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International

Sri Lanka declares emergency as cyclone toll hits 132

Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency on Saturday and appealed for international assistance as the death toll from heavy

Ukrainian team headed to US for talks on plan to end war: Zelensky

A team of Ukrainian negotiators was on Saturday headed to the United States for talks on Washington’s plan to end

Hong Kong anti-corruption watchdog arrests 8 over deadly fire

Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog said it arrested eight people on Friday in connection with a deadly housing estate fire that

Trump says to ‘permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries’

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he planned to suspend migration from what he called “third world countries,” a day

Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians in West Bank amid surrender claims

Israeli forces on Thursday shot dead two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender, prompting

Trump told Japan’s PM to lower the volume on Taiwan, WSJ reports

US President Donald Trump called Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi this week and advised her not to provoke Beijing on

Procedure of selecting, appointing next UN chief

Former UNGA president Peter Thomson renewed in September 2016 the commitment his predecessor Mogens Lykketoft had made the year before

Hong Kong residential building fire kills 14, traps dozens

A massive fire ripped through multiple high-rise residential blocks in Hong Kong’s northern Tai Po district on Wednesday, killing at

Dhaka-Karachi flights to begin from December

Direct flights between Dhaka and Karachi are set to launch in December, with Mahan Air operating three services per week,

‘Bangladesh extradition request for Hasina under review,’ responds India

India is currently assessing Bangladesh’s request to extradite former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has been living in India since