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Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said another feather was added to the crown of Bangalee's pride and Bangladesh's development with the opening of country's first-ever metro rail, vowing to build a prosperous “Smart Bangladesh” by 2041...

Tokyo:The governments of the United States and Japan are coordinating the meeting of US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington on January 13, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with...

Baghdad:Iraqi firefighters have brought a massive fire at the Al-Kuwair oil refinery plant alongside the Gwer-Erbil highway in northern Iraq's Erbil province under control, Maj. Sarkot Karsh, the spokesman for the Civil Defense Directorate in Erbil, said.An eyewitness told...

Kiev: Nearly 6,900 civilians have been killed and more than 10,900 wounded in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian military operation, according to an updated UN Human Rights Office report released."From 24 February 2022... to 26 December 2022,...

Quito: Eight people have died in a road accident involving a bus in the western Ecuadorean province of Manabi, the local emergencies said."There was an accident involving the intercity bus on the 53rd kilometer of the Carmen-Chong Road," the...

Madrid: Spanish airline Air Nostrum canceled 37 flights as pilots from the Sepla union have gone on strike, media reported.The strike will continue on December 29 and 30, as well as on January 2 and 3, Spanish news agency...

Manila: The death toll from heavy rain and floods triggered by shear line in the Philippines climbed to 25 on Wednesday as the Southeast Asian country braces for more rainfall due to a low-pressure area moving towards the archipelagic...

Cairo: Egypt on Tuesday launched a new international bidding round for exploring natural gas and oil at 12 blocks in the Mediterranean and Nile Delta.The bid, put forward by the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS), comes as part...

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a global "wake-up call" on the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, which is observed annually on December 27."The world must come together. Covid-19 was a wake-up call," Guterres said in his message...

Taipei: Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen announced on Tuesday the extension of compulsory military service to one year from the current four months from January 1, 2024, amid the Chinese military exercises near the island, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported.The...