World leaders were set to meet for a second day of climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon yesterday after fiery speeches and renewed criticism of Big Oil marked the opening session.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that Iran has asked for heavy US sanctions against Tehran to be lifted -- and that he is open to having a discussion about it.

A pair of US B-52 bombers flew over the Caribbean Sea along the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, flight tracking data showed, in the fourth such show of force by American military aircraft in recent we ...

North Korea fired a ballistic missile yesterday, Seoul’s military said, around a week after US President Donald Trump approved South Korea’s plan to build a nuclear-powered submarine.

Five people were killed and six were wounded in brief cross-border fire between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Thursday afternoon, a hospital official on the Afghan side told AFP, in an incident both ...

Travelers across the United States were left scrambling to rebook flights as the government shutdown heaps pressure on the country’s air traffic control system, prompting hundreds of flight cancellati ...

Former Bangladesh women’s cricket team skipper Jahanara Alam’s recent allegations of sexual harassment against members of ...

The commissioning of China’s latest aircraft carrier this week marks a new chapter in its military modernisation effort but ...

Explosions were heard near the army-controlled Sudanese capital Khartoum yesterday, witnesses told AFP, a day after the ...

At least 23 people, including three policemen, were injured yesterday in a clash between supporters of two BNP nomination aspirants in Faridpur’s Boalmari upazila.

Non-development expenditure is set to rise again in the revised budget for the current fiscal year mainly due to higher costs on interest payments and subsidies.

President Donald Trump said Thursday he expects a US-coordinated international stabilization force to be on the ground in Gaza “very soon,” following two years of war in the territory between Israel ...