August2024

Basel, a Swiss city bordering Germany and France, will host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, public broadcaster SSR-SRG announced on Friday. The final of the event, which attracted 163 million viewers worldwide this year, will take place on Saturday,...

Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport has seen a deportation flight to Afghanistan, the state of Saxony’s interior ministry announced on Friday. Since the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August 2021, this is the first time that Afghans...

Ahsan H. Mansur, the governor of Bangladesh Bank, has advised the public not to purchase any S Alam Group properties since the group’s assets will be sold by the government to pay back the depositors who...

Israel has agreed to a series of three-day “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow health officials to administer polio vaccinations to children in the territory, the World Health Organization said Thursday. “The way we discussed and agreed...

In Kerala, a state in southern India, a police investigation into allegations of sexual assault and harassment against a number of well-known actors and directors has intensified national concern about violence against women. The claims coincide...

At the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, Angelina Jolie will make a comeback to the spotlight as Maria Callas, a.k.a. “La Divina,” a character whose mesmerizing combination of rich voice, glitzy appearance, and sad love story...

Bangladesh has formally asked the UN for assistance in conducting investigations into human rights abuses that occurred between July 1 and August 15, during the quota reform campaign, and during the student rebellion. UN High Commissioner...

A senior UN assistance official asked on Thursday, amid the raging conflict in Gaza and the challenges facing humanitarian operations, “what has become of our basic humanity.” “We cannot plan more than 24 hours in advance...

Elon Musk and a judge of the Brazilian Supreme Court continued their standoff on Thursday after the billionaire’s Starlink company announced that its assets had been frozen in the nation due to a dispute over what...

The Turkish overseas relief organization, Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), has stepped in to offer emergency support in response to the disastrous floods that have hit Bangladesh’s central, eastern, and southeast regions. As part of...