Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni remarked yesterday to open "a new page" on the relationship between Rome and Dhaka, saying Italians are friends of Bangladesh.

Heavy monsoon rains swept across northern Thailand this month, triggering floods and landslides that have killed more than 20 people.

Beijing has stepped up its nuclear development in recent years, with the Pentagon last October warning China was developing its arsenal more quickly than the United States had anticipated.

Speaking at a Global Renewables Summit, Kenyan President William Ruto made the case for investing in renewables in Africa as part of the global pledge made at last year's COP28 summit to triple clean energy capacity by 2030.

It kept its 2025 forecast unchanged at 4.9 percent.

Iran rejected accusations that it is trying to kill Trump earlier this summer, shortly after a gunman opened fire at a rally in Pennsylvania, killing one person and wounding the presidential candidate.

Israel's offensive since Monday morning has killed 569 people, including 50 children, and wounded 1,835 in Lebanon

Most fled the weeks of fighting that culminated in the city's capture last month, and those who remain fear a return to the bloody violence.

Israel struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Iran-backed group attacked military facilities in northern Israel yesterday, increasing fears of a full-blown conflict after Lebanon suffered its deadliest day in decades.

Taiwan’s defence minister yesterday accused China of being the “number one country conducting daily cyberattacks” against the democratic island and denied allegations about Taipei-backed hackers targeting Beijing.

Russia hit a high-rise apartment block in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv during an attack with guided bombs yesterday, killing at least three people and injuring 15 more, with others feared trapped under rubble, local authorities said.

Sri Lanka’s new leftist president appointed his cabinet yesterday ahead of an expected snap parliamentary election as he prepares to renegotiate the bankrupt island nation’s unpopular International Monetary Fund bailout programme.

US President Joe Biden addressed world leaders at the United Nations for the final time yesterday, declaring that Russia’s war in Ukraine has failed and that a diplomatic solution between Israel and Hezbollah was still possible.

Leading United Nations officials demanded on Monday “an end to the appalling human suffering and humanitarian catastrophe” in the Gaza Strip, nearly a year into the Israeli offensive in the Palestinian enclave.

The fossilised remains of three mastodons from the Ice Age have been uncovered in the Peruvian Andes, raising questions as to how the behemoths arrived in the area.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday denounced a growing number of governments and other groups who feel they are “entitled to a get out of jail free card,” citing wars in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip and Sudan.

In response, Hezbollah said it launched dozens of missiles at a military base in northern Israel.

Suu Kyi, 78, is serving a 27-year prison sentence on charges ranging from corruption to not respecting Covid pandemic restrictions.

Asked about reports that Israel had warned people through phone messages ahead of the strikes, she said: "Whether you've sent out a warning you're telling civilians to flee, doesn't make it OK to then strike those areas, knowing full well that the impact on civilians will be huge..."

Dissanayake was elected president in the election held on Saturday.