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Today, President Mohammed Shahabuddin urged journalists to contribute effectively to the creation of a democratic and discrimination-free “new Bangladesh,” infused with the spirit of the July-August public uprising and the 1971 Liberation War. For the benefit...

Today, President Mohammed Shahabuddin called for increased Japanese investment in Bangladesh’s tourism, ICT, medical, and other developing industries. He made the call as Shinichi SAIDA, Japan’s new ambassador to Bangladesh, gave the president a presentation of...

US President Joe Biden was charged on Monday by the special counsel who brought Hunter Biden’s case that his criticism of the investigation into his son had damaged public trust in the legal system. Hunter Biden,...

On Tuesday, South Korea’s Constitutional Court will begin the impeachment trial of suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol, considering whether to remove him from office due to a failed attempt to impose martial law. South Korea’s biggest...

The governor of a frontier state claimed that there was a “international conspiracy” behind Venezuela’s decision to seal its border with Colombia on Friday, just before President Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration. Freddy Bernal, the governor of Tachira,...

South Korea’s suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol refused a summons to appear for questioning on Christmas Day, the second time he has defied investigators’ demands in a week. Investigators probing Yoon had ordered him to appear...

The opposition in South Korea announced on Tuesday that it will postpone until later this week a decision to remove interim President Han Duck-soo from office. In response to Han’s unwillingness to enact special legislation to...

Pope Francis called on Lebanese politicians on Sunday to urgently elect a new president, to get the country’s governing institutions functioning again. “I address an urgent invitation to all Lebanese politicians to elect the president of...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Governors has unanimously elected Masato Kanda as ADB’s 11th President. Kanda, 59, currently serves as special advisor to Japan’s Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. He will assume office...

Masoud Pezeshkian, a champion of stronger links with the West and a reformist, defeated ultraconservative Saeed Jalili in a runoff presidential election in Iran on Saturday, according to the Interior Ministry. The election took place amid...