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Khaleda Zia, who has died at the age of 80, was Bangladesh’s first female prime minister. She was once described as a “shy housewife” to her husband Ziaur Rahman, a leading figure in the country’s struggle for independence who became the president in 1977. But following her husband’s assassination in…

Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first female prime minister and an arch-rival of ousted leader Sheikh Hasina, has died from a prolonged illness. She was 80 years old. Zia intended to run for parliament in February, when the country will vote for the first time since a popular revolution in late 2024…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said a peace agreement to end the war with Russia is “90% ready”, in a New Year address that largely focused on resistance to Moscow’s full-scale invasion. Zelensky said the remaining 10% of the agreement to end nearly four years of conflict would “determine the…

Jumping into the frigid waters of Coney Island in January for a pun on “I’m freezing… your rent”. Visiting food trucks to discuss how city permitting processes have led to “Halalflation”. Walking the length of Manhattan to show New Yorkers they “deserve a mayor that they can see, they can…

Myanmar has confirmed that 180,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh since fleeing their homeland are eligible to return, the Bangladeshi government has said. Friday’s announcement, following talks in Bangkok, offered a possible breakthrough in the long-stalled repatriation process, although many Rohingya refugees say all of them should be allowed to go…

Seoul, South Korea – South Korea’s Constitutional Court unanimously voted to remove President Yoon Suk-yeol over his declaration of martial law late last year. As he read the verdict in court on Friday morning, acting chief justice Moon Hyung-bae dismissed each of Yoon’s reasons for declaring martial law and said the…

American companies looking to sell into the huge Chinese market have just taken a big hit. A 34% price increase on all US goods entering the country will knock some out of here altogether. This is especially bad for US agricultural producers. They already had 10 or 15% tariffs on…

If I was writing a Russian language course for 2025, Lesson One would definitely contain the phrase for rollercoaster: Amerikanskiye gorki. It means, literally, American Hills. How appropriate. After all, with President Donald Trump now operating the ride, and Vladimir Putin pressing some of the buttons, US-Russian relations have become one…

At least 85 people have been killed when a passenger plane caught fire after skidding off a runway and crashing at an airport in South Korea’s Muan city, the country’s National Fire Agency said. The accident occurred on Sunday at 9.03am local time (00:03 GMT) as the Jeju Air flight,…

Afghan Taliban forces have targeted “several points” in neighbouring Pakistan, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense said, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardments inside the country. The statement from the defence ministry on Saturday did not directly specify that Pakistan was hit, but said the attacks were conducted “beyond the ‘hypothetical line’”…