Haiti has asked Washington and the UN for troops to secure its ports, airport and other strategic sites after the assassination of president Jovenel Moise opened a power vacuum in the crisis-hit Caribbean nation, an official said. 

Northrop Grumman Corp won a Nasa contract worth $935 million to develop living quarters for the US space agency’s planned outpost in lunar orbit, the weapons maker said on Friday. 

Police in India are investigating how dozens of Muslim women were offered for sale in fake “auctions” online without their knowledge, in a case the victims say illustrates growing Islamophobia across the country. 

Covid-19 is probably only a forerunner of increasingly dangerous pandemics in the future and governments need to find $75 billion over the next 5 years to prepare for them, a panel of experts told finance ministers of the Group of 20 rich countries on Friday. 

China criticized hasty withdrawal of troops by Washington as Afghan authorities yesterday prepared to retake a key border crossing seized by the Taliban in a sweeping offensive that the insurgents claim has helped capture a vast swath of the violence-wracked nation. 

A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was taken down in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, nearly four years after white supremacist protests over plans to remove it led to clashes in which a woman was run down by a car and killed.

A suicide car bomb targeting a government convoy exploded at a busy junction in Somalia's capital on Saturday, killing at least eight people, an eyewitness told Reuters.

Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) will establish “Bangabandhu Chair” at the University of Delhi to honour the Father of the Nation of Bangladesh and the 50th anniversary of the country’s Liberation War and Indo-Bangla diplomatic relations.

President Joe Biden on Friday named Peter Haas as the new nominee for US ambassador to Bangladesh, reports CNBC quoting a White House press release.

Eid-ul-Azha will be celebrated in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday (July 20), as the crescent of Dul Hijjah was not sighted on Friday evening, Arab News reports.

Haiti has requested US and UN security forces to help it protect key infrastructure like the airport and ports after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise by foreign mercenaries, a government minister said on Friday.

Eight suspected rebels and two Indian soldiers have been killed in a series of counterinsurgency operations in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said. 

Finance ministers representing the G20 large economies back a deal setting a global floor for corporate tax rates and will push to resolve outstanding issues on it by October, the latest draft of a joint communique said. 

The United States yesterday announced sanctions against 34 companies and other entities involved with China’s military and policy towards the Uyghur Muslim minority, and for facilitating exports to Russia and Iran.

Authorities in India’s southern Kerala region have issued a statewide alert after a case of the Zika virus was confirmed, officials said yesterday.

A British police officer yesterday admitted murdering Sarah Everard, whose killing sparked anger, protests and soul-searching across the country about what the authorities and society could do to stop male violence against women.

We did not go to Afghanistan to nation build. And it’s the right and the responsibility of the Afghan people alone to decide their future. US President Joe Biden

1940 - The Battle of Britain began in WWII when at least 70 German bombers attacked docks in south Wales.

An agreement on Ethiopia’s controversial Nile River dam is possible, the UN said Thursday, urging “trust, transparency and open engagement” as Egypt accused Addis Ababa of threatening its existence. 

A 28-member hit squad made up of Americans and Colombians assassinated President Jovenel Moise, Haitian police said Thursday, adding that eight were still at large as the country lurched into political chaos.