Prez signs order to gut staff at Voice of America, other US-funded media orgs
President Donald Trump’s administration on Saturday began making deep cuts to Voice of America and other government-run, pro-democracy programming, with the organisation’s director saying all VOA employees have been put on leave. On Friday night, shortly after Congress passed its latest funding bill, Trump directed his administration to reduce the...
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Judge stalls Trump’s 18th-century law to speed deportations
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Over 1 lakh people join protest rally in Belgrade against Serbia prez, govt
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Massive storm leaves at least 32 dead in US
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French-British blueprint doesn’t foresee deploying ‘mass’ of soldiers in Ukraine, says Macron
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Russia, Ukraine trade overnight aerial attacks
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B’desh HC upholds 20 students’ death penalty for lynching university mate
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59 dead, 150 hurt in North Macedonia nightclub fire
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SpaceX launches new crew to space station to replace NASA’s stuck astronauts
The replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts —Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — launched to the International Space Station on Friday night, paving the way for the pair’s return after nine long months. Wilmore and Williams need SpaceX to get this relief team to the space station before they can check...
Lebanon names new army chief, top security officials
Lebanon appointed a new army chief and heads of three security agencies on Thursday as the government seeks to firm up state authority, especially in the country's south, following the militant Hezbollah group's devastating war with Israel. The appointments also come after Lebanese political faction in January overcame a crippling, two-year...
UN secretary-general visitz Rohingya refugee camps, push for aid
UN Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Bangladesh on Thursday on a four-day visit to review the situation of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees amid the fear of aid cuts that could seriously affect them. Bangladesh's foreign affairs adviser, Touhid Hossain, received Guterres at Dhaka's main airport. Guterres's visit, which is his...
'We will just die in silence': US aid cuts hit Ethiopia's fragile Tigray region
As a displaced person in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, 76-year-old Haile Tsege is no stranger to hunger. During its war with Tigray fighters that devastated the region in 2020-2022, Ethiopian government restrictions on the rebellious region reduced aid flows to a trickle. Then in 2023, US and UN aid distributions of...
Bangladesh extends military's magistracy power
Bangladesh's interim government led by Muhammad Yunus on Thursday extended the magistracy power of the military forces for 60 more days for the third time amid a nationwide law and order situation. “Commissioned officers holding the rank of captain and above in the Bangladesh Armed Forces have been granted special executive...
Syria under Islamist group's rule
Syria's interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase. The country's interim rulers have struggled to exert their authority across much of the country since the Islamist former insurgent group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, led a...
Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif visits Balochistan after BLA insurgents attack train
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday visited the restive Balochistan province to review the law and order situation and to express solidarity with the people there following the Jaffar Express hijacking incident in which 21 civilians and four soldiers were killed. Sharif’s visit comes a day after security forces killed...
