CNN : Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced his resignation on Thursday, handing power over to a transitional council that will seek to gain control of the violence-ravaged nation. Henry...
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Al Jazeera : Witness testim%ony is set to begin for a fourth day in former United States President Donald Trump’s New York trial related to hush-money payments made to an...
Reuters : A baby girl who was delivered from her dying mother’s womb in a Gaza hospital following an Israeli airstrike has herself died after just a few days of...
Reuters : Students blocked access to Paris’ prestigious Sciences Po university over the war in Gaza on Friday, demanding the institution condemn Israel’s actions, in a protest that echoed similar...
Al Jazeera : Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is being investigated in connection with a corruption probe involving his sons, the country’s anticorruption agency has confirmed. Azam Baki, chief...
AFP : Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, adding that most of those to benefit were infants. That is the equivalent of six lives saved every minute of every year of the half century, the UN health agency said. In a study published in the Lancet, WHO gave a comprehensive analysis of the impact of 14 vaccines used under the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI),...
AFP : Donald Trump met with former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso in New York on Tuesday, part of the Republican’s shadow diplomacy as he campaigns to return to the White House in November’s elections. Trump welcomed Aso to Trump Tower, one of the real estate magnate’s properties in New York, where he is currently on trial accused of falsifying business records to cover up an affair with an adult film star. “He is a highly respected man in Japan...
AFP : Victims of severe floods in southern China raced on Wednesday to salvage property from the muddy waters, as authorities warned of more heavy rains to come. Massive downpours have struck Guangdong province in recent days, triggering deluges that have claimed the lives of four people and forced the evacuation of over 100,000. The severe floods are virtually unheard of so early in the year even in lush, subtropical Guangdong, with one senior official linking them to worsening climate...
Reuters : UN rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday that he was “horrified” by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there, according to a spokesperson. Palestinian authorities reported finding bodies in mass graves at a hospital in Khan Younis this week after it was abandoned by Israeli troops. Bodies were also reported at the Al Shifa site following an Israeli special forces operation. “We...
Al Jazeera : Two Japanese navy helicopters carrying eight crew members crashed into the Pacific Ocean during a night-time training exercise after possibly colliding with each other, killing one person, the defence minister said on Sunday. Rescuers on Sunday searched for seven others who were still missing. The two SH-60 patrol helicopters were conducting antisubmarine exercises on Saturday night near Torishima in the remote Izu island group, off the southern coast of central Japan. Defence Minister Minoru Kihara said rescuers...
Business Report : Grameenphone, the largest mobile phone operator in Bangladesh, logged a Tk 1,338 crore profit in the first quarter of the financial year 2024, riding on reduced net finance costs and foreign exchange gains. The telecom company, the most valued scrip in Bangladesh’s stock market, reported a 72 percent higher profit in the January-March quarter from a year ago, thanks also to reduced income tax expenses, according to its unaudited financial statement posted on its website late on...
Staff Reporter : An extreme heatwave affecting most parts of the country, including the capital city of Dhaka, has led to a noticeable decline in consumer visits to local kitchen markets. Traders have reported fewer customers since the heatwave intensified, coinciding with significant price hikes in basic commodities such as potatoes and onions. Post-Eid, the retail price of potatoes in Dhaka’s major markets like Karwan Bazar, Mogbazar, and Kalyanpur has surged to Tk55-Tk60 per kilogram, up from Tk48-Tk50 just before...
Gazipur Correspondent : An innovation showcasing was held on Bangladesh Open University (BOU) campus in Gazipur on Thursday. BOU APA Innovation Team in association with IQAC organized the exhibition while Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Syed Humayun Akhter inaugurated the event as the chief guest. Twenty stalls of different schools, Division & Regional center’s of the university took part in the showcasing. School of Science and Technology secured the first position and School of Business became second.Besides, Open School and Jashore Regional...
AFP : The threat from an Indonesian volcano that has erupted more than half a dozen times this week is not over, the archipelago’s top volcanology official told AFP, as the crater belched another ash tower on Saturday. Mount Ruang, located in Indonesia’s outermost region of North Sulawesi province, started erupting late Tuesday, prompting authorities to evacuate thousands on islands near the stratovolcano and closure of the nearest international airport. The volcano erupted again before midnight Friday and again on...
