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Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina has been re-elected for the fifth term, with her party winning more than 50 per cent in an election marred with violence and boycott from the main opposition BNP. Around 170 million Bangladeshis voted today to elect 299 lawmakers even as the Opposition boycotted the polls. Forty per cent of the...

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX faced an emergency today after one of its doors blew open mid-air, minutes after take-off. Videos taken by passengers show the mid-cabin exit door had completely separated from the aircraft. “AS1282 from Portland to Ontario, CA (California) experienced an incident this evening soon after departure. The aircraft landed safely back at Portland International Airport...

The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a ruling by Colorado’s highest court that would keep him off the presidential primary ballot in the western state. The conservative-majority Supreme Court, which includes three justices appointed by the former president, said it would hear oral arguments in the high-stakes election case on February 8. The...

Gun violence has become the leading cause of death for children in America, said US Vice President Kamala Harris, adding that in the first four days of 2024, more than 400 people have lost their lives to shootings in the country. Ms Harris took to X, formerly Twitter, to condole the death of a sixth-grade student who was killed after...

Israeli bombing killed dozens of people in besieged Gaza on January 4, the Health Ministry of the Hamas-run Palestinian territory said, with regional tensions surging over the almost three-month-old war. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was headed back to the Middle East for his fourth trip to the region since the Hamas attack of October 7 triggered the bloodiest...

Did the world just see the first combat use of anti-ship ballistic missiles? Military analysts think so. The weapon used by Iran-backed Huthi rebels to attack ships in the Red Sea was not a conventional sea-skimming variety of anti-ship missiles. The rebels fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBM) on Tuesday towards the southern Red Sea, where there were multiple commercial...

Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri among the dead in an attack in south Beirut, the Palestinian group announces, along with six others, including two Qassam leaders. The Palestinian Red Crescent said an Israeli army strike on its Khan Younis headquarters has killed at least five displaced Palestinians. At least five Palestinians killed as Israeli raids continue across occupied West Bank....

A fire broke out in a plane on a runway at Japan’s Tokyo Haneda airport on Tuesday, according to footage broadcast by country’s public broadcaster NHK. Flames were seen coming out of the windows of an aircraft.  possible collision with a Coast Guard aircraft is being seen as the reason for the blaze on the plane, Nippon TV reported. Haneda...

A Japan Airlines airplane was on Tuesday seen in flames on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The images showed the plane moving briskly along the runway before an explosion burst from beneath it. The cause of the incident was not immediately clear, but media reports said that the Airbus collided with a coastguard aircraft. According to the latest reports,...

The inaugural edition of joint military exercise “Desert Cyclone 2024” will kick off on January 2, marking a significant milestone in the strategic partnership between India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The two-week-long exercise, scheduled from January 2 to January 15, will be conducted in the arid terrains of Rajasthan, with a primary focus on enhancing interoperability and sharing...

A significant earthquake, initially measured at 7.4 magnitude, struck the north-central region of Japan on Monday, as reported by NHK, the public broadcaster. Following the quake, the Japan Meteorological Agency released a tsunami warning for the coastal areas of Ishikawa, Niigata, and Toyama prefectures. NHK reported that the tsunami warning advised immediate evacuation from coastalregions due to anticipated waves reaching...

China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable, President Xi Jinping said in his New Year’s address on Sunday, striking a stronger tone than he did last year with less than two weeks to go before the Chinese-claimed island elects a new leader. The January 13 presidential and parliamentary elections are happening at a time of fraught relations between Beijing and Taipei....