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Prime minister Sheikh Hasina

PM Hasina arrives in Washington DC

The prime minister and her entourage members arrived in Washington DC from New York by road on Saturday evening, said the prime minister's deputy press secretary KM Shakhawat Moon

Police officers detain a man in Moscow on 24 September, 2022, following calls to protest against the partial mobilisation announced by the Russian president

Russia stiffens penalty for surrender

Russia on Saturday toughened penalties for voluntary surrender and refusal to fight with up to 10 years imprisonment and replaced its top logistics general after a series of setbacks to its ...

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina delivers speech at the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN headquarters in New York on 23 September 2022

77th UNGA PM seeks effective role of UN on Rohingya repatriation

Uncertainty over repatriation has led to widespread frustration. Cross border organised crimes including human and drug trafficking are on the rise. This situation can potentially fuel ...

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina

77th UNGA PM Hasina to address UNGA focusing on ensuring world peace

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will address on Friday afternoon the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York and focus on ensuring peace and stability in the lives of people around the world

Denis, 9-years-old, waits in a wheelbarrow with a box holding 12 kilos (26 pounds) of basic food provisions enough to feed one person for one month during a food rations in the former frontline village of Lebyazhe on 22 September, 2022

Russia holds breakaway polls in Ukraine

The referendums in eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions have been roundly dismissed as a sham by Kyiv’s Western allies

Tourists, coming mainly from Russia, leave from the arrival terminal at Antalya International Airport in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, Turkey on 22 September, 2022

Some Russians flee Ukraine conscription as Moscow remains defiant

Prices for air tickets from Moscow soared above $5,000 for one-way flights to the nearest foreign locations, with most sold out for coming days. Traffic also surged at border crossings with Finland ...

Barbed wire fencing along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Tumbru, Bandarban

Bangladesh-Myanmar border situation UK to back Bangladesh in UNSC

Bangladesh has sought support from the global community to resolve the crisis along its border with Myanmar which emerged due to the fight between the Myanmar army and the Arakan Army in Rakhine state

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen

Bangladesh working to make 25 March as Int’l Genocide Day: Momen

The foreign minister made the remark through a video message at an international seminar ‘Remember and Recognise: The Case of Bangladesh Genocide of 1971’ which was held at the Human Rights Museum, ...

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi pays a courtesy call on prime minister Sheikh Hasina at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel on 20 September 2022

Rohingya crisis PM Hasina seeks UN’s intensified role in Rohingya repatriation

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen briefed the newspersons about the activities of the prime minister on the sidelines of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina addresses a ‘High Level Meeting of the UNGA Platform of Women Leaders Convened by the President of the General Assembly Csaba Korösi’ at Trusteeship Council in the United Nations Headquarters on 20 September 2022

PM Hasina stresses integration of women in decision-making process

Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh has ensured representation of women in all levels, from the top to the lowest tier of government

Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General

Education becoming ‘great divider’, warns UN Secretary-General

Guterres appealed to all countries to prioritise increasing spending per student even amid question marks over the global economy

A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on 4 June 2022 shows him greeting the crowd during a ceremony marking the death anniversary of his predecessor Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, south of the Iranian capital Tehran.

Iran to open UN fight to free billions frozen in US

Iran opens its legal battle before the UN's top court Monday to unfreeze billions of dollars in US assets, which Washington says must go to victims of terrorist attacks blamed on Tehran

Adiba Islam along with her mother takes part in a human chain in Dhaka’s Shahbagh on 10 December 2021. Adiba Islam’s father was one of many victims of enforced disappearance.

Human rights Allegations of enforced disappearance increase in Bangladesh

The committee also put emphasis on the responsibilities of the government to protect the families of the victims of enforced disappearance, rights activists and civic bodies from any threats

A member of Border Guard Police (BGP) patrols near the barbed wire fence in the Myanmar side of border while two Rohingya children look on. The picture was taken from the zero line along Tombru border in Ghundhum of Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari on 6 September 2022.

Shelling on border Bangladesh doesn’t want war with Myanmar, may go to UN if necessary: Home minister

Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said Bangladesh does not want a war with Myanmar and the country wants to solve problems through talks and if need be, it may go to the UN

Forensic technicians dig a grave in a forest on the outskirts of Izyum, eastern Ukraine on 16 September, 2022. Ukraine said on 16 September, 2022 it had counted 450 graves at just one burial site near Izyum after recapturing the eastern city from the Russians

Outrage as Ukraine finds mass grave near liberated Izyum

The discovery also came a day after Putin admitted that China, whose leader Xi Jinping was also attending the summit, had expressed “concerns” about the situation in Ukraine, which Russian forces ...

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