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Seoul:  North Korea fired a barrage of short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea Thursday, despite a recent olive branch offered by US President Donald Trump, who signalled a willingness to reengage with the North's leader Kim Jong-un. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said...

Dhaka: India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Dinesh Trivedi, Thursday assured that New Delhi would take all necessary steps following the deaths of Bangladeshi nationals in a hotel fire in Kolkata, local media reported. “It's very sad. We will certainly do whatever needs to be done,”...

Dhaka: Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, a longtime secretary general of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and a close ally of former premier Khaleda Zia, was Thursday elected as the country's new President in the first contested poll for the post in 35 years. The...

Kyiv: Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the surrounding region with scores of missiles and drones in a nighttime aerial attack that lasted for hours and killed at least 14 people, officials said Thursday. Moscow's forces have in recent months intensified their ballistic missile...

Dhaka: The possibility of Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's visit to India next month for BRICS Summit remains slim unless an appropriate environment based on mutual trust is created, along with a dignified invitation from New Delhi, his Foreign Affairs Adviser Humaiun Kobir has said....

Seoul: South Korea said North Korea fired an unidentified projectile off the North's east coast, the Yonhap News Agency reported, citing South Korea's military as saying the launch happened on Thursday. The reported launch happened a day after the powerful sister of North Korean leader...

London: Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have decided to move back to the UK with their two children later this month but will remain non-working members of the royal family, according to UK media reports. Harry, the younger son of King Charles III,...

Islamabad: Pakistan has sought a USD 10 billion facility from the US to strengthen its foreign exchange position and reassure international investors, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has said, as the cash-strapped country seeks to reduce its dependence on repeated emergency financing from friendly countries. Aurangzeb...

New Delhi/ Kabul: Continuing with its humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, India Thursday delivered medicines and medical consumables to a government hospital in Kabul. Taking to X, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) posted: "Augmenting Afghanistan's healthcare! Reaffirming its enduring health partnership with the friendly people...

United Nations: In an implied criticism of Pakistan's role in dealing with terrorism, India has called for transparency in the Security Council listing and delisting groups as terrorist organisations, adding that it should not be driven by narrow political interests. "Presence in the Security Council...