BANGLADESH SCRAPS ‘SIR’ SALUTATION FOR WOMEN OFFICIALS UNDER CARETAKER GOVERNMENT
Agency Report Bangladesh’s caretaker government has annulled a controversial protocol that required women in official roles to be addressed as “sir,” describing it as an...
CAMBODIA AMENDS CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW CITIZENSHIP REVOCATION FOR ‘FOREIGN COLLUSION’
Agency Report [caption id="attachment_185469" align="alignnone" width="300"] Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet greets people as he arrives to attend a meeting at the National Assembly building...
SOUTH KOREA’S DISGRACED EX-PRESIDENT YOON SUK YEOL DETAINED AGAIN OVER MARTIAL LAW COUP ATTEMPT
By Aishat Momoh. O. Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was detained for a second time on Thursday as prosecutors intensified their investigation into...
FORMER RUSSIAN MINISTER ROMAN STAROVOYT COMMITS SUICIDE HOURS AFTER DISMISSAL BY PUTIN
By Aishat Momoh. O. Russia’s former Minister of Transport, Roman Starovoyt, was found dead by suicide on Monday, just hours after President Vladimir Putin...
U.S. FACES WORST MEASLES OUTBREAK IN OVER 30 YEARS AMID FALLING VACCINATION RATES
Agency Report The United States is grappling with its most severe measles epidemic since 1992, with 1,277 confirmed cases reported across nearly 40 states, according...
TRUMP IMPOSES 25% TARIFFS ON JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA, WARNS OF ESCALATION AHEAD OF TRADE DEADLINE
By Aishat Momoh. O. U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on imports from Japan and South Korea, escalating...
KENYA STREETS DESERTED AS POLICE BLOCK ROADS TO DETER ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTERS ON SABA SABA DAY
By Aishat Momoh. O. Streets in Kenya’s capital Nairobi were largely deserted on Monday as police mounted roadblocks and deployed heavily across key routes...
GERMAN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION SURGES IN MAY, BOOSTING HOPES OF ECONOMIC TURNAROUND
By Aishat Momoh. O. Germany’s industrial sector delivered a welcome surprise in May, with production rising sharply despite ongoing trade tensions with the United...
DOZENS MISSING, 78 DEAD IN TEXAS FLASH FLOODS AS RESCUERS RACE AGAINST TIME
Agency Report Rescuers in central Texas were racing against time on Sunday to locate dozens of missing people, including children, after devastating flash floods killed...
RUSSIA BECOMES FIRST COUNTRY TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNISE TALIBAN GOVERNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN
Agency Report Russia has become the first nation to officially recognise the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan, a move that Afghan authorities have hailed as a...