ISRAEL鈥橲 consistent attacks on Iran since 2023 have all been illegal, violations of the United Nations Charter (1945). Iran is a member state of the United Nations and is therefore a sovereign state in the international order. If Israel had a problem with Iran, there are many mechanisms mandated by international law that permit Israel to bring complaints against Iran...
THOSE drone attacks on five Russian airfields last week were nothing if not daring. No final report from Moscow yet, but three figures鈥� worth of Ukrainian drones launched from the backs of trucks destroyed some number of strategic bombers in the Russian fleet...
Russia launched fresh drone and missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and port city of Odesa early on Tuesday, killing three people and hitting a maternity hospital, Ukrainian officials said...
Left student organisations on Sunday condemned recent attacks on and threats to left student leaders and activists during demonstrations in Rajshahi and Chattogram rejecting the Supreme Court鈥檚 May 27 verdict acquitting Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam of 1971 war crimes charges...
At least 44 people have been killed in separate attacks in recent days in central Nigeria, a local government official said Tuesday, raising the toll in the latest raids in a region where herders and farmers often clash...
The separate countrywide half-day work abstention programme by assistant teachers of the government primary schools and teachers of secondary-level schools under the monthly pay order system was observed sporadically on Thursday demanding pay hike and protesting at attacks on teachers...
Two people were killed in separate wild elephant attacks in Jhenaigati upazila of Sherpur Tuesday night...
WOMEN from all walks of life gathered on May 16 in a solidarity march demanding equality, dignity and justice at a time when democratic transformation of the state and society is said to be the national priority. The rally was organised in the context of recurring attacks on women in public places, especially after the targeted attack on members of the women鈥檚 affairs reforms...
Russia and Ukraine traded a barrage of drone strikes overnight on Wednesday, in attacks that killed two in Kyiv and forced Moscow to shut major airports hours before a swathe of foreign leaders was to arrive...
The global system of law and human rights is under threat from a 鈥榤ultiplicity of assaults鈥� which have accelerated since US president Donald Trump鈥檚 return to power, Amnesty International said on Tuesday in its annual report...
Human Rights Watch accused Israel on Wednesday of 鈥榠ndiscriminate鈥� attacks on civilians during its recent war with Hezbollah, saying two deadly strikes in east Lebanon should be investigated as war crimes...
Russia launched a wave of aerial attacks on Ukraine on Monday in an abrupt end to a fragile 30-hour Easter truce between the two sides...
Several hundred villagers in Karnaphuli upazila of Chattogram blocked roads, protesting the authorities鈥� 鈥榝ailure鈥� to curb recurring elephant attacks, on Thursday...
Protests against Israeli attacks on Palestine continued across the country on Friday as political parties and student groups demanded action against the violence.
Sudan鈥檚 paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed at least 50 people in Khartoum during the past week, rescuers said Wednesday, as fighting with the army for control of the capital intensifies...
The interim committee of the Bangladesh Economic Association expressed concern over a wave of attacks on its office...
A SERIES of attacks on and harassment of women and the government鈥檚 failure to attend to the issues are a worrying sign. A significant number of women, especially players, athletes, celebrities and sex workers, have been attacked by people and groups with Islamist bent, weaving a pattern of the right wing rearing its head in the absence of deterrent government action...
A SERIES of mob attacks on the police and their stations centring on attempts at snatching away the detained that have taken place recently, the latest having happened in Dhaka at night on February 4, are deplorable on a couple of counts. Such incidents taking place one after another harm law enforcement and the public perception about law enforcement. The...
ATTACKS on the police and police stations in different parts of the country in the past few weeks suggest a worrying law and order situation. The attacks were perpetrated by activists of different political parties, including the ousted Awami League. In a recent incident, activists of the Awami League attacked a police vehicle at Sujanagar in Pabna on February 2 and...
Leaders of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council on Thursday urged the interim government to take action against ongoing attacks on religious minorities across Bangladesh...
Global Sufi Organisation on Thursday made a four-point charter of demands including security for Sufi institutions and a judicial investigation into recent attacks on shrines...
THE attacks on the protests that national minority students held on January 15 and the attacks on a rally that mostly students held the next day in protest at the attacks on the January 15 protests are as unsavoury as equally outrageous. Students of national minorities, banded as the Aggrieved Indigenous Students and People, held protests at the...
Police have found that 1,234 incidents on the religious minorities were political in nature against a Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council claim that there were 2,010 incidents on the lives, properties and...
THE wholesale filing of cases in connection with murder of and attacks on protesters that took place in July鈥揂ugust and flaws in the filing of the cases stand to harm justice and allow perpetrators to escape unpunished. The police say that more than 2,500 cases have been filed until mid-November in connection with the murders and attacks during the uprising, noting that about 8,000 people have also...
Russia said on Monday its air defences had shot down eight ballistic missiles fired by Ukraine, amid heightened tensions over Kyiv鈥檚 use of Western-supplied long-range arms against Russia...
Israel鈥檚 army said Hezbollah fired around 160 projectiles into its territory from Lebanon on Sunday, with the militant group saying its attacks had targeted the Tel Aviv area and Israel鈥檚 south...
Theatre activists staged street plays protesting at attacks on a protest rally at a cultural programme organised by theatre troupe Aranyak Natyadal in front of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday...
The World Health Organization and some 50 countries issued a warning Friday at the United Nations about the rise of ransomware attacks against hospitals, with the United States specifically blaming Russia.
Russia and Ukraine traded drone attacks overnight, with Russian officials saying on Saturday that Ukrainian strikes had killed one person in the Belgorod border region...
Different political parties and organisations on Monday held separate rallies in Dhaka, protesting against Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Palestine.