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30-05-2026 DHAKA: Akira was always a fast learner, her father Al Amin says with pride. At 6 months she was already saying her first words. At just over 4 years old, she had started to say some words in English. He stops, his voice catching. “She was never short of …

30-05-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India and the United States have signed a framework agreement to secure supplies of critical minerals and rare earths, including their mining and processing, according to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and the US embassy in India. Tuesday’s deal was finalized between Indian External …

30-05-2026 VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV says artificial intelligence must be “disarmed” as world leaders and private companies increase the technology’s use in many human activities, including war. On Monday, in the first encyclical of his papacy, titled Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial …

30-05-2026 WASHINGTON: The administration of US President Donald Trump has proposed a guideline for federal workers that would require the employees to sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent them from speaking to journalists without prior authorization. The new proposal, announced on Tuesday by the Office of Personnel Management, says that the …

30-05-2026 MELBOURNE: A group of 19 women and children with alleged links to ISIL (ISIS) has returned to Australia, with the government warning that anyone found to have engaged in criminal activity will be prosecuted. The six women and 13 children arrived from a Syrian refugee camp on Tuesday, with …

29-05-2026 WASHINGTON: The US and Iran still need to work out several sticking points before an agreement on the war can be reached, Vice-President JD Vance has said. Asked by media if President Donald Trump was close to signing a deal, Vance said it was too early to say “when …

29-05-2026 LONDON: A UK radio station has apologized to Britain’s King Charles III and its listeners after accidentally and incorrectly announcing the death of the monarch. “Due to a computer error at our main studio the Death of a Monarch procedure, which all UK stations hold in readiness while hoping …

29-05-2026 TEHRAN: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed in a statement that its forces downed an MQ-9 Reaper drone and opened fire on an F-35 fighter jet and another drone that that had entered Iranian airspace. In a statement, the IRGC did not reveal when the incidents took place. …

29-05-2026 Warning: You may find some of the graphic detail in this story disturbing PARIS: A school assistant will go on trial in Paris on Tuesday accused of sexual mistreatment of young children in his care. It is the latest case in a year-long scandal that has shaken the school …

29-05-2026 TAIPEI: Taiwan has said it is monitoring the second Chinese “joint combat readiness patrol” near the island in a week, accusing Beijing of being the sole source of instability in the Asia Pacific. In a post on social media on Tuesday, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence said its forces …