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- Small firms, AI lead Europe’s 2024 patent activity, EPO reports
- Shakib under investigation by ACC over corruption allegations
- Severe storms claim 16 lives, including children in US
- LPG price reduced by Tk 28 per 12-kg cylinder
- Sheikh Moinuddin joins as special assistant to road, transport, bridges ministry
- ‘We're hopeful of starting 2nd Tribunal soon’
- IMF satisfied with Bangladesh’s improvement: Finance Adviser
- Starmer to declare end of globalization as Trump’s trade war redraws economic order
- Evaly MD Rassell, chairman Shamima sentenced for 3 yrs imprisonment
- Iran warns neighbors against hosting strike operations
- Bangladesh remains steadfast to prevent human trafficking
- Rizwana calls for positive mindset in environmental actions
- Election work including delimitation progressing well: CEC
- Rain likely in Dhaka, 7 other divisions
- US tariffs will have minimal impact on country’s exports
- Iran top diplomat rejects direct negotiations with US
- Stock markets resume trading after Eid holidays
- Rain complicates recovery in quake-hit Myanmar as death toll rises
- Country witnesses no major crime during Eid holidays
- Artificial glaciers boost water supply in northern Pakistan

Conservatives win German election as far-right surges
Germanys conservative opposition leader, Friedrich Merz, secured a narrow victory in Sundays national election, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) doubled its support in its strongest showing since World War II, according to projections. Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat...

Scholz wonders as Trump asks for higher defense spending
TASS reported German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has distanced himself from US President-elect Donald Trumps call for increasing defense spending by NATO countries to 5% of their GDP. The Russian State media quotes Scholz as saying during a trip to the city of Bielefeld: Five percent would mean more...