The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is backing calls for a maximum workplace temperature as pressure grows on the government to protect workers from the impact of repeated heatwaves across the UK. The extreme heat has left people struggling to cope as temperatures in some workplaces climb above 40C, causing thousands of schools to close and hospital and transport systems ...

French lawmakers on Wednesday adopted a bill that will create a legal right to assisted dying for adults with incurable illnesses, capping an intense ethical and political debate. The legislation will, under strict conditions, allow a person who requests it to receive a lethal substance. The substance could be self-administered or, if the person is physically unable to do so, ...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched ballistic missiles at a US air base in Jordan. The military action was taken in retaliation for an alleged American strike near a children’s cancer facility in Iran. According to the IRGC, American troops utilized military facilities in Jordan to launch strikes against various Iranian targets, including the area near the hospital. In ...

Passengers travelling between Dhaka and Sylhet are set to benefit from a new non-stop intercity train service, with the government approving the launch of the “Tanguar Express” to ease growing demand on the busy route. Railways Minister Sheikh Rabiul Alam told parliament on Wednesday that the prime minister had approved the introduction of one pair of non-stop intercity trains on ...

Outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer travels to Ukraine on Thursday for his final visit to the war-torn country before leaving office next week. Starmer, set to depart Downing Street on Monday, was to hold talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky in the capital Kyiv, the British government said in a statement. The premier was expected to tell Zelensky that the ...

Up to 23.4 million additional children could fall into monetary poverty by the end of the year, as ongoing tensions in the Middle East and related shipping disruptions continue to have a damaging and potentially irreversible impact on children, according to a new analysis by UNICEF released yesterday (15 July). The Impact of the War in the Middle East on ...

The government has undertaken a comprehensive initiative to raise the country’s strategic fuel storage capacity to 90 days for further strengthening energy security and safeguarding the economy against global geopolitical and market uncertainties. “The government has undertaken the move to ensure uninterrupted industrial production and sustain economic growth even during disruptions in the international energy market,” Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday named a senior international official from Bangladesh, Rabab Fatima, as the new head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA. A career diplomat who served in several capitals before representing her country at the United Nations, Fatima is currently the global body’s high representative for the least developed countries, landlocked developing ...

The country is observing Historic July Martyrs’ Day on Thursday (July 16), commemorating those who lost their lives during the 2024 quota reform movement, which later evolved into a nationwide mass uprising. On that day, at least six people were killed, including Abu Sayeed, a student of the Department of English at Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, who was fatally ...

Two journalists were killed in a road accident early Thursday after a bus hit their motorcycle in the capital’s Uttara area while they were returning home after watching the Argentina-England FIFA World Cup semifinal. The accident occurred near the Jasim Uddin Bus Stand in Sector 3. The deceased were identified as Rabiul Alam Raju, a journalist of Praner Bangladesh, and ...