China yesterday successfully put into orbit its final Beidou satellite, completing a navigation network years in the making and setting the stage to

US President Donald Trump will prolong a ban on US employment permits to year-end and broaden it to include H-1B visas used widely in the tech

Investment funds managing close to $4 trillion in assets called on Brazil yesterday to halt deforestation of the Amazon in an open letter warning that biodiversity loss and carbon emissions pose a “systemic risk” to their portfolios.

Muslims expressed disappointment yesterday at Saudi Arabia’s decision to scale back this year’s hajj pilgrimage, but many accepted it was necessary as the kingdom battles a major coronavirus outbreak.

China and India have agreed to reduce tensions a week after their deadliest clashes in over 50 years on the disputed Himalayan border left 20 Indian troops dead in brutal hand-to-hand fighting.

Police in North Macedonia say 64 Bangladeshi migrants have been found in a truck on a highway near the country’s border with Greece.

Saudi Arabia has announced to hold the Hajj this year with a “very limited number of pilgrims of various nationalities who already reside in the kingdom” as the country moves to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

Malaysia will not hire any new foreign workers until the year’s end, the country’s leading newspaper The Star has reported quoting its Human Resources Minister M Saravanan.

Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) yesterday denounced Egypt’s warning of military intervention in Libya, labelling it

The Taliban killed at least 291 Afghan security personnel over the past week, a top government official said yesterday, accusing the insurgents of

An Indian soldier was killed as Pakistani troops opened fire and lobbed mortar shells on forward areas along the Line of Control, the de facto border

A man held on suspicion of stabbing three people to death in a British park at the weekend was known to the security services, media reported

Former US national security advisor John Bolton said Sunday he thinks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “gets a huge laugh” over US counterpart

New York City announced Sunday it would remove a statue of former US President Theodore Roosevelt long criticized as a racist and colonialist

Europeans are enjoying the gradual easing of coronavirus lockdown measures, but in hospitals they are already preparing for the next wave of infections.

The United States and Russia yesterday met in Vienna for talks on their last major nuclear weapons agreement against a backdrop of growing tensions and differences over whether they see any value in arms control at all.

Indian and Chinese military commanders met to try to ease tensions at their disputed Himalayan border as the public mood hardened in India for a military and economic riposte following the worst clash in more than five decades.

“Mission accomplished!” That joyful declaration came from Juan Manuel Ballestero, an Argentine sailor who, unable to fly home from Portugal due to the pandemic, crossed the ocean alone in his modest sailboat to see his aging parents.

Bangladesh, being a major labour-exporting country, should raise its voice to realise the unpaid dues of the country’s migrant workers, many of whom have been repatriated arbitrarily in wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, migration experts and advocacy groups have said.

Three men, including a Bangladeshi, have been arrested for allegedly trafficking drugs in Bandar Sunway, Subang Jaya of Petaling District in Selangor, Malaysia.