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- BIDA, police assure top foreign investors of full safety
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- CA Yunus leaves Dhaka for Doha
- BPA withdraws announcement to shut down egg-chicken farms
- Former Dhaka-5 MP Kazi Monirul arrested
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- Chief Adviser mourns death of Pope Francis
- Israeli forces killed 39 Palestinians in the past 24 hours
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- Zimbabwe still ahead despite Miraz taking five wickets
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- Davos meet founder Klaus Schwab steps down from WEF board
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Tariff War: China sends Boeing 737 back to US
A Boeing jet built for a Chinese airline returned to the manufacturers US production facility on Saturday, caught in the crossfire of retaliatory tariffs sparked by Trumps global trade war, reports CNN. Citing a Reuters witness, the media reported that the Boeing 737 MAX, which was meant for...

Trump says set to visit UK's King Charles in September
US President Donald Trump said Thursday he expected to meet King Charles III in Britain in September, on an unprecedented second state visit that London hopes will boost transatlantic ties. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer handed Trump an invitation from the monarch during a meeting in the...

Top Russian diplomat explains why Moscow trusts Donald Trump
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has explained why Moscow trusts Donald Trump over US President Joe Biden in handling the Ukraine conflict. In a recent interview with Kommersant, Lavrov pointed out that, unlike the European Union and the UK, Trumps administration sought to understand the root...

CBS and ’60 Minutes’ should ‘pay a big price’ for going after him: Trump
President Donald Trump bitterly attacked 60 Minutes shortly after the CBS newsmagazine broadcast stories on Ukraine and Greenland on Sunday, saying the network was out of control and should pay a big price for going after him. Almost every week, 60 Minutes ... mentions the name TRUMP in a...

Teen killed parents as part of Trump assassination plot: FBI
A high school student from Wisconsin killed his parents as part of a larger plot to assassinate US President Donald Trump, the FBI has said. Nikita Casap (17) has been charged with the killing of his mother, Tatiana Casap (35) and his stepfather Donald Mayer (51) who were found dead at their...

Trump replaces Obama portrait with painting of... himself
Donald Trump took his rivalry with Barack Obama to the walls of the White House Friday, replacing a portrait of the former US president with one of himself surviving an assassination attempt. The 78-year-old Republican moved the picture of the Democrat, the only Black US president, to the...

Prof. Yunus urges Trump to postpone tariffs on Bangladeshi exports
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has urged US President Donald Trump to defer the imposition of a 37 percent reciprocal tariff on Bangladeshi exports to the United States for a period of three months, reports BSS. In a formal letter, Prof Yunus appealed for the temporary suspension of the...

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 32 including women and children
Local Health Authority reported on Sunday that at least 32 people, including women and children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, reports AP. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to the United States to meet President Donald Trump to discuss the...

Trump’s tariffs to send US into recession: JP Morgan
JPMorgan Chase Co. has predicted that the United States economy will enter a recession this year, largely due to the impact of new tariffs announced by President Donald Trump, reported The Hill. In a note to investors released on Friday evening, JP Morgans chief US economist, Michael Feroli,...

Japan PM Ishiba says Trump tariffs 'national crisis'
Tariffs imposed on Japanese goods by US President Donald Trumps administration are a national crisis, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday as he prepared to hold cross-party talks on mitigating the impact, reports AFP/ BSS. Japanese firms are the biggest investors into the United...

Trump accuses Zelensky of ‘trying to back out’
US President Donald Trump accused the Ukrainian president of trying to back out of the minerals deal expected to be agreed between the two countries as early as this week, adding that Volodymyr Zelensky would face big problems if he didnt sign an agreement. But Ukraine has highlighted that the...

Considering ways to serve a third term as president: Trump
US President Donald Trump said Sunday that Im not joking about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029, reports AP. There are methods...

Reciprocal tariffs will target ‘all countries’: Trump
United States President Donald Trump has said his soon-to-be-announced reciprocal tariffs will apply to all countries, pouring cold water on hopes that only economies with the biggest trade imbalances with the US would be targeted, reports Al Jazeera. Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One...

Won’t ‘fire people’ over Signal messages: Trump
US President Donald Trump on Saturday made his clearest commitment to not fire anyone over an embarrassing accidental leak of his administrations plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen, reports AP. I dont fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts, Trump said in an...

‘Confident to advance our bilateral economic development’
US President Donald Trump has greeted Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and people of Bangladesh on the occasion of Independence Day, reports BSS. On behalf of the American people, I wish you and the people of Bangladesh a happy Independence Day. This time of transition presents an...

Trump's big move to change how US votes
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order seeking broad changes to elections in the US, including mandating voters to show proof that they are American citizens, counting only mail or absentee ballots received by Election Day and prohibiting non-US citizens from being able to...

US considers easing sanctions against Russia, Trump confirms
Moscow and Washington have expressed a commitment to advancing the Black Sea Initiative as part of efforts to address the ongoing Ukraine conflict. However, according to the Kremlin, the deal will only come into effect once the US lifts a range of sanctions that have been hindering Russias trade...

Pentagon chief slams judge for halting transgender ban
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joined the mounting criticism of federal judges by President Donald Trump and others in his administration on Saturday, mocking the judge who blocked a ban on transgender troops in the U.S. military and suggesting she had exceeded her authority, reports The...

Trump denies Musk is receiving China briefing
The US President Donald Trump has dismissed reports by The New York Times and other outlets that his billionaire aide will receive a Pentagon briefing about how the US would handle a war with China, reports Al Jazeera. The Times had reported, citing unidentified sources, that Musk was scheduled...

Trump to sign order for US Education Department shut down
President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the Education Department, reports AP. Citing a White House official, who wished to be unnamed, the media said that this will fulfill a long-standing conservative goal to eliminate the agency. Trump...

Ukraine war: Trump to speak with Putin seeking end
US President Donald Trump confirmed he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday as part of his efforts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine, reports UNB. Trump revealed the scheduled conversation to reporters while travelling from Florida to Washington aboard Air Force One on...

US must return Statue of Liberty to France – European Parliament member
Raphael Glucksmann, a French Member of the European Parliament, has called for the United States to return the Statue of Liberty to France, criticizing recent US policies under former President Donald Trump. The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the US in 1886, has long been a symbol of...

Children among 31 killed after US fighter jets bomb Yemen: Houthis
US fighter jets have carried out a series of air raids across Yemen, killing at least 31 people after President Donald Trump warned the Houthi group not to attack ships passing through the Red Sea, reports Al Jazeera. The US raids, the most significant military action since Trumps return to...

US launch large-scale strikes on Yemen's Houthis, 24 killed
U.S. President Donald Trump launched large-scale military strikes against Yemens Iran-aligned Houthis on Saturday over the groups attacks against Red Sea shipping, killing at least 24 people at the start of a campaign expected to last many days, reports the Reuters . Trump also warned Iran, the...

Trump says Islamic state's leader eliminated in Iraq
US President Donald Trump has said on Truth Social that a leader of the Islamic State (IS, banned in Russia) in Iraq was eliminated. Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters, he wrote. He also noted that the operation was...

Pakistan, Bhutan among 41 countries in Trump's potential travel ban list
The Trump administration is considering issuing sweeping travel restrictions for the citizens of dozens of countries as part of a new ban, according to sources familiar with the matter and an internal memo seen by Reuters. The memo lists a total of 41 countries divided into three separate...

Zelensky took billions from Biden like ‘candy from a baby’
US President Donald Trump has again accused his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky of not being grateful for getting billions of dollars from the United States under the previous Biden administration. In a sit-down interview with Fox News, Trump likened Zelensky getting $350 billion worth of...

India charges ‘massive tariffs’: Trump says ‘very unfair’
US President Donald Trump on Friday reiterated that India charges massive tariffs and said that you cant sell anything in the country. The 78-year-old Republican, whose tariff announcements have sent stock markets into a tailspin, also said that India has agreed to slash its tariffs, reports NDTV....