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Ukraine Defence Ministry uses anime reference while highlighting Russian war losses
Ukrainian MoD drops Chainsaw Man and One Piece references.
30 September 2022, 16:36 PM
No need for Bangladeshi volunteers to join military operation in Ukraine: Russian Embassy
The Russian Embassy in Dhaka today said that although they appreciated the gesture of Bangladeshi citizens who wanted to volunteer in the Russian military operation in Ukraine, there is no need for it.
7 April 2022, 13:36 PM
Soccer fans mock as England dumped out of Europe twice in a week
England score an ignominious double on Monday, becoming the first country to be dumped out of Europe twice in a week and in the process losing both its prime minister and national soccer team manager.
28 June 2016, 06:03 AM
Tokyo dreams fuel Cambodia's first disabled basketballers
Slamming into each other with a metallic crunch, Cambodia's first women's wheelchair basketball team are changing attitudes to disability in a nation where unexploded landmines claim new victims every week but physical impairments are scorned.
5 April 2016, 10:32 AM
A war, a life
A war is a battle fought by others, where deaths are only piling numbers and the critically injured- someone else’s problem.
25 March 2016, 07:52 AM
Syria crisis: Strikes on hospitals 'war crimes'
France and Turkey have said that air strikes on hospitals in northern Syria constitute war crimes.
16 February 2016, 05:22 AM
Khaleda’s war martyrs remark ‘contextually correct’: Fakhrul
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says his party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia’s remarks on the number of martyrs during the Liberation War of 1971 was ‘contextually correct’.
15 February 2016, 12:29 PM
Saudis will not allow war with Iran, says deputy crown prince
Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said a war between his country and Iran would be the beginning of a catastrophe and Riyadh would not allow it.
8 January 2016, 07:19 AM
Preserving war history
People have rarely heard of Saiful Islam a preserver of the nation’s history. He is a Philatelic dealer and collector of the Liberation war related items. He collects old newspapers, documents, stamps, books, photos, and philatelic items from waste papers piled up in one of the shanty parts of Old Dhaka.
16 December 2015, 11:38 AM
The Grand Theatre of War
World War I was once thought of as 'the War to End All Wars'. But the hypothesis that “violence can be extinguished with greater violence” has since been thoroughly disproved and should have no place in modern statecraft. Yet it is the bedrock of anti-terrorism.
30 November 2015, 18:00 PM
SCF condemns Pak statement on war criminals' executions
Sector Commanders Forum -Muktijuddho '71 has condemned Pakistan’s interference in the internal affairs of Bangladesh.
24 November 2015, 09:13 AM
Australia receives first five Syrian refugees
Five Syrians have become the first of 12,000 refugees to arrive in Australia under a one-off plan to resettle people fleeing the country's conflict.
17 November 2015, 05:42 AM
US states say no to Syrian refugees
More than a dozen US states say Syrian refugees are no longer welcome due to security fears after the Paris attacks.
17 November 2015, 04:41 AM
France retaliates, bombs Syria after Paris carnage
French warplanes pounds the Islamic State group's de facto capital in Syria on Sunday, in the first such strikes since a wave of coordinated attacks claimed by the jihadists left 129 people dead in Paris - signalling its resolve in fight against the group.
16 November 2015, 04:21 AM
5 including ex-JP MP sued for war crimes in Mymensingh
A case was filed today against five people including a former lawmaker of Jatiya Party for their alleged involvement in war crimes in Mymensingh district.
25 October 2015, 11:23 AM
Muslim pilgrims start hajj pilgrimage
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from across the globe begin the annual hajj pilgrimage in one of the largest annual gatherings of people in the world.
22 September 2015, 05:55 AM
Ending Syria war ‘key to migrant crisis’
Ending the conflict in Syria and Iraq is key to solving the migrant crisis facing Europe, a senior US official tells the BBC.
14 September 2015, 06:20 AM
Migrant crisis: Influx will change Germany, says Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the "breathtaking" flow of migrants into Germany will "occupy and change" the country in the coming years.
7 September 2015, 05:21 AM
North Korea orders troops on war footing after exchanging fire with South
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un orders his frontline troops to be on a war footing after an exchange of fire with the South across their heavily fortified border.
21 August 2015, 07:19 AM
40 migrants die in Mediterranean (video)
At least 40 migrants have died after apparently getting trapped and suffocating in the water-logged hold of a boat in the Mediterranean.
15 August 2015, 13:15 PM