Arab countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt joined calls Tuesday for Hamas to disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Palestinian territory. Seventeen countries plus the European Union and Arab League threw their weight behind a seven-page text agreed at a United Nations conference on reviving the two-state solution ...

The number of people with liver cancer will nearly double worldwide by 2050 unless more is done to address preventable causes such as obesity, alcohol consumption and hepatitis, a study warned Tuesday. New cases of liver cancer — the sixth most common form of the disease — will rise to 1.52 million a year from 870,000 if current trends continue, ...

Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge. The decision came after the internet regulator urged the government last month to overturn the YouTube carve-out, citing a survey that found 37% ...

An Australian aerospace company, Gilmour Space Technologies, marked a milestone on Wednesday with the brief but symbolic test launch of its locally built orbital rocket, which carried a jar of Vegemite in its nose cone. The three-stage Eris rocket managed approximately 14 seconds of flight before crashing back to Earth in a plume of smoke. The 23-metre vehicle was launched ...

A Sylhet court has sentenced eight individuals to death, seven to life imprisonment, and 17 others to two years of rigorous imprisonment in connection with the 2021 murder of a schoolboy in Bishwanath upazila. The verdict was delivered on Wednesday by Judge Syeda Amina Farhin of Sylhet’s Additional District and Sessions Judge Court (3rd Court), who was serving as the ...

Trading at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) started positively on Wednesday, the fourth working day of the week, with the benchmark index showing early gains. Meanwhile, the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) recorded a slight decline. In the first two hours of trading, the DSEX, DSE’s key index, rose by 19 points. The Shariah-based DSES index gained 3 points, and the ...

Brazilian Lucas Ribeiro received four trophies, including player of the season, at the annual South African football awards ceremony in Johannesburg on Tuesday. In other African news, Al Ahly forward Wessam Abou Ali has moved to Major League Soccer and French coach Romain Folz has taken charge of Tanzanian champions Young Africans. South Africa A clean sweep for Ribeiro saw ...

Las Vegas will play host to the 2026 World Cup draw on December 5, according to multiple reports on Tuesday, with The Sphere serving as the ceremony site. ESPN and TUDN’Mexico said Vegas had been picked for the draw of the expanded 48-team event, which will be hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico. In all, 12 groups of ...

Bangladesh High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Abida Islam has been conferred with the prestigious ‘Women in Diplomacy’ Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to promoting women’s rights and gender equality in the diplomatic arena. The accolade, presented under the category “Champion for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality,” was handed over to the envoy at a ceremony held at ...

Bangladesh has given a green signal from the United States on reducing the 35 per cent reciprocal tariffs, said Commerce Secretary Mahbubur Rahman after a high-level meeting. He came up with this information on Wednesday morning through WhatsApp after the first day of the third round of trade talks with the United States inWashington. ”We had a fruitful discussion with ...