August2024

This morning, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the chief adviser of the recently established interim government, and thirteen other advisers laid wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar in honor of the language movement’s martyrs. Dr. Yunus first laid...

A far-right Israeli minister was denounced by the European Union, France, and the UK on Wednesday for implying that starving two million Gazanians would be “justified and moral” in exchange for the release of several prisoners...

As the Gaza war entered its eleventh month on Wednesday, tensions in the region threatened to explode, and Israel pledged to remove new Hamas head Yahya Sinwar, the claimed mastermind of the October 7 attack. With...

Due to Middle East tensions, Australian airline Qantas canceled its non-stop Perth to London flight on Thursday, citing the decision as a “precaution”. The aircraft, which typically travels a nonstop 17 and a half hours, will...

45 people have died in Yemen in recent days as a result of flooding brought on by intense rain, according to figures released on Wednesday by a local official and a United Nations agency. In Maqbanah,...

Turkey on Wednesday joined South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. A Turkish parliamentary delegation accompanied by the Turkish ambassador to the Netherlands filed a “declaration of intervention” at the ICJ’s...

Weary of war After Hamas named Yahya Sinwar as its new supremo on Wednesday, Gazans expressed concern that his previous role as the movement’s military commander may impede efforts to achieve the much-desired truce. “We don’t...

Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, the opposition candidate from Venezuela who believes he is the legitimate victor of the nation’s presidential election, disobeyed a summons from the Supreme Court on Wednesday on the contentious results. Without providing comprehensive...

The national head of Amnesty International told AFP on Wednesday that the rights organization has accused Nigerian security forces of killing at least 21 protestors during a week of demonstrations against economic hardship. Following hundreds of...

This evening, Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate, took the oath of office as the main advisor of a 17-member transitional administration. The oath was administered here in the Durbar Hall of the Bangabhaban by...