Israel will keep Gaza buffer zone, minister says, as truce bid stalls

April 17, 2025

Israeli troops will remain in the buffer zones they have created in Gaza even after any settlement to end the war, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday, as efforts to revive a ceasefire agreement faltered, Reuters reports. Since resuming military operations last month, Israeli forces have carved out a broad “security zone” extending deep […]Continue Reading

Trump says Iran must give up dream of nuclear weapon or face harsh response

April 14, 2025

President Donald Trump said on Monday he believes Iran is intentionally delaying a nuclear deal with the United States and that it must abandon any drive for a nuclear weapon or face a possible military strike on Tehran’s atomic facilities, Reuters reports. “I think they’re tapping us along,” Trump told reporters after U.S. special envoy […]Continue Reading

China always with new Bangladesh: ambassador

April 14, 2025

NEWS DESK Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen has said that China is always with the new Bangladesh. ‘China is always with the people of Bangladesh, with the new Bangladesh,’ he at a drone show on Manik Mia Avenue in the capital Monday evening. The drone show was organised by the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy under […]Continue Reading

Israeli forces have completed encirclement of Gaza’s Rafah, military says

April 12, 2025

Israeli forces have completed the encirclement of Gaza’s Rafah, the military said on Saturday, part of an announced plan to seize more areas of the enclave, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population, Reuters reports. The military has issued repeated evacuation warnings to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians across Rafah since it resumed operations in Continue Reading

Chinese nationals captured fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Zelenskiy says

April 8, 2025

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting for Russia in eastern Ukraine, potentially threatening a fragile peace effort in the three-year-old war, Reuters reports. Beijing is a close diplomatic ally of Moscow but is not publicly known to have directly aided in the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion, which Continue Reading

Israeli military changes initial account of Gaza aid worker killings

April 7, 2025

The Israeli military has provided new details that changed its initial account of the killing of 15 emergency workers near the southern Gaza city of Rafah last month but said investigators were still examining the evidence, Reuters reports. The 15 paramedics and emergency responders were shot dead on March 23 and buried in a shallow […]Continue Reading

Iran wants indirect talks with US, warns regional countries over strikes against it

April 7, 2025

Iran is pushing back against U.S. demands that it directly negotiate over its nuclear programme or be bombed, warning neighbours that host U.S. bases that they could be in the firing line if involved, a senior Iranian official said, Reuters reports. Although Iran has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for direct talks, it wants […]Continue Reading

Pakistan army crosses Line of Control and fires at posts, India retaliates

April 2, 2025

Pakistan Army intruded into Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, violating the ceasefire agreement between the two nations. The violation took place at 1.10 pm on Tuesday and the Indian troops responded with “controlled and calibrated” retaliation, The Hindustan Times reports. The Nangi Tekri Battalion, operating under the Krishna Ghati Brigade, Continue Reading

ASEAN MPs look to bar Myanmar from BIMSTEC over human rights concerns

April 2, 2025

NEWS DESK The ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) on Wednesday strongly condemned the decision to invite the “illegitimate” Myanmar military junta to participate in the upcoming Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) meeting in Bangkok on April 3-4. APHR called on BIMSTEC member states, particularly Continue Reading

Biden’s Gaza plan ‘not a good deal’ but Israel accepts it, Netanyahu aide says

June 2, 2024

An aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Sunday that Israel had accepted a framework deal for winding down the Gaza war now being advanced by U.S. President Joe Biden, though he described it as flawed and in need of much more work, Reuters reports. In an interview with Britain’s Sunday Times, Ophir Falk, […]Continue Reading