Thai tycoon takes office as PM
Thai tycoon Anutin Charnvirakul took office as prime minister on Sunday, with the cannabis-championing conservative ousting the nation鈥檚 dominant political dynasty and setting course for elections early next year.
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Tarique Rahman is future prime minister: Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said that the party鈥檚 acting chairman Tarique Rahman would be the future prime minister of Bangladesh...
UK to recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel acts
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Tuesday the UK will formally recognise the State of Palestine in September unless Israel takes various 鈥榮ubstantive steps鈥�, including agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza.
Trump takes a swipe at London's mayor
US President Donald Trump attacked London's Mayor Sadiq Khan once again at a news conference in Scotland alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who interjected that Khan was his 鈥榝riend鈥�.
PM鈥檚 10-year term, police commission agreed
Political parties on Sunday agreed that no individual should hold office of the prime minister for more than 10 years in his or her lifetime. They have also agreed to the establishment of an independent police commission...
Over 220 UK MPs urge Starmer to recognise Palestinian state
More than 220 British MPs, including dozens from the ruling Labour party, demanded Friday that the UK government 聽formally recognise a Palestinian state, further increasing pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Most parties oppose party chief as PM
The majority of the 30 political parties on Monday agreed that a lawmaker could hold dual roles as the prime minister and as the leader of the parliament, but should not simultaneously serve as the chief of a political party...
Political parties still split over PM鈥檚 term
Most political parties on Sunday agreed to limit the tenure of the prime minister, but a complete consensus was not reached.
Netanyahu welcomes all help, says Israel changing world with Iran war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel was 鈥榗hanging the face of the world鈥� in its war with Iran, as he welcomed 鈥榓ll help鈥� in destroying the Islamic republic's nuclear sites.
Acting foreign secy admits failure
Acting foreign secretary Md Ruhul Alam Siddique on Tuesday said that the Bangladesh foreign ministry had some responsibility for not taking place an expected meeting between interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and British prime minister Keir Starmer in London during his June 10-13 visit to the United Kingdom...
Iran, Israel trade missile strikes amid escalating tensions
Iran launched a new wave of missiles at Israel on Saturday, wounding several people in residential buildings, while Israel said it was striking Tehran.
Australian PM basks in win, vows 鈥榦rderly鈥� govt
Australia鈥檚 left-leaning prime minister Anthony Albanese basked Sunday in his landslide election win, promising a 鈥榙isciplined, orderly鈥� government to confront cost-of-living pain and tariff turmoil...
Singapore's long-ruling party wins another landslide in election boost for new PM
Voters have handed Singapore鈥檚 long-time ruling party a landslide election victory, offering prime minister Lawrence Wong a clear mandate to navigate the trade-orientated Southeast Asian nation through economic upheaval sparked by looming US tariffs...
Japan PM goes to Vietnam, the Philippines to talk tariffs
Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba left Sunday for a four-day trip to Vietnam and the Philippines, as Tokyo seeks to shore up regional ties after Donald Trump鈥檚 tariff onslaught...
Too little, too late
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu鈥檚 vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that has consistently viewed the establishment of a Palestinian state as a direct threat to Israel鈥檚 very foundation as a settler colonial project...
Registration for getting educational stipends thru Nagad begins
The online registration for receiving scholarships and stipends from the Prime Minister鈥檚 Education Assistance Trust through Nagad began on Tuesday, said a press release...
Pakistan FM to visit Dhaka April 27-28
Pakistan鈥檚 deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar is scheduled to come to Bangladesh on April 27 on a two-day visit...
Wary of Moscow, Poland mulls mines treaty exit, plans military training for men
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday announced a slew of measures aimed at boosting his country's defence, including a possible exit from a landmark anti-mines treaty and large-scale military training for men.
Mauritius police arrest ex-PM in money laundering probe
Police in Mauritius on Sunday arrested the island's former prime minister Pravind Jugnauth in a money-laundering probe and seized stacks of cash in raids on fellow suspects' homes, officials said.
Trump offers top-end jets, trade deal to India in Modi bromance
US President Donald Trump on Thursday offered to sell state-of-the-art fighter jets to India as he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to ramp up trade, rekindling a bond that defies the new US administration's punitive approach to much of the world.
India's Modi builds bromance with Trump, Musk despite trade war
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Donald Trump -- and billionaire Elon Musk -- at the White House on Thursday, with the two national leaders hailing their close bond despite Trump's expanding global trade war.
Macron courts Modi in quest for geopolitical 鈥榠ndependence鈥�
French president Emmanuel Macron and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi visited southern France with a packed schedule on Wednesday, fostering a relationship that Paris sees as an alternative to great power rivalries...
Bangladesh's ousted PM Hasina ordered protesters鈥� killing, body hiding: UN
The ousted prime minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, herself ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies to quell the student-led protests in July 2024 in Bangladesh, according to a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Trump, real estate and dreams of ethnic cleansing
PRESIDENT Donald J Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different. With a touch of horror and the grotesque, he offered a solution to the issue of what would happen to Gaza at the conclusion of hostilities. In a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he...
Starmer urges world leaders to test for HIV
Keir Starmer has urged other world leaders to take an HIV test, after becoming the first serving British prime minister and G7 leader to take a public test on camera...
Anti-Muslim hate speech surges in India
Hate speech in India targeting the country's religious minorities saw a 鈥榮taggering鈥� surge in 2024, a US-based think tank said Monday.
Modi鈥檚 BJP celebrates landslide New Delhi win
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that 鈥榙evelopment had won鈥� as his Hindu nationalist party took back control of the capital province Delhi in local elections...
TRUMP鈥橲 GAZA 鈥楻IVIERA鈥� PROPOSAL: A reckless real estate fantasy
ON FEBRUARY 4, in a press conference alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US president Donald Trump unveiled a plan as audacious as it is alarming: the United States would 鈥榯ake over鈥� the Gaza Strip, forcibly displace its 1.8 million Palestinian residents and redevelop the territory into a luxury enclave he dubbed 鈥榯he Riviera of the...
Dozens of migrants leave Albania after Italian court ruling
Dozens of migrants left Albania in Italian custody on Saturday, after a ruling by judges in Rome struck a fresh blow to prime minister Giorgia Meloni鈥檚 embattled third-country migration centres...
Muslims decry identity attack as Indian state enforces uniform civil code
An Indian state announced Monday it had begun implementing a common civil code to replace religious laws, stoking fear among minority Muslims of a looming nationwide rollout by the Hindu-nationalist ruling party.