Politics

Two weeks prior to US elections, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the Middle East on Monday to continue his push for a truce in Gaza, which he sees as a fresh opportunity...

Bangladesh will have a team led by Foreign Secretary Md. Jashim Uddin at the 16th BRICS Summit, which will take place in Kazan, Russia, on October 22–23. A top ministry official told BSS this morning that...

With tensions in the Middle East rising and Ukraine bracing for another winter of conflict, the G7 defence ministers began negotiations on Saturday. As the Group of Seven’s rotating chair, Italy hosted the organization’s first ministerial...

Prabowo Subianto will be sworn in Sunday as president of the world’s third-largest democracy, Indonesia, with the wealthy ex-general accused of rights abuses taking over eight months after a landslide election win. The 73-year-old fiery nationalist...

Md Touhid Hossain, the adviser on foreign affairs, is scheduled to leave Dhaka tonight for Samoa in order to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) that will take place there. He is scheduled to...

Following his life-altering cancer diagnosis eight months ago, King Charles III set off on his most demanding international journey when he landed in Australia on Friday. The 75-year-old monarch and his wife Queen Camilla arrived in...

H.E. Marje LUUP, the recently appointed non-resident ambassador of Estonia to Bangladesh, made his first formal visit to Hon. Md. Touhid Hossain, the advisor for foreign affairs, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka today....

Today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka, Honourable Adviser for Foreign Affairs, H.E. Md. Touhid Hossain, received a maiden courtesy call from H.E. Mikhail Kasko, the recently appointed non-resident Ambassador of Belarus to Bangladesh....

In Japan, the October 27 election will see new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba trying to hold onto the majority of his party, which has ruled for a long time. Campaigning for the election began on Tuesday....

Tuesday marks the first trip to Pakistan for a summit by India’s top envoy, which comes from New Delhi, to the country’s bitterly hostile neighbour in almost ten years. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will “represent India at the...