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Dhaka: International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI), with the funding of the United States government, will send an independent and impartial Pre-Election Assessment Mission (PEAM) to Bangladesh.A six-member delegation and their support staff will visit Bangladesh...

Jerusalem: Israeli archaeologists have discovered two ancient farmhouses dating back about 1,200 years, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on Thursday.The farmhouses, from the early Muslim period, were discovered during excavations in the Negev desert city of Beer Sheva...

Washington: U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a new military aid package worth 325 million U.S. dollars for Ukraine, including more air defense, while the U.S. Congress is struggling to reach a compromise to avert a federal government...

Wellington: Experts call for caution as New Zealand has detected the highly mutated Covid-19 variant BA.2.86, known as "Pirola," in wastewater samples taken earlier this month."Pirola," the Omicron subvariant detected by the New Zealand Institute of Environmental Science and...

Beijing: At the invitation of Premier of the State Council Li Qiang, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda of Nepal will pay an official visit to China from Sept. 23 to 30, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning announced on...

Santiago: A total of 25 people were killed in traffic accidents during Chile's annual "Fiestas Patrias" independence celebrations from Sept. 15 to 19, Chilean authorities reported Wednesday.Eleven people died as a result of being run over, six from crashes,...

Dhaka: Bangladesh has suffered its worst day yet of the dengue this year as deaths of the disease reached the previous record on Wednesday.Bangladesh reported 3,015 new dengue cases and 21 new deaths on Wednesday, taking the tally to...

Seoul: South Korea's number of deaths hit a record high last year amid the continued Covid-19 pandemic, statistical office data showed on Thursday.The total number of deaths was 372,939 in 2022, up 17.4 percent from a year ago, according...

Baghdad: Four Islamic State (IS) militants were killed Wednesday in an operation in Iraq's western province of Anbar, the Iraqi military said.Based on intelligence reports and four days of tracking, Iraq's paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces carried out an ambush...

Dhaka: Tourist police chief additional DIG Habibur Rahman has been made the new commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).The Public Security Division of the Home Ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard on Wednesday.On October 10, last year,...