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According to demining officials, two Cambodian deminers were killed while attempting to remove a decades-old anti-tank mine from a rice field that had previously been the scene of combat between government troops and Khmer Rouge soldiers....

Israel’s security cabinet was set to meet Friday after final details of a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal were ironed out, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, with the United States “confident” the truce would...

North Korea condemned on Friday joint military drills between South Korea, Japan and the United States held this week, threatening to respond by exercising its right to self-defence “more intensively”. The trilateral exercise was held after...

With full government funding, 57 trapped Bangladeshi people were repatriated from war-torn Lebanon today on an aircraft from Qatar. According to a foreign ministry press release here, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Expatriates’...

By encouraging positive communication and assisting Bangladeshi companies operating in Africa, Dhaka has redoubled its efforts to investigate prospects in that continent. According to a ministry press statement issued today, the foreign ministry had an interministerial...

In a historic agreement with outgoing US President Joe Biden, Cuban opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer was one of several detainees freed Thursday, sparking tearful reunions around the communist island. In a last-ditch effort to solidify...

Environmental, Forest, and Climate Change Advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan today called on everyone to adopt the ‘eco-centric’ mindset in order to preserve the environment, water, land, and all living things. “We have to be eco-centric in...

The most well-liked politician in Pakistan, Imran Khan, faces a 14-year prison sentence this month in a case that his party claims is being used to coerce him into remaining silent. Long a source of annoyance...

Three people on board a small police training aircraft were killed on Wednesday in a crash in northern Iran, state media reported. “A light training aircraft crashed near the city of Rasht on Wednesday due to...

The Police Reform Commission (PRC) today submitted its report to Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus proposing amendment and replacement of 22 existing laws for making the “people’s friendly” the country’s main law enforcement agency.   “We have...