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Thousands march again in huge Hong Kong anti-government rally

Shawdesh Desk: Hong Kong witnessed another huge anti-government march on Sunday with seemingly no end in sight to the turmoil engulfing the finance hub, sparked by years of rising anger

‘Bangladesh a country of religious harmony’

US Ambassador in Dhaka Earl R Miller has said that the allegation Bangladeshi national Priya Saha had made to US President Donald Trump on the minority community is not correct.

Hungarian philosopher, critic Agnes Heller passes away

Shawdesh Desk: Philosopher Agnes Heller, a dissident under Hungary’s communist regime and later a prominent critic of prime minister Viktor Orban, died Friday at the age of 90, the Hungarian

Six killed, 27 injured in Kabul University blast

Shawdesh Desk: An explosion on Friday near a gate to the campus of Kabul University in the Afghan capital killed six people and injured at least 27 as students waited

Imran to meet Trump for mending fences

Shawdesh desk: Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan travels to the United States on Sunday hoping the arrest of a militant leader with a $10 million US bounty on his head

Mexican drug lord Guzman sentenced to life imprisonment

Shawdesh desk: Once one of the world’s most powerful and notorious criminals, Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday — the mandatory punishment for

US House voters criticise Trump’s ‘racist comments’

Shawdesh Desk: The United States House of Representatives formally condemned Donald Trump on Tuesday for xenophobic attacks on four minority democratic lawmakers and hostile language targeting immigrants, as the president

ICC team in Bangladesh to discuss Rohingya crisis

Shawdesh Desk: A delegation of the International Criminal Court, led by its Deputy Prosecutor James Kirkpatrick Stewart, arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday morning on a weeklong visit to Bangladesh to