United States-based credit rating agency Fitch Ratings has downgraded Bangladesh's Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating to 'B+' from 鈥笲B-鈥�, due to the lingering weakening of the country's external buffers...
Bangladesh鈥檚 readymade garment exports to its major markets, including the United States and Germany declined in 10 months (July-April) of the current financial year 2023-24...
COLLEGE campuses and universities across the country have organised some of the largest peace activities and anti-war protests since 1969. As the social movement points in specific directions in calling for Palestinian liberation, over 100 schools scattered across the United States...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday sought support of the United States businesses in Bangladesh鈥檚 journey to become a developed and smart country by 2041...
The death toll from tornadoes and other extreme weather that buffeted the central United States over the weekend climbed to 21 on Monday, as the severe storms threatened to roil parts of the East Coast.
Australia, Canada, the European Union, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States reiterated their call on all states to prevent or cease the flow of arms or military and dual-use material, including aviation fuel to the Myanmar military....
The EU, United States and other countries jointly voiced alarm on Friday at the worsening conflict in Myanmar and the 鈥榠ncreasing harm to civilians鈥� it was bringing...
AS WE write this, Israel has embarked on the final phase of its genocidal war in Gaza, bombing Rafah where more than a million Palestinians have been driven by repeated evacuations from the rest of the Gaza Strip. Today, they have nowhere left to go...
The United States was imposing new visa restrictions and reviewing relations with Georgia, secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Thursday, after it pushed forward a Russian-style 鈥榝oreign influence鈥� law that triggered mass protests...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree allowing the confiscation of assets inside Russia belonging to the United States, its citizens and companies, to compensate those hit by Western sanctions against Moscow.
Former presidential hopeful Nikki Haley said on Wednesday that she would vote for Donald Trump in the US election, but said her one-time bitter rival would have to work to win over her moderate support base as he faces President Joe Biden in November.....
THE decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal the order to extradite him to the United States may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory. It does not mean Julian will elude extradition. It does not mean the court has ruled, as it should, that...
The Association of Bankers Bangladesh, an organisation representing top bank officials, clarified that the United States Department of Justice鈥檚 Office of...
The United States Department of State has announced that the former chief of the Bangladesh Army, General Aziz Ahmed, and his family members are generally ineligible to...
Russia on Tuesday said the United States was seeking to place weapons in space, the latest accusation in an ongoing row that comes a day after Washington vetoed a...
United States ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas on Tuesday said that it would take contributions from the government, private sector, and civil society to achieve a just energy transition in Bangladesh...
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said that the Bangladesh mission in Washington was earlier informed about the United States restrictions on entry of ex-chief of Army Staff General Aziz Ahmed and his family members to the United States over corruption...
China said on Monday that it would sanction three US defence companies over their sales of arms to Taiwan, as the self-ruled island inaugurated a new president.....
Saudi Arabia鈥檚 de facto ruler and a top aide to US president Joe Biden have discussed a 鈥榮emi-final鈥� version of a deal expected to beef up security ties...
The US embassy Dhaka鈥檚 United States Department of Agriculture is launching its new Bangladesh Climate Smart Livestock project to enhance...
The United States on Thursday said Chinese President Xi Jinping cannot both improve ties with the West and support Russia after he vowed to boost relations with his counterpart Vladimir Putin...
The president of Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng on Friday criticised the fresh tariffs on Chinese cars imposed by Washington as 鈥榰nfavourable鈥� for the United States鈥� energy transition...
The United States has said that the sanctions imposed against Bangladesh鈥檚 elite force Rapid Action Battalion are not being withdrawn.....
More than 30,000 children have crossed the perilous Darien Gap jungle in four months on the path to a better life in the United States, a number...
Another staffer in United States president Joe Biden鈥檚 administration has publicly resigned in protest of the US鈥檚 continued support for Israel amid its war on...
ON APRIL 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it 鈥楬ind鈥檚 Hall鈥�, dropping a large banner out the windows above the building鈥檚 entrance. This was a hall famously occupied by students in the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War and against Jim Crow racism in the United States...
Singapore on Wednesday swore in Lawrence Wong as its new prime minister on Wednesday, replacing Lee Hsien Loong following two decades in office, with the new leader warning that the trade-dependent city-state faced a riskier, more conflict-ridden world...
Prime minister鈥檚 private industry and investment adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman has said that the White House and the United States Department of State are in favour of lifting sanctions on the Rapid Action Battelion but it depends on the Department of Justice...
Visiting United States assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu is scheduled to hold meetings with the ministries of foreign affairs and...
The United States must move on from the 鈥榯rauma鈥� of two decades of war and step up counterterrorism efforts to face growing threats from Afghanistan and...
