At least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late on Friday. The blast sent plumes of smoke into the sky and triggered gunfire, witnesses and state-owned media reported. “So far we have carried 20 dead people and 30 injured from the blast scene,” Dr Abdulkadir Aden, founder of AAMIN Ambulance…

India has tightened security in its northeastern states bordering Myanmar in view of people escaping the turmoil in that country after the recent military coup. India shares a long land border of more than 1,600 km with Myanmar as well as a maritime boundary in the Bay of Bengal. Four northeastern Indian states -- Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram -- share an international boundary…

Bangabandhu Parishad USA filed a lawsuit with the US court in Michigan on February 23, seeking compensation of $ 500 million dollars for tarnishing the image of Bangladesh at home and abroad in a documentary titled 'All the Prime Minister's Men' on Qatar-based Al Jazeera. Five people, including Al Jazeera TV authorities, have been charged in the case. The video of "All the Prime Minister's…

Lauding global solidarity for the initial success of COVAX in Africa, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called for "more international support" to ensure an equitable rollout of jabs worldwide. Speaking after Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Colombia received their first round of AstraZeneca(AZ)/Oxford jabs, the WHO Director-General said on…

The United States could start vaccinating older children against Covid-19 by the fall and younger ones by year-end or early 2022, the White House's top pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci said Sunday. The mass vaccination of school-age children will allow millions of children to return sooner to in-person learning and ease the burden on millions of parents now caring for their offspring at home. School…

The UN Security Council will hold a summit of world leaders Tuesday to debate climate change’s implications for world peace, an issue on which its 15 members have divergent opinions. The session, called by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and conducted by video-conference, comes just days after the United States under President Joe Biden formally rejoined the Paris climate change accord.…

Manama: The government of Bahrain on Thursday decided to toughen its measures against the spread of the Covid-19 virus by extending restrictions for a period of three weeks till March 14. The move taken by country’s National Medical Taskforce for Combatting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) will come into effect from February 21 to March 14. The measures agreed include all government entities and institutions…

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has opened the new Arar airport in its Northern Borders Province with a capacity to serve one million passengers annually and more than 10,000 flights per year, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The new terminal at Arar airport was inaugurated on Wednesday by the governor of Saudi Arabia’s Northern Borders Region Prince Faisal bin Khalid bin Sultan and Saudi Transport Minister…

Special US Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has acknowledged the threat of the climate issue and highlighted the risks from environmental change faced by Bangladesh. The US Special Envoy invited Bangladesh to attend the US’ climate summit, which will be held on April 22 in Washington, D.C., so that representatives from the nation can voice their concerns directly. He said stakeholder…

New York: The World Food Program (WFP) said in a press release on Thursday that an additional 4.5 million Syrians have become food insecure over the past year, bringing the total number of people on the brink of hunger to a record 12.4 million. “A record 12.4 million Syrians – nearly 60 per cent of the population – are now food insecure,” the release said. “In just over…

Hackers attacked military-run government websites in Myanmar Thursday as a cyber war erupted after authorities shut down the internet for a fourth straight night. A group called Myanmar Hackers disrupted multiple government websites including the Central Bank, Myanmar Military's propaganda page, state-run broadcaster MRTV, the Port Authority, Food and Drug Administration. The move comes a day…

An earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale hit Ladakh on Thursday morning. According to the National Center for Seismology, the earthquake struck the Union Territory at 7:39 am. The depth of the earthquake was recorded to be 200 kilometres. The earthquake in Ladakh comes six days after a high-intensity earthquake hit Tajikistan on Friday night, tremors of which were felt in Delhi-NCR and several…

Millions of people were still without power on Wednesday in Texas, the oil and gas capital of the United States, with some facing water shortages as an unusual winter storm pummeled the southeastern part of country. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a winter storm warning for a swathe of the country ranging from east Texas to the East Coast state of Maryland. The NWS said the storm would bring…