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Lebanon’s army chief elected president, showing regional shifts

BEIRUT, Jan 9: Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with ...

American leadership on Ukraine ‘critical’: US defence chief

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Jan 9: American leadership on Ukraine is "critical" and continued assistance for Kyiv is key, Defence Secretary ...

Real Madrid chief Perez calls club elections

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Real Madrid president Florentino Perez on Tuesday set in motion the process for club elections, in which he is expected ...

Sudan's army chief welcomes Turkish offer to resolve conflict: FM

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Sudan's army chief has welcomed a Turkish offer to resolve the brutal 20-month conflict between his forces and their paramilitary ...

S Korea's presidential security chief defies Yoon arrest bid as deadline looms

Yoon ignored cabinet opposition to martial law: Prosecutors

SEOUL, Jan 5: The chief of security for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Sunday he could not ...

Hezbollah chief says ready to respond to Israeli ceasefire violations

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Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said Saturday that the group is prepared to respond to Israeli violations of their Lebanon ceasefire ...

Army chief meets Khaleda Zia

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Chief of Army Staff General Waker-uz-Zaman met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday night.The Army Chief, accompanied by his wife, ...

Israeli strikes kill police chief, two dozen others in Gaza

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, Jan 2: Israel struck a declared humanitarian zone in southern Gaza overnight, which rescuers on Thursday said killed ...

Bring former chief justice SK Sinha back to country: SCBA president

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Supreme Court Bar Association president Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon has demanded to bring former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha ...

Hamas police chief among 11 killed in Israeli strike

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The chief of Gaza's Hamas-run police force and his deputy have been killed in an Israeli strike on a tent ...

Israel's former defence chief Gallant quits parliament

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Former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who had often taken an independent line against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ...

Ex-DMP chief Golam Faruq barred from leaving country

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Former commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Khandker Golam Faruque and his wife Sharmin Akter have been barred to leave ...

Gaza hospitals have become 'death trap': UN rights chief

GENEVA, Dec 31: UN rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday that hospitals in the Gaza Strip had become a "death ...

WHO chief calls for end to hospital attacks in Gaza after Israeli strike

Demands Israel release Gaza hospital director

ZURICH, Dec 30: The head of the World Health Organization on Monday called for an end to attacks on hospitals ...

WHO chief says narrowly escaped death in Israeli strikes on Yemen airport

GENEVA, Dec 28: The head of the World Health Organization said Saturday he only narrowly escaped death in fatal Israeli ...

Israeli strikes hit Yemen airport as WHO chief prepares to leave

SANAA, Dec 27: Israeli air strikes hit rebel-held Sanaa's international airport and other targets in Yemen on Thursday as the ...

UN chief condemns 'escalation' between Yemen's Huthis and Israel

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The United Nations chief on Thursday denounced the "escalation" in hostilities between Yemen's Huthi rebels and Israel, terming strikes on ...

Mass murderers have no right to do politics: Jamaat chief

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Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman has said despite the autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina fled to India in the ...

Police committed to serving citizens: Addl DMP chief

Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Hasan Md. Shawkat Ali on Sunday said police is committed to serving people ...

People won't be able to come out of home if autorickshaws can't be reined in: DMP chief

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Traffic situation in the capital will deteriorate further if battery-run autorickshaws cannot be controlled as soon as possible, said Dhaka ...

Russia detains suspect over murder of chemical weapons chief

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Russia said on Wednesday it had detained an Uzbek man who had confessed to planting and detonating a bomb which ...

ACC files corruption cases against ex-DB chief Harun, wife, brother

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The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed three separate cases against former Detective Branch (DB) chief Mohammad Harun-or Rashid, his wife, ...

Jatiya Nagorik Committee makes Sarjis as chief organiser

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The Jatiya Nagorik Committee, formed during the July-August student-led mass upsurge, has been reorganised to widen its efforts towards abolishing ...

Tax exemptions to be cut drastically at IMF urging: NBR chief

Bangladesh must meet strict conditions if it wants to get budget support from various partner organisations, including the International Monetary ...

BGB fully prepared to prevent mischief at borders: BGB HQs

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The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) is completely ready to tackle any untoward situation at the frontiers."BGB is fully prepared and ...

UN chief 'alarmed' by Syria violence, calls for end to fighting

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 3: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday he was "alarmed" by the escalation of violence in ...

Former rugby league chief named Cricket Australia boss

SYDNEY, DEC 3: Cricket Australia named seasoned sports administrator Todd Greenberg as its new chief executive on Tuesday, replacing Nick ...

UN chief says situation in Gaza ‘appalling and apocalyptic’

CAIRO, Dec 2: The United Nations chief said Monday the situation in war-torn Gaza was "appalling and apocalyptic", warning conditions ...

'End in sight' to talks on pandemic treaty, says WHO chief

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Countries trying to negotiate a global agreement on handling future pandemics began an extra week of talks Monday, with the ...

Hezbollah chief pledges to coordinate with army to implement truce

BEIRUT, Nov 30: The head of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, pledged on Friday to coordinate closely with the Lebanese army to ...