Category: International

Bangladesh is observing a national day of mourning as the funeral was held for Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent leader of its 2024 student-led uprising, after his death triggered two days of protests across the country.Tens of thousands of people poured into the area surrounding Bangladesh’s parliament house in the capital, Dhaka, before Hadi was […]

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 17 years in prison after a Pakistani court found them guilty of illegally retaining and selling valuable state gifts.The sentence, handed down on Saturday, capped a years-long saga that saw the duo accused of selling various gifts – including jewellery […]

The United States military “hit the ISIS [ISIL] thugs in Syria”, President Donald Trump has said, a week after two US soldiers and an interpreter were killed in Syria’s Palmyra city.In a speech Friday evening in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Trump said he “ordered a massive strike on the terrorists that killed our three great […]

Protests continued to take place in Bangladesh on Friday (December 19) afternoon, a day after they erupted in response to the death of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi and morphed into violence targeting newspaper houses, a prominent cultural organisation as well as an Indian consulate.Hadi, who was a prominent face of the 2024 protests that […]

Ahead of the C5+1 meeting of Central Asian states and Japan this weekend, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev arrived in Tokyo to meet with representatives of Japanese businesses.Overall, the countries signed more than 40 documents totalling over €3 billion in energy, digitalisation, mining and transport.Notable agreements include Rakuten Group’s biotechnologies for cancer treatment and joint project […]

India and Oman inked a free-trade agreement on Thursday (December 18) during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Muscat, with New Delhi claiming to have secured near-universal duty-free access to the Omani market.The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) signed by Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal and his Omani opposite number Qais bin Mohammed […]

Washington, DC – The United States has issued a new round of sanctions against staff members at the International Criminal Court, citing a recent ruling blocking Israel’s effort to halt a Gaza war crimes investigation.Thursday’s sanctions target two judges: Gocha Lordkipanidze of Georgia and Erdenebalsuren Damdin of Mongolia.In a statement, US Secretary of State Rubio […]

Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – With a pale face and unrelenting tears, Eman Abu al-Khair sits inside her tent, clutching a small bag of her infant’s clothes. Her newborn had died of hypothermia the day before.The devastated mother, 34-years-old, still cannot believe she lost her baby, Mohammed, alive for just 14 days. Amid the devastation […]

The legislative assembly in the south-western Indian state of Karnataka on Thursday passed a bill to criminalize hate speech — despite protests from members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s conservative BJP party who form the opposition in the state.According to The Times of India, the “Karnataka Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention) Bill” broadly defines […]

A video showing a top minister pulling down the hijab of a Muslim woman during a government event has caused widespread outrage and condemnation across India.Nitish Kumar, chief minister of the eastern state of Bihar, was seen removing the veil of the woman when she was being handed an appointment letter as doctor of alternative […]