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Dhaka: Bangladesh's President Abdul Hamid on Tuesday met with visiting Chinese State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe here and the two sides agreed to advance the bilateral military cooperation.During the meeting, Hamid said Bangladesh and China...

New Delhi: China is now working on allocating medical supplies from Chinese enterprises to meet the growing demand in India, including oxygen concentrators, the country's foreign ministry said on Tuesday."We are allocating and pushing forward Chinese companies in actively...

New Delhi: The government of Maldives has temporarily barred Indian tourists from staying at local inhabited island hotels and guesthouses.Indian tourists are also required to have negative PCR test for COVID-19 prior to entry into Maldives, the Maldives Marketing...

Jakarta: UN Special Envoy for Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener met the country's Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing on the sidelines of a regional summit in this city, informed a spokesperson of the international body on Monday.While addressing a press briefing...

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that US President Joe Biden’s decision to recognize the Armenian genocide is regretful, adding that these issues "should be decided by historians, not politicians.""Biden used an unfair phrase, not based...

Brussels: The European Union (EU) has brought pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to court over its failure to respect the commitment to deliver COVID-19 vaccine doses to its member states, said a European Commission spokesperson on Monday.The EU's executive arm launched...

New Delhi: The United States is considering a proposed waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID-related products, vaccines and therapeutics, a senior official of the Biden administration said."It was discussed briefly. We are looking at it," the official said...

Dhaka: Chinese State Councilor and Defence Minister Wei Fenghe arrived here on Tuesday.State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh Shahriar Alam received him at Shahjalal International Airport in the capital at 1145 hrs.During his brief visit, he is scheduled...

New Delhi: Australia on Tuesday announced a temporary ban on all direct flights from India amid an unprecedented surge in Coronavirus infections.The suspension, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, will last until May 15 and then the decision will be...

Amman: Jordan and Egypt on Sunday denounced all violent actions by extremist Israeli groups against the Palestinians in the Old City of Jerusalem, calling on Israel to stop such activities immediately.During a phone call, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi...