138 hostages held by Gaza militants, authorities told AFP on Tuesday, after adding to the list one person previously considered missing since Hamas’s October 7 attacks. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office provided the...

In light of Israel’s bombing assault, the UN issued a warning on Tuesday, stating that it was difficult to establish so-called safe zones inside the Gaza Strip for civilians to escape to. Although Israel’s army had...

The number of hikers found dead  after a volcano eruption in Indonesia has risen to 22 after nine more bodies  were found, a local search and rescue agency official said Tuesday. “9 of 10 missing victims...

Later this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to make working visits to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to Putin’s assistant Yury Ushakov. “This will be a working visit. First of...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the concession agreement on operation of Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) between Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) and Saudi Arabia’s company Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT) will help further enhance Saudi investment...