Rapper Kanye West signaled he no longer supported US President Donald Trump and said he would enter the presidential race to win it, according to an interview.

Senegal’s Goree Island, which for centuries served as a way station in the Transatlantic slave trade, has changed the name of its Europe Square in response to the death of George Floyd in the United States and the global movement it inspired.

People who test positive for the coronavirus but refuse hospital treatment could face a prison sentence under a new regulation introduced in Italy’s northeastern region of Veneto.

US President Donald Trump had suffered emotional abuse from his father Fred Trump, a real-estate mogul, claimed Mary Trump, the president’s niece, in her tell-all new book, The Guardian reports.

Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average in June across much of permafrost-laden Siberia, with last month in a dead heat for the

At least 17 people have taken their own lives in the impoverished Gaza Strip this year and hundreds more have made suicide attempts, a Palestinian

China signed a global pact Monday to regulate arms sales that has been rejected by the United States, the Asian power’s UN ambassador said. The

The US drone strike that killed Iran’s top general Qasem Soleimani was “unlawful”, the United Nations expert on extrajudicial killings concluded in a

Foreign students must leave the United States if their school’s classes this fall will be taught completely online or transfer to another school with in-

The world is seeing a rise in diseases passed from animals to humans like the coronavirus, the United Nations has warned, calling on governments to take active measures to prevent future pandemics.

Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok yesterday announced it would pull out of Hong Kong within days, as global tech giants struggle to figure out how to operate in the city under sweeping new security rules imposed by Beijing.

Britain has identified 49 “notorious” individuals and organisations, 25 of them Russian, 20 Saudis and two top Myanmar generals, to be sanctioned

The World Health Organization acknowledges “evidence emerging” of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus, after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he tested positive for the novel coronavirus, adding in a television interview that he was in good health despite running a fever.

After Japan, it’s now Italy, which has suspended Biman’s special chartered flights to and from the European country after several Bangladeshi passengers on yesterday’s flight tested positive for Covid-19 despite having documents certifying that they had tested negative and were safe to travel.

New Zealand police and security services were warned of a threat against another mosque for the same day that a gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch in 2019, an Islamic women’s group told an inquiry into the shooting massacre.

The United States said Monday it would not allow foreign students to remain in the country if all of their classes are moved online in the fall because of the coronavirus crisis.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is reviewing a report urging it to update guidance on the novel coronavirus after more than 200 scientists, in a letter to the health agency, outlined evidence the virus can spread in tiny airborne particles.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has alleged that the 27 Bangladeshis in Vietnam who were demanding to be repatriated had “occupied Bangladesh mission in Hanoi” on July 2.

China has withdrawn its troops by at least a kilometre in the tense Galwan river valley in eastern Ladakh, where 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a deadly brawl with Chinese troops on June 15, Indian sources said yesterday.