Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the US elections brings hopes for democracy and governance globally, as well as for healing the scars of structural racism and inequality in American society, global affairs analysts have said.

Chinese Defence Minister Gen Wei Fenghe has suspended his visit to Dhaka that was scheduled for this week.

US President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, reflecting his stated desire to build out a diverse White House team as well as what’s expected to be a return to a more traditional press operation.

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his team are headed to Saudi Arabia and Qatar for talks in a region simmering with tension after the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist.

At least one Bangladeshi citizen is among a crew of 20 seamen, most of them Indian nationals, who have been detained by Houthi rebels in Yemen capital Sana’a since February this year.

Villagers in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state on Sunday buried 43 farmers killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants while security forces searched for dozens of people who are still missing.

A Singaporean woman, who was infected with the novel coronavirus in March when she was pregnant, has given birth to a baby with antibodies against the virus, offering a new clue as to whether the infection can be transferred from mother to child.

The US state of Pennsylvania’s supreme court dismissed another legal challenge to the election by supporters of President Donald Trump on Saturday, further reducing his already near-impossible odds of overturning the results.

A mysterious metal monolith found in the remote desert of the western United States, sparking a national guessing game over how it got there, has apparently disappeared, officials said.

Sixty-four migrants “including a pregnant woman and children” were rescued Saturday in the English Channel after their improvised boat found itself “in trouble” off Dunkirk, French authorities said.

The world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume said Saturday it would apply for an emergency licence for a coronavirus vaccine within two weeks, and that confusion over the efficacy would not delay its distribution.

Rockets launched from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region targeted the capital of Eritrea several hours after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared military operations in the region were over, diplomats told AFP yesterday.

Boko Haram fighters killed at least 70 farm workers and injured six in rice fields near the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday,

Claiming that there is “no pressure” on him from the military in running the government affairs, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday forcefully

Argentine justice officials are investigating the death of soccer star Diego Maradona and have ordered the search of properties of his personal doctor.

Iran was weighing its response Sunday to the killing of its top nuclear scientist, which it blames on arch-foe Israel, as his body was taken to Shiite shrines ahead of being buried.

The meet of the 57-member OIC’s foreign ministers has concluded in Niamey seeking fund for legal battle over Rohingya genocide, urging Muslim solidarity to fight Islamophobia and terrorism as well as retreating support to the principle of Arab initiative of the two-state solution over Palestine cause.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she has to pile up cash at home as she has been unable to open a bank account in the global financial centre since Washington sanctioned her shortly after Beijing imposed a national security law on the city.

Thai anti-government protesters have challenged King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s personal control over some army units to condemn the military’s role in politics.

Although babies of women infected with Covid-19 during their pregnancies have been born with antibodies, it remains unclear if this means the baby is immune to the coronavirus or how long the immunity would last.