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The United States is set to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, with the US ambassador to the UN calling the organisation a “protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias”....

The Bangladesh embassy in Japan has opened a hotline (080-40656601 or 808-44561971) aiming to gather and disseminate information related to the earthquake that hit Osaka region on Monday morning. The embassy said it has contacted Bangladesh...

Russia welcomed the world to the World Cup on Thursday as cheerful fans streamed into Moscow and 10 other cities and President Vladimir Putin’s government derided Western efforts to isolate him. While Western countries chose not...

Two Norwegian lawmakers have nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize after the Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Christian Tybring-Gjedde and Per-Willy Amundsen, lawmakers with the populist Progress Party, told...

At least 12 people, were killed in separate incidents of landslide in different areas of Naniarchar upazila in Rangamati and Cox’s Bazar districts early Tuesday amid heavy rains in the district. In Rangamati, four of the...

Muslims across Bangladesh will observe the holy Lailatul Qadr on Tuesday night with due religious fervour and solemnity. The holy Quran was revealed to Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) on this night to show mankind the path...

The United States has welcomed a deal between United Nations agencies and Myanmar on creating conditions that would allow hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees to voluntarily and safely return to their homes in the country’s...

Guatemalan authorities warned that the Fuego volcano was showing signs of greater activity on Tuesday night as the death toll from a devastating eruption at the weekend climbed to 75 and nearly 200 people remained missing....

Fitra, a charity donation by well-off Muslims at the end of Ramadan, has been fixed at a minimum of Tk 70 per person this year. The Islamic Foundation decided on the donation rates at a meeting...

Two new cases of the deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus have been confirmed in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where another two people were killed by the virus, a health official said on Thursday. The two...