Bangladesh enforced a nationwide curfew to quash student-led demonstrations against government job quotas with military personnel and police patrolling the largely deserted streets of the capital, Dhaka. Dozens of people have been killed this week and several thousand are believed to have been injured, the
Israeli missiles slam into a UN school sheltering hundreds of displaced Gaza people with at least 17 killed and 80 wounded, the media office says, the latest attack inflicting mass civilian casualties in 24 hours. At least 16 Palestinians are killed in northern Gaza City
A car bomb has exploded outside a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, killing at least nine and injuring several others as patrons were watching the final of the Euro 2024 football tournament on TV, the government said. The al-Qaeda-linked armed group, al-Shabab, has claimed responsibility for
A Russian-installed court in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region has jailed an official from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission for “espionage”. The Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic sentenced Vadym Golda to 14 years in a penal colony
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has reached Islamabad for his official visit to Pakistan from July 11-12 2024. Ilham is visiting Pakistan on the invitation of Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif. Hopefully during the visit, he will hold meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari and
Russia again favors Republican Donald Trump as its preferred candidate to win the US presidential election this year, a US intelligence official has said. The official, briefing reporters on US election security, was careful not to name the former president and presumptive Republican nominee when
President Joe Biden opened the annual North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit in Washington on July 9, addressing leaders of the world’s “greatest military alliance” amid rising global geopolitical tensions. “NATO is stronger than it’s ever been in its history,” President Biden said in his
Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged world powers to help Russia and Ukraine resume direct dialogue as he held talks with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was in Beijing on a visit the European leader has branded as a “peace mission”. Xi and Orban’s
On July 8-17, the troops of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will hold a training camp in Mangistau region. The Birlestik-2024 military exercise will take place at the Oimasha training ground, in a sea area two kilometers from Cape Tokmak. This was reported by
The military leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have hailed a newly signed treaty as a step “towards greater integration” between the three countries, in the latest showing of their shift away from traditional regional and Western allies. During a summit in the Nigerien
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