Thu 12 June 2025: Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, former land minister, was featured in Al Jazeera’s investigation, The Minister’s Millions. The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen properties in the United Kingdom owned by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, Bangladesh’s former Minister of Land, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can reveal. The move follows legal requests from Bangladesh authorities […]
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Tue 10 June 2025: Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia. The 23-meter (75-foot) monument was erected in 1975 when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet Union. Photos appeared online Saturday showing the statue flat on the ground after being […]
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Tue 10 June 2025: More than a month has passed since the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, deep in the restive terrain of Indian-occupied Kashmir. Yet, the region has not exhaled. That attack was the spark; the explosion was narrowly averted—this time. Fighter jets scrambled, missiles were mobilized, and once again the world held its […]
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Tue 10 June 2025: California resident shipped at least three containers of guns bound for North Korea, according to prosecutors. A Chinese man living illegally in the United States has pleaded guilty to exporting guns, ammunition and other military items to North Korea at the direction of Pyongyang, the US Department of Justice has said. […]
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Sun 08 June 2025: India’s recent military operation against Pakistan has failed to achieve its strategic objectives while exposing critical vulnerabilities and strengthening China-Pakistan cooperation. The subcontinent now teeters on the edge of a devastating conflict with China holding the keys to escalation control. During a Bloomberg interview at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Chief […]
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Sat 07 June 2025: A new strain of coronavirus discovered in China has raised concerns that it could cause a global pandemic due to its potential to mutate and infect humans. Named HKU5-CoV-2, this variant is capable of infecting more animal species than the COVID-19 virus, increasing the risk of cross-species transmission. The virus was first discovered in China […]
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Fri 06 June 2025: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he will attend the Group of Seven leaders summit in Canada this month after receiving an invitation from the new Canadian premier. “Glad to receive a call from Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada,” Modi said in a statement posted on social media platform X […]
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Fri 06 June 2025: Japan saw a record low fertility rate last year, dropping to 1.15, down 0.05 points from 2023, government data showed, as the number of babies born has fallen for nine consecutive years in the country. The births dropped below 700,000 for the first time since statistics were first compiled in 1899, […]
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Thu 05 June 2025: It is rather strange (and sad) that a fortnight before the big meet of G7 nations in Canada, there is no invitation sent to Modi. It is pretty clear now that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will probably not join the elite G7 meeting in Alberta, Canada, scheduled from June 15 to 17. Alberta […]
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Thu 05 June 2025: The warning from China’s embassy in the Philippines follows criticism from a top EU official about Beijing’s conduct. China has told the European Union to stop “provoking trouble” in the South China Sea after EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas expressed concerns about Beijing’s coercive activities in the strategically important waterway. […]
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