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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 ‘friend’.

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PM’s 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...

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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...

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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...

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Too little, too late

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 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’s very foundation as a settler colonial project...

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Pakistan FM to visit Dhaka April 27-28

Pakistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar is scheduled to come to Bangladesh on April 27 on a two-day visit...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Anti-Muslim hate speech surges in India

Hate speech in India targeting the country's religious minorities saw a ‘staggering’ surge in 2024, a US-based think tank said Monday.

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Modi’s BJP celebrates landslide New Delhi win

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that ‘development had won’ as his Hindu nationalist party took back control of the capital province Delhi in local elections...

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TRUMP’S GAZA ‘RIVIERA’ 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 ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip, forcibly displace its 1.8 million Palestinian residents and redevelop the territory into a luxury enclave he dubbed ‘the Riviera of the...

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Amit Shah vows to evict 'illegal Bangladeshis' in Delhi if BJP wins local polls

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's closest political ally has pledged to rid the capital of ‘illegal’ immigrants if his party wins looming elections, in a forceful appeal to his party's Hindu constituency. Interior minister Amit Shah said every unlawful migrant from neighbouring Bangladesh would be expelled from New Delhi ‘within two years’ if his party succeeded in next month's provincial polls.

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India’s ex-PM Manmohan Singh dies aged 92

India’s former prime minister Manmohan Singh died on Thursday aged 92 after he was admitted to hospital for an illness, the country’s leader Narendra Modi said....