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Dhaka: Subsequent to the assurance given by the Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi during his visit to Bangladesh on August 6-7, the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka started issuing visas to Bangladeshi students on Tuesday. The Chinese Embassy issued a...

Bamako: Mali received several military planes and helicopters from Russia during an official ceremony on Tuesday, a Sputnik correspondent reported.Mali received L-39 and Su-25 fighter jets as well as Mi-24P and Mi-8 attack helicopters and CASA C-295 tactical transport...

Mar-a-Lago(US): Former US President Donald Trump compared the FBI's "raid" on his Florida home to the Watergate scandal amid the January 6 Capitol attack hearing underway while US national security experts called the search "unprecedented".Trump said FBI agents on...

Washington: The administration of US President Joe Biden announced that the United States will provide Ukraine with 1 billion US dollars worth of additional security assistance, the largest one-time weapons package since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.According...

Moscow: Russia has temporarily withdrawn its facilities from inspections under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the country's foreign ministry said in a statement Monday."Russia officially informed the United States ... that our country was temporarily...

Beijing: China rejected on Monday Japan’s accusations of firing missiles into its exclusive economic zone during an exercise off Taiwan, saying they were Chinese waters."We firmly reject Japan’s false and ungrounded criticism," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said during...

Dhaka: Information and Broadcasting Minister of Bangladesh Hasan Mahmud said, China is our friendly country and our major development partner. A friendly country can make any offer. Our foreign policy is not enmity with anyone, but friendship with all....

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said he hoped international inspectors will be allowed access to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after both Ukraine and Russia accused each other of shelling the site, prompting grave warnings.Zaporizhzhia, in...

Gaza: A ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants has come into effect after three days of violence that left 43 people dead.Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) militants said the truce began at 11.30 pm local time, after talks moderated by...

Bogota: Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called for a fresh global strategy to combat illegal drug trafficking.Speaking at his inauguration on Sunday, the country's first ever left-wing leader declared the "war on drugs" a failure, a BBC report...