LONDON: A woman who left Britain to marry a fighter of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) group when she was a teenager began her appeal against the revocation of her citizenship in a UK court on Tuesday. A lawyer for Shamima Begum, 24, told the Court of Appeal in London that the Home Office had failed to consider its legal ...

The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Wednesday that 6,546 people have been killed in the territory since the outbreak of war with Israel. The death toll includes 2,704 children. A total of 17,439 people have also been wounded since the conflict erupted on October 7.

Australia beat Netherlands by 309 runs in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 match at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Wednesday. It registered the biggest victory, by margin of runs, in the history of the ODI World Cup. The previous record was also held by Australia, which beat Afghanistan by 275 runs at Perth in the 2015 edition of ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the global leaders to stop war and restore mutual respect among the nations for ensuring peace and progress. “Human connectivity is the lifeline for peace and progress. We must put an end to wars, conflicts, and the arms race,” she said. The prime minister came up with the statement while addressing the opening ...

Balaganj (Sylhet) Correspondent : Police recovered the floating body of an unidentified man from the Kushiara river at Balaganj upazila in Sylhet district on Wednesday. The identities of the deceased, aged around 25-26, could not be known immediately. Locals saw the body in the river near Balaganj Bus Station Kheyaghat and informed police around 9 am, said officer-in-charge of Balaganj ...

Three loan and grant agreements on Wednesday were signed among Bangladesh, European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission (EC) involving EUR 407 million to support renewable energy sector of Bangladesh at Brussels in Belgium, reports BSS. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with the EC President Ursula von der Leyen and EIB President Werner Hoyer witnessed the signing of ...

Derai ( Sunamganj) Correspondent : A man was reportedly killed and at least 10 others were injured in a gunfight between two groups at Derai upazila in Sunamganj district on Wednesday. The incident happened at Pukidor village under Jagdal union of the upazila in the morning. The deceased was Dulal, son of Alim Uddin, a resident of that village. According ...

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group held talks on Wednesday in Beirut with senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad figures in a key meeting of three top anti-Israel militant groups amid the war raging in Gaza, reports Associated Press. In neighboring Syria, meanwhile, state media said an Israeli airstrike hit the international airport in the northern city of Aleppo on ...

A former parliamentary staff member has described how “physical, emotional and psychological abuse” by the MP he worked for left him a “broken shell of the young man I once was”. Peter Bone was suspended as a Conservative MP after an investigation found he had bullied and was sexually inappropriate around the individual. The MP’s ex-assistant told the BBC the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the European Union (EU) to give Bangladesh the GSP+ facilities to support the country in its development efforts following the LDC graduation in 2026. “I hope that the EU will offer GSP+ to Bangladesh to support our development following our LDC graduation in 2026,” she said in a statement at the signing ceremony ...