Lankan parliament to cut PM's budge...
International Desk: Sri Lanka's parliament on Thursday agreed to cut the budget of the prime minister's office, a move designed to hinder disputed pre
International Desk: Sri Lanka's parliament on Thursday agreed to cut the budget of the prime minister's office, a move designed to hinder disputed pre
International Desk: Global rights watchdogs and Nepal’s national rights commission asked Nepal to pressurise Myanmar for safe and dignified return o
International Desk: The US senate took a defiant stance against president Donald Trump's White House on Wednesday, advancing a measure that would end
Thirteen Myanmar police officers were killed in raids Friday by ethnic Rakhine rebels, the army said, in a brazen, co-ordinated attack on the country
By any measure, 2018 was a tumultuous year, in no small way owing to president Trump’s unpredictable behaviour. He has been, in a word, exhausting,&
As Indonesia reels from the carnage of yet another natural disaster, authorities around the globe are working on how they can prepare for the kind of
By Dean Baker: A FRIEND called my attention to this Project Syndicate piece by Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard economics professor and former chief economis
BD Correspondent: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday described the national election as a ‘cruel mockery’ with the n
Human Rights Watch has asked Argentina to use a war crimes clause in its constitution to investigate the role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salma
BEYOND any reasonable doubt, in substance if not in appearance, Donald Trump is a thoroughly conventional American politician. It’s a wonder that an
TRUMP’S Trump's remarks reflect this reality better than the public and official reaction of Pakistan. The fact is, it is not Pakistan but its servi
US authorities shut the country's busiest border crossing and fired tear gas into Mexico on Sunday to repel Central American migrants approaching the