International news and global updates
Noman Sabit: As of halftime, the World Cup final Sunday was still anybody's game, with Argentina and Spain tied 0-0. But there's been one winner already – if for nothing but sheer logistics: FIFA mana...
Noman Sabit: New filings by the Justice Department (DOJ) say it was Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem who made the decision to rebuff a court order by transferring more than 100 Venezuelan men to Salvadoran custody to be imprisoned.The di...
Bangla Press Desk: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday the "principles" of a revised US plan to end the war with Russia could lead to "deeper agreements" and that "much depends" on Washington.An original US plan to end almost four...
Bangla Press Desk: At least four people were killed when a fire engulfed several high-rise blocks in a Hong Kong residential estate on Wednesday, the government said, with media reporting that some residents were trapped inside.Massive flames took ho...
Bangla Press Desk: Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a failed coup, after he exhausted all appeals.The brash former army captain who fired up Br...
Bangla Press Desk: Afghanistan's Taliban government vowed Tuesday to "respond appropriately" to overnight strikes it blamed on neighbouring Pakistan that killed 10 people, as tensions spiked the day after a suicide bombing in a Pakistani city.A...
Bangla Press Desk: Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said his government will propose $40 billion in additional defence spending over several years, as the democratic island seeks to deter a potential Chinese invasion.Taiwan has ramped up defen...
Noman Sabit: Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for libel. He estimates his damages as anywhere from $1 billion to $5 billion.He claims the BBC made “false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements” about him in a documentary publi...
Bangla Press Desk: The Trump administration announced on Monday that it was ending temporary protections shielding immigrants from Myanmar from deportation from the United States.The move affects around 4,000 people from the Southeast Asian na...
Abu Sabet: A federal judge dismissed the cases against two of President Trump’s political adversaries on Monday after finding that the prosecutor Trump handpicked to pursue charges against them was unlawfully appointed.U.S. District Judge Cameron Cur...
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Bangla Press Desk: The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG) announced Monday that it would cut some 900 jobs over the next three years as it strives to reduce costs "amid upheavals in the media landscape". The broadcasting group, which ope...
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Bangla Press Desk: China accused Japan of crossing a diplomatic “red line” after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested earlier this month that Tokyo could consider military action if China blockaded Taiwan.Chinese Foreign Minister W...
Bangla Press Desk: Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined buildings still line many streets, but the city's cacophony is now one of construction, not destruction.Th...
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