A year ago, a US ban put the government in quite a quandary. Now the Bangladeshi foreign ministry fears that the ban may come again before the election. Similar restrictions may come on various BD government agencies and responsible persons for different reasons. All BD embassies and missions of Bangladesh…
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Electric car maker Tesla said it delivered a record 1.3 million vehicles last year, 40% more than in 2021. But the firm, led by billionaire Elon Musk, fell short of Wall Street sales forecasts for the final months of the year. The company’s shares sank by more than 12% on…
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Pressure is mounting on President Joe Biden to give further details about the classified documents found at his Delaware home and a Washington office he once used. An independent lawyer, or special counsel, has been appointed by the justice department to investigate whether these papers were mishandled. There are still…
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Russia’s military says it has captured the Ukrainian salt-mine town of Soledar after a long battle, calling it an “important” step for its offensive. The victory would allow Russian troops to push on to the nearby city of Bakhmut, and cut off the Ukrainian forces there, a spokesman said. This…
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For more than a century the scramble for oil unleashed wars, forced unusual alliances and sparked diplomatic rows. Now the world’s two biggest economies are battling over another precious resource: semiconductors, the chips that literally power our daily life. These tiny fragments of silicon are at the heart of a…
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Qatar is turning its attention to diversifying its economy away from gas. Qatar’s stock market is set to welcome its first initial public offering (IPO) in nearly three years in a test of new regulations that Doha has introduced, hoping to compete with more active exchanges in the region. IT…
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Pashinyan is increasingly frustrated by Russia’s failure to secure free transit along a corridor linking Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia has refused to host military drills by the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), a Russian-led alliance of post-Soviet countries, in an announcement that reflects Yerevan’s growing tensions with Moscow. Russia had…
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On Sunday, the world watched, stunned, as thousands of supporters of Jair Bolsonaro stormed Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace. In echoes of the attacks on the United States Capitol almost exactly two years ago, they tore through buildings shouting the false accusation that the presidential election had been…
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China has stopped issuing short-term visas to individuals from South Korea and Japan in retaliation for Covid restrictions on Chinese travellers. Beijing says the pause on South Korean visas will remain in place until “discriminatory” entry restrictions against China are lifted. Japan and South Korea are not the only countries…
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Former US president slams FBI raid, calls Joe Biden an ‘enemy of the state’ in his first public appearance since the search of Mar-a-Lago. Former US President Donald Trump has slammed the FBI’s raid on his Florida home as a “travesty of justice” as he made his first public appearance…
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