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Refugee advocates hold signs as they protest against the detention of asylum seekers being held at Australian-run offshore detention centers located on Papua New Guinea`s Manus Island, and the South-Pacific island of Nauru, in central Sydney. Reuters

Offshore detention survivors decry UK's Rwanda scheme

Britain's plan to send migrants and asylum seekers to Rwanda has left survivors of a similar scheme in Australia wondering why the "failed" policy that shattered their lives is being revived elsewhere

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky appears on a screen as he speaks in a video conference during a special plenary session of the European Parliament focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on 1 March, 2022

Russia-Ukraine war Zelensky hails EU backing as fierce battles rock Donbas

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky hailed Brussels' support for Kyiv's European Union bid as a historic achievement, as "fierce battles" raged again in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region

A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows Britain's Home Secretary Priti Patel gesturing as she gives a statement concerning the government's plan to send migrants and asylum seekers who cross the Channel to Rwanda, in the House of Commons, in London, on 15 June, 2022

UK slams European court ruling on Rwanda as 'politically motivated'

Britain's interior minister Priti Patel suggested in an interview published on Saturday that a European court's intervention to stop a deportation flight to Rwanda was politically motivated

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen at a press conference on the EU membership applications by Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Friday.

EU backs Ukraine's 'European dream' as Russia cuts gas supplies

All 27 leaders have to agree to the candidacy, but the heads of the bloc's biggest members -- France, Germany and Italy -- gave full-throated support to the idea

Joint engagement towards a green and just energy transition in Bangladesh

Team Europe Initiative Joint engagement towards a green and just energy transition in Bangladesh

On 14 June, the Team Europe Initiative on Green Energy Transition (TEI GET) engaged in a field visit to 3 renewable energy projects. The visit was attended by Germany and the European Union, as TEI ...

Britain's Home Secretary Priti Patel listens during a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on 14 June, 2022

UK Rwanda asylum-seeker flight cancelled after European court ruling

A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday, in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government

EU brings relief to those affected by flash floods in northeastern Bangladesh

EU brings relief to those affected by flash floods in northeastern Bangladesh

The European Union is allocating €200,000 (over 19 million Bangladeshi taka) to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to families affected by the flash floods in North Eastern Bangladesh. The aid ...

Smoke and dirt rise in the city of Severodonetsk during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops at the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on 2 June 2022

Russia using ‘all its power’ to capture eastern city: Ukraine

Tens of thousands of people have been killed, millions forced to flee and towns turned into rubble since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an all-out assault on his pro-Western neighbour on 24 ...

Former Danish prime minister and leader of the party Moderates Lars Loekke Rasmussen(L) and leader of the party Liberal Alliance Alex Vanopslagh take part in a party leader discussion on Danish television in Copenhagen, on 31 May, 2022

Denmark votes on joining EU’s common defence policy

Traditionally eurosceptic Denmark votes Wednesday in a referendum on whether to overturn its opt-out on the EU’s common defence policy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (L) and President of the European Council Charles Michel give joint press during a special meeting of the European Council at The European Council Building in Brussels on 31 May, 2022

EU leaders ban most Russian oil, as Moscow advances in Donbas

European Union leaders agreed late Monday to ban more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports, tightening economic screws on the country even as Moscow’s forces made gains in the eastern Donbas region ...

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Bangladesh wants fair prices for its products in European market

Bangladesh has reiterated the need for ensuring fair prices for its products in the European market, especially in view of the investment being made in “safer and greener” factories

Model of LNG tanker is seen in front of Finland's flag in this illustration taken on 19 May 2022

Russia halts gas supplies to Finland

Finland, along with neighbouring Sweden, this week broke its historical military non-alignment and applied for NATO membership

Bangladesh and the EU delegates held their 10th Joint Commission meeting in Brussels on 20 May 2022

10th Joint Commission meeting EU raises concerns regarding rights situation, issues of civic space

The EU also raised concerns regarding the issue of freedom of expression offline and online, notably in the framework of the Digital Security Act

The 156 metres Dilbar superyacht owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, lies in the Blohm & Voss dock in the harbour in Hamburg, Germany on 3 March, 2022

EU exploring ways to use Russian oligarchs’ frozen assets to rebuild Ukraine

Von der Leyen also said she favoured coupling the long-term reconstruction of Ukraine with reforms needed for it to join the European Union

(L-R) Tom Miscioscia, Ashfika Rahman, Charles Whiteley, M Francois Grosjean, Kamalika Bose, Shayer Ghafur

Learning from Puran Dhaka Dhaka's tangible and intangible heritage at risk

The cost of growth in Dhaka is all too often livability and here Old Dhaka is paying the price

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