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Bangladesh will elect a new president on August 20, the Election Commission announced on Thursday, two weeks after Mohammed Shahabuddin resigned citing health complications. Parliament members will vote between 2 pm and…
The Hindu has published a quiz marking 81 years since the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War. The attacks took place on August…
India’s maritime regulator says 15 Indian seafarers were killed and two remain missing in 57 incidents across West Asia and the Black Sea over the past three months. The Directorate General of…
US airlines are seeking clearer rules as Immigration and Customs Enforcement expands arrests at airports, The Wall Street Journal reports. Southwest rebuffed an ICE officer who tried to board a Dallas flight…
Abdul El-Sayed, a 41-year-old epidemiologist and Rhodes Scholar, won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary on August 6th, defeating six-term incumbent Haley Stevens by fewer than 15,000 votes. Outside groups supporting Stevens, including the…
Ukraine struck refineries in Russia’s Bashkortostan and Yaroslavl regions in overnight attacks, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday. The sites are more than 1,300 km and nearly 700 km from the front…
The US Navy's proposed Trump-class nuclear-powered guided missile battleship programme could cost an estimated $275 billion for 15 vessels, according to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report. The lead ship alone…
June Rose Hood, a 90-year-old woman from Harford, Cheshire, has been identified as the mystery knitter leaving toys for village children. For two years, children found bears, lambs and dogs in zip-lock…
China has lodged a formal protest against Japan’s new defence white paper, which calls Beijing Tokyo’s “greatest strategic challenge”. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jing accused Japan of repeating the “China threat”…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will take all necessary action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Livemint reports. His statement followed alleged remarks attributed to Ahmad Vahidi,…
