President Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said US sanctions over Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 missiles would be disrespectful to a Nato ally, after sources said Washington was poised to take the step likely to further strain relations.

When the Paris Agreement on climate change was finalized after two weeks of fraught negotiations and years of past failures, diplomats hugged and shed tears of joy. They had haggled over verb tenses, cut deals, and in the end, brought 196 countries into the accord.

For the first time in history manmade materials now likely outweigh all life on Earth, scientists said in research detailing the “crossover point” at which humanity’s footprint is heavier than that of the natural world.

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, condemning Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s comments after an attack on BJP chief JP Nadda’s convoy, asked her to withdraw them and warned her against “playing with fire”.

Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on Thursday urged the US Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit filed by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to undo President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory, saying the case has no factual or legal grounds and offers “bogus” claims.

The United States deployed two B-52 long-range bombers over the Gulf on Thursday in a show of force directed at Iran as Washington moves to cut its ground-level military presence in the region.

Britain is now more likely to leave the European Union’s orbit on Dec 31 without a trade deal than with an agreement, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the bloc’s 27 national leaders yesterday, an EU official said.

The UN-backed Lebanon Tribunal yesterday sentenced a Hezbollah member convicted of conspiring to kill former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri in a 2005 bombing to five terms of life imprisonment.

Drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi said today that their potential Covid-19 vaccine won’t be ready until late next year because they need to improve the shot’s effectiveness in older people.

A locked-down pandemic-struck world cut its carbon dioxide emissions this year by 7%, the biggest drop ever, new preliminary figures show.

At least two people were wounded today in an explosion caused by a suspected suicide bomber outside a local Federal Security Service building in Russia’s North Caucasus.

US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been chosen as Time magazine's 2020 "Person of the Year," the publication announced Thursday.

The European Union and Germany have signed an agreement to provide EUR 113 million (nearly Tk 1,145 crore) to Bangladesh’s “Social Protection Programme for Unemployed and Distressed Workers in the RMG, Leathergoods and Footwear Industries.”

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that “vaccine nationalism” is moving “at full speed,” leaving poor people around the globe watching preparations for inoculations against the coronavirus in some rich nations and wondering if and when they will be vaccinated.

Some 270 million people worldwide - equivalent to the combined populations of Germany, Britain, France and Italy - stand on the brink of starvation, the head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme said yesterday upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah bemoaned the “murder of democracy” late Wednesday night as he lashed out at the BS Yediyurappa government - whom he labelled a “coward” - after the Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle Preservation (Amendment) Bill was passed by the Legislative Assembly.

President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, a focus of attacks from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies during the campaign for the White House, said on Wednesday the U.S.

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor announced Wednesday she was shutting down a preliminary probe into alleged war crimes committed by British soldiers after the US-led invasion in Iraq.

The European Union’s executive yesterday laid out contingency plans for a ‘no-deal’ Brexit at the end of the year to limit disruption to air traffic, and road and rail travel after talks between British and EU leaders failed to break an impasse.

The United States Senate has defeated an effort to block the Trump administration’s sale of $23bn in advanced fighter jets and drones to the United Arab Emirates.