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Each page of The Daily Star's Thursday edition bore a single phrase relating to a problem facing the country.
Lebanon's only English-language daily "refrained from publishing news articles in its print edition" to protest against the country's deteriorating economic and political condition.
Every page of The Daily Star's Thursday edition bore a single phrase relating to a problem facing the country,...
At least one person killed as fighting between southern separatists and government troops continues for second day.
Fighting between southern separatists and presidential guards in Aden, the seat of Yemen's internationally-recognised government, has continued for a second straight day, raising concerns about the opening up of a new front in the country's long-running war.
Sounds of gunfire echoed through the southern port city on...
Blacklisted group's leader, who has been under detention since 1999, says he can 'remove the conflict' within a week.
Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has said he is ready to find a solution on the Kurdish issue, and that he could stop the conflict between the Turkish state and rebel fighters within a week, his lawyers said in a...
Eight people, including a one-year-old child, were killed and over 3,000 evacuated to over 60 relief camps after rains battered several parts of Kerala, officials said here yesterday.
State Revenue Minister E Chandrashekeran said Malappuram, Kozhikode, Kannur, Wayanad, Kasargode and Idukki districts were the worst affected areas.
“Three NDRF (National Disaster Response Force) teams have been deployed in Malappuram, Wayanad and...
Kashmir region was stripped of its autonomy to free it from “terrorism and separatism”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday.
In his first comments on the constitutional bombshell carried out while Kashmir was under a military lockdown, Modi insisted that his government had made a “historic decision”.
The Hindu nationalist government rushed through a presidential decree on Monday to ditch the...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold an election in the days following Brexit if lawmakers sink his government with a vote of no-confidence, the FT reported yesterday, citing unidentified senior aides to the prime minister.
The FT said his aides expect he will face a confidence vote soon after parliament returns from its summer break.
“We can’t stop them forcing an...
Raging floods across Myanmar have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes in recent weeks, officials said yesterday, as monsoon rains pummel the nation. Aerial images from Shwegyin township in Bago region showed how the area had become a vast lake of water.
Only the rooftops could be seen of many homes lining the Sittaung river.
Emergency services have...
US officials said that some 680 undocumented migrants were detained in a major series of raids on Wednesday at food processing plants in the southeastern United States, part of President Donald Trump’s announced crackdown on illegal immigration.
Most of those detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were Hispanic migrants, officials said.
TV footage showed lines of arrested migrants heading...
The United States raised its travel warning for Hong Kong, urging increased caution by visitors to the Chinese territory in the face of what it described as civil unrest after months of sometimes violent street protests.
The protests in the Asian financial hub began with opposition to a now-suspended extradition law and have evolved into a direct challenge to the...
The leader of Italy’s ruling League party, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, said yesterday that the governing coalition had broken down and that the only way forward was to hold new elections.
The shock announcement follows months of bickering between the right-wing League and its coalition partner, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), and it throws the eurozone’s third-largest economy into...
‘Boss’, a Brahman bull born in the USA but raised in Bangladesh, has been sold for a record price as the country prepares to sacrifice over 10mn animals to celebrate the festival of Eid al-Adha next week, officials said yesterday.
Tens of millions of Bangladeshis travel back to their homes across the country to celebrate the annual three-day religious holiday,...
Pakistan halted its main train service to India and banned Indian films as it exerted diplomatic pressure on New Delhi for revoking the special status of Kashmir, the region at the heart of 70 years of hostility between them.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government this week withdrew Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir’s right to frame its own laws and allowed...
In order to improve its performance and services, the General Directorate of Traffic, represented by the Traffic Patrols and Investigation Department, has opened a traffic investigation office at the headquarters of Gulf Takaful Insurance Company.
Announcing the opening, First Lieutenant Hamoud Mubarak al-Shafi, Officer of Traffic Investigation Offices in insurance companies at the Traffic Patrols and Investigation Department, said that...
Doha Festival City will celebrate the unity and diversity of Qatar’s community during Eid al-Adha with a #QatarUnitesUs Mosaic Wall.
From the first day of Eid until the 4th day, visitors can participate in building a mosaic wall that represents the proud citizens and residents of Qatar.
During this period, Doha Festival City shoppers are invited to share their pictures inside...
