Dhaka, The Bangladesh government has decided to allow international flight operations from late June after over two months of suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Bangladesh's international air connectivity will resume in the third week of the month, Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary Md Mohibul Haque

Dhaka, Police in Dhaka have arrested another nine people with alleged links to the killings of 26 Bangladeshi migrants in Libya, the media reported.

The Detective Branch and the Criminal Investigation Department made the arrests from parts of the capital on Sunday under the anti-trafficking and anti-terrorism law,

Jakarta, An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia's Maluku province on Tuesday, the meteorology and geophysics agency said.

The quake struck at 11.56 a.m. with the epicentre at 126 km southwest Buru district and the shallow at 10 km under sea bed, agency official Alfart Abubakar told X

Hong Kong, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there will no pay rise for top officials, senior advisers, as well as for herself this year.

In a media briefing, Lam said the decision was taken to show that officials wanted to stand with the people amid the corona

Moscow, About 1 million people will return to work in Moscow this week after the self-isolation measures in the Russian capital imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic were lifted, Deputy Mayor Vladimir Yefimov said on Tuesday.

Earlier, Russian Mayor Sergei Sobyanin informed that starting June 9, the self-isolation r

Moscow, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there was no exact date of resuming flights between Russia and other countries amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but the issue was on the agenda.

"This issue (on resuming flights) is on the agenda. There are no exact dates yet," TASS News Agency quoted Peskov a

Ottawa, Canada will begin to allow some family members separated by temporary COVID-19 travel restrictions to cross the border into the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

"We are bringing in a limited exemption to allow immediate family members of citizens or permanent residents to come to Canada,&q

Paris,  France's economy is on course to shrink over 10 per cent in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the central bank said on Tuesday.

In a statement, the Bank of France said the country's economy will only return to pre-coronavirus levels by mid-2022, reports the BBC.

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London, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged the country to "work peacefully, lawfully" to defeat racism and discrimination, it was reported on Tuesday.

In an article for the Voice, the only British national black weekly newspaper, Johnson wrote that the government could not ignore the anger and &qu

Wellington, New Zealand's research institute in Antarctica is scaling back the number of projects planned for the upcoming season, in an effort to keep the continent free of coronavirus, it was reported on Tuesday.

The government agency, Antarctica New Zealand, told the BBC on Tuesday that it was dropping 23 o