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The protesters blocked the main roads at Shahbagh, bringing vehicular movement in the area to a complete halt

The 60-year-old Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman returned to the country on December 25, 2025 after living in London since 2008

The Foreign Ministry in a statement warned that any attempt to provoke China on the Taiwan issue would be met with a firm response

Born on December 26, 1893, Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary and the long-time Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. A quiz on the man and his times

This is the fifth Cabinet expansion by Prime Minister Sushila Karki, who leads an interim government mandated to hold the general elections on March 5

Local officials said it may have been caused by a suicide bomber or explosives placed there

Kyodo News agency and other media said several people were stabbed by a man with a knife at a rubber factory in the city of Mishima

2025 reminded the world that even longfrozen fault lines can shift in an instant. From South Asia to the Middle East, from Africa to Eastern Europe, 2025 was a reminder that conflicts remain deeply interconnected each reshaping borders, societies, and futures.

Rescue 1122 teams rushed to the spot and shifted the injured to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital in Tank, officials said

Mr. Trump has unleashed an extensive diplomatic push to end the war, but his efforts have run into sharply conflicting demands by Moscow and Kyiv

This is President Al Nahyan's first official visit to Pakistan as the UAE president and he is accompanied by a high-level delegation

Authorities said he siphoned more than $700 million into his personal bank accounts from the 1MDB fund

The Balkan nation has been politically deadlocked since the inconclusive vote in February, which outgoing premier Albin Kurti's Vetevendosje (VV) party won but without enough seats to form a government

From 6:08 am to 7:15 am, the Thai military deployed F-16 fighter jets to drop as many as 40 bombs, to intensify its bombardment in the area of Chok Chey village, Cambodia's Defence Ministry said in a statement

Prosecutors have accused the ousted President of trying to block investigators seeking to arrest him in January by barricading himself inside the presidential compound

The crash occurred on Christmas Eve in the town of Zontecomatlan, while the vehicle travelled from Mexico City to the village of Chicontepec

The budget for the year starting from April, to be submitted to parliament early next year, will total a record 122.3 trillion yen ($784.63 billion), exceeding this years initial budget of 115.2 trillion yen.

Residents around wildfire burn scar zones from the Airport Fire in Orange County were under evacuation orders.

Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front movement that opposes Putin and is affiliated with the Communist Party, was arrested last year.

The missile and shell production sector is of paramount importance in bolstering up the war deterrent, says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

The U.S. military's Africa Command said on X the strike was conducted at the request of Nigerian authorities and killed multiple ISIS militants

The deceased, identified as Amrit Mondal, had allegedly formed a criminal gang and was involved in extortion and other criminal activities

Which tankers did the U.S. target near Venezuela? How does the U.S. use financial systems to enforce sanctions? What role do insurance and classification societies play? What role does the Office of Foreign Assets Control have?

The mother-son reunion on Bangladeshi soil comes after more than 17 years, although they have met several times in London, local media reports said

Israel has kept up strikes on Lebanon and has also maintained troops in five southern areas it deems strategic despite a November 24 ceasefire

The Holy Redeemer Church of Jenin posted photos of the arson, showing the skeleton of a synthetic Christmas tree that had been gutted of the green plastic branches

King Charles and Queen Camilla, along with the Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate, and their children, Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte, and extended family walked to St. Mary Magdalene Church

His call for unity came as Jamaat-e-Islami, the BNP's coalition partner during its 2001-2006 tenure in power, has emerged as its main rival in the upcoming polls

The strikes killed five members of the jihadist group, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Pope Leo has also lamented the conditions for Palestinians in Gaza several times recently and told journalists last month that the only solution in the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people must include a Palestinian state

2025 was the year the worlds youngest citizens refused to stay silent. From Asia to Africa, Europe to Latin America Gen Z stepped out of their screens and onto the streets, demanding something simple and revolutionary: accountability.

China accuses the United States of distorting its defence policy in an attempt to prevent an improvement in China-India relations

Two Indians and a Thai woman were arrested in Kathmandu over cocaine possession, with one suspect allegedly swallowing 29 pills to evade police, which were later recovered after hospitalization, officials said.

Foreign governments will not restrict the right of Jews to live in the Land of Israel, and any such call is morally wrong and discriminatory against Jews, says Foreign Minister Gideon Saar

The voting of local council members, to be conducted across Mogadishu's 16 districts, has been organised by the country's federal government but rejected by the Opposition parties, which have called the election flawed and one-sided

Istanbul Police obtained information that Islamic State members had planned attacks in Trkiye, against non-Muslims in particular, during Christmas and New Year celebrations, said the prosecutors office

Kilimanjaro regions head of police, Simon Maigwa, reported that the helicopter was on a medical rescue mission.

On Dec. 24, the giant Christmas tree returned to Manger Square, temporarily replacing the wartime nativity scene of baby Jesus surrounded by rubble and barbed wire in a homage to Gaza's suffering.

Indian Ambassador to the U.S., Vinay Mohan Kwatra, underlines growing 'Atmanirbharta' in the space sector

His return to Bangladesh comes after a gap of 17 years amid a fresh wave of unrest and political instability that has been gripping the country

Mr. Albanese plans to create a special honours system for individuals who risked their safety during the beachside Hanukkah attack, including Ahmed al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian Muslim

Mr. Kim visited a shipyard to inspect the construction of what the North describes as an 8,700-ton-class nuclear-propelled submarine

We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa, says U.S. President Donald Trump

I think its tragic, and I think everybody respects and is very sad for what happened, and I think people here are out on the beach, because its like a celebration but everybody has got it in their memories and everybody is respectful of what happened, says British tourist Mark Conroy

The Christmas Eve attack is the latest in a series of attacks in Nigeria's troubled northern region, where the country is battling multiple armed groups, including Boko Haram and its splinter group, Islamic State West Africa Province, among others

Releases so far have contained extensive redactions, angering some Republicans and doing little to defuse a scandal threatening the party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections