December2024
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Croatia’s president faces conservative rival in election run-off
Dec 30, 2024In two weeks, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic will face conservative opponent Dragan Primorac in a run-off election after the incumbent barely lost an outright victory on Sunday, according to official results. Milanovic, supported by the opposition... -
Syria’s leader says elections could take 4 years: Al Arabiya interview
Dec 30, 2024Ahmed al-Sharaa, the country’s new leader, stated on Sunday on Al Arabiya TV that polls might take four years, emphasized the value of relations with Russia and Iran, and urged the US to remove its sanctions.... -
9,91,713 workers go abroad from Jan 1-Dec 28
Dec 30, 20249,91,713 Bangladeshi workers were employed abroad between January 1 and December 28, 2024. “The trend of overseas employment is satisfactory as 9,91,713 job seekers went abroad with employment till December 28,” an official of Bangladesh Bureau... -
Security at secretariat beefed up
Dec 30, 2024Security measures at Bangladesh Secretariat has been beefed up today following the fire incident at building number 7 on Thursday last. All sorts of vehicles excepting carrying the advisers, secretaries and chiefs of different departments are being... -
Former US president Jimmy Carter dies aged 100
Dec 30, 2024According to his nonprofit organization, Jimmy Carter, the 100-year-old former US president and Nobel Peace Prize winner who led the country from 1977 to 1981 after rising from modest beginnings in rural Georgia, passed away on... -
Osamu Suzuki, who led Japan’s Suzuki Motor for more than four decades dies at 94
Dec 30, 2024Osamu Suzuki, an ingenious pennypincher who led Japan’s Suzuki Motor for more than four decades and played a key role in turning India into a flourishing auto market, has died aged 94. He died on Christmas... -
Homelessness in USA rose by record 18%, latest annual data says
Dec 30, 2024There was a record 18% rise in homelessness in the U.S. in the last year, driven by factors like unaffordable housing, high inflation, systemic racism, natural disasters and rising immigration, the U.S. Department of Housing and... -
Former US president Jimmy Carter dies at 100
Dec 30, 2024Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for... -
Roche is not planning job cuts and its business is healthy, CEO Thomas Schinecker said
Dec 30, 2024Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche is not planning job cuts and its business is healthy, CEO Thomas Schinecker was quoted as saying by a Swiss newspaper on Sunday. Roche’s share price has fallen far below peaks it... -
The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday
Dec 30, 2024The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday, when an airliner belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at...
