AFP: Six people have died of heatstroke in Tokyo as Japan swelters under a rare rainy season heatwave, prompting authorities to issue a flurry of health warnings. Over the weekend, the central Shizuoka region became the first in Japan to see the mercury reach 40 degrees Cel ...বিস্তারিত
AFP:Argentina's President Javier Milei raised the ire Monday of his counterparts on South America's Mercosur bloc for snubbing their summit just one day after attending a far-right gathering in Brazil. Brazil's leftist President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, with whom ultra-li ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Troops in India-administered Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday hunted for gunmen who ambushed an army convoy a day earlier, with the defence minister raising the toll of soldiers killed to five. Rajnath Singh said he was "deeply anguished" over the "loss of five of our brav ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Haitian police will launch operations very soon against powerful gangs terrorizing the country, newly appointed chief Rameau Normil vowed Monday, alongside the leader of a Kenyan contingent deployed to help. "One day people are going to wake up and see that the bandits ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Embattled US President Joe Biden hit the campaign trail Sunday seeking to reassure voters he was up for a grueling reelection fight, even as more top Democrats reportedly joined the chorus urging him to quit the race. The 81-year-old remained defiant as he hop-scotched ...বিস্তারিত
AFP:As the first projections showed the left in the lead of France's parliamentary polls, against all expectations, a large crowd of left-wing activists erupted in joy in Paris. "I'm really happy, there's this crazy energy and I'm getting the chills," said Marie Delille, a ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Ethiopian forces have committed "widespread attacks amounting to war crimes against medical professionals, patients, and health facilities" in the conflict-torn Amhara region, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The northern region was under a state of emergency unti ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio on Tuesday promulgated a law banning child marriage in a country where hundreds of thousands of girls are married before turning 18. "Freedom has come for our women," Bio said during a ceremony organised by feminist groups and we ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Kazakhstan, the Kremlin said Wednesday, where he will attend a meeting of Shanghai alliance nations in the capital Astana. The nine-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which encompasses a vast stretch of the g ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Iranians will vote on Friday in a presidential runoff pitting the reformist Masoud Pezeshkian against ultraconservative anti-Western former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili. Around 61 million Iranians are eligible to cast ballots in the election, which was called after ...বিস্তারিত
