France, 14 other nations back Palestine state
Donald Trump announces 25% tariff on India, plus penalty
DHAKA: WikiLeaks Monday morning posted an additional 2,000 emails that appear to be from the account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta. This is the second hack in four days from WikiLeaks, which claims it has a trove of more than 50,000 emails from Podesta.
DHAKA: House Speaker Paul Ryan dealt his own party’s presidential nominee a withering blow Monday, telling fellow Republicans he will no longer defend Donald Trump and will instead use the next 29 days to focus on preserving his party’s hold on Congress. “The speaker is going to
DHAKA: Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier, has secured the third spot in a list of top 50 global airlines compiled by UK-based ‘Airfinance Journal’. ‘The Airline Top 50’ report evaluated the performance of 137 airlines based on a
DHAKA: Thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets of the capital, Sanaa, to protest after an air strike killed more than 140 people at a wake on Saturday. Demonstrators gathered outside the UN headquarters demanding an international investigation into the strike, blamed on the
DHAKA: Nigeria’s security agency says it has seized $800,000 in cash in raids targeting senior judges suspected of corruption. The DSS agency says the raids were carried out in recent days and several judges were arrested, reports the BBC. The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
DHAKA: The health of Thailand’s king, the world’s longest reigning monarch, is “not stable” palace officials have said, as he receives treatment for ongoing medical conditions. King Bhumibol Adulyadej is widely revered and seen as an arbiter in Thailand’s divided political
Politics in the USA changed Sunday night as the once sacred tradition of a presidential debate - where candidates typically trade barbs over their vision of the country's future - exploded into something quite chilling during the second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
DHAKA: A military helicopter has crashed in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province, killing all eight people on board. Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the Afghan defense ministry, said on Sunday (October 9) that five crew members and three army soldiers were killed, reports Al Jazeera.
DHAKA: A passenger train has derailed near New York, injuring dozens of people, US officials say. The incident occurred at New Hyde Park in Nassau County. The injuries are not said to be life-threatening, reports the BBC. The 12-carriage Long Island Rail Road train carrying some 600
DHAKA: US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he will never drop out of the race to be president. He would never let his supporters down, he added. Trump has been under pressure after a tape from 2005 of him making obscene comments and bragging about groping and kissing women
DHAKA: Hurricane Matthew has killed at least 10 people in the US as it is moving along the country’s south-east coast. Three people died in North Carolina, said Governor Pat McCrory, who called Matthew “a very, very serious” storm. In Georgia, three people died, including a
DHAKA: Nearly 900 people are known to have been killed by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti, with aid officials saying up to 90 percent of some areas have been destroyed. Some of the hardest-hit towns are yet to be reached by land, and there are fears more bodies will be found. Parts of
DHAKA: The White House on Saturday condemned a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a funeral home in Yemen that local health officials said killed at least 155 people. “US security cooperation with Saudi Arabia is not a blank check,” US National Security Council Spokesman Ned Price
DHAKA: President Barack Obama has formally eased long-standing sanctions on Myanmar. Obama issued the executive order weeks after meeting Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, reports the BBC. Myanmar’s access to trade benefits for poorer nations was suspended in 1989
Republican presidential runner of Donald Trump was forced to apologize over his obscene comments Donald Trump made about women in a 2005 videotape. In the video, posted by the Washington Post, Trump is heard telling TV host Billy Bush “you can do anything” to women “when
The UN has warned it could take days for the full impact of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti to emerge, as the death toll soars to more than 800. The death toll has doubled, and may rise, as rescue teams gain access to southern areas cut off by the storm, reports the BBC. The World Food
DHAKA: The number of people killed in Haiti by Hurricane Matthew has risen sharply into the hundreds, as coastal villages and towns began making contact with the outside world two days after being hit by the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade. Bodies started to appear late on
DHAKA: António Guterres was formally nominated by the UN Security Council as the organization’s 9th Secretary General. In the coming days his name will be given to the 193-member General Assembly for formal approval. Guterres, who was prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002,
DHAKA: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize in a competitive year with a record 376 candidates vying for the award. The five-member Norwegian committee announced its decision on Friday, the only one of six Nobel awards to be presented in Oslo and the one
The death toll in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade, has crossed 300. Some 50 people were reported killed in the town of Roche-a-Bateau alone, reports the BBC. The nearby city of Jeremie saw 80% of its buildings leveled. In Sud