Rescuers searched Saturday for 27 girls missing from a riverside summer camp in the US state of Texas, after torrential rains caused devastating flooding that killed at least 43 people — with more rain pounding the region. “We have recovered 43 deceased individuals in Kerr County. Among these who are deceased we have 28 adults and 15 children,” said Kerr Country Sheriff Larry Leitha. Leitha earlier put the number of evacuated people at 850, including eight reported injured. Addressing a press conference, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he was expanding a state disaster declaration and was requesting additional federal resources…
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Bangladesh has called on the international community to assume its collective responsibility in ensuring the safe, dignified and voluntary repatriation of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar. “It is the collective duty of the international community to ensure that the rights and dignity of the Rohingya are upheld and the conditions conducive to their return are expeditiously created in Rakhine,” said Ambassador Tareq Md Ariful Islam, Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva. According to a foreign ministry press release, the ambassador made the remark while addressing the 59th session of the UN Human…
Dhaka will cooperate with the Malaysia in terror investigation while Bangladesh mission in Kuala Lumpur is in close communication with the relevant authorities regarding the issue, said the foreign ministry here today. “Bangladesh High Commission will extend necessary support to the expatriate Bangladeshis wherever needed,” said the ministry in a statement here today. “The government of Bangladesh is closely monitoring the developments, and the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur is in close communication with the Malaysian authorities,” read the statement. On June 27, Malaysia’s Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail informed that 36 Bangladeshi nationals had been detained…
BSS/AFP) Russia on Friday said that it sees no immediate diplomatic way out of the war in Ukraine, hours after pummelling the war-torn country with its largest ever drone and missile barrage of the invasion. The hours-long bombardments sent Ukrainians scurrying for shelters across the country and came after a call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which ended without a breakthrough. Trump also said he had made no progress in discussions with Putin on ending more than three years of bitter fighting since the Kremlin ordered its troops into neighbouring Ukraine. Earlier, AFP journalists in Kyiv heard drones…
US President Donald Trump said Friday that he had signed 12 trade letters to be sent out next week ahead of an impending deadline for his tariffs to take effect. “I signed some letters and they’ll go out on Monday, probably 12,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, adding that the countries that the letters would be sent to will be announced on the same day. His comments come days before steeper duties — which the president said Thursday would range between 10 and 70 percent — are set to take effect on dozens of economies, from Taiwan to…
Rescuers were desperately searching for at least 20 girls missing from a riverside summer camp, officials said Friday, after torrential rains caused a “catastrophic” flash flood that killed at least 24 people as it swept through south-central Texas. “At this point we’re at about 24 fatalities,” Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha told an evening press conference as rescue teams scrambled to locate stranded residents in the region northwest of San Antonio. Some of the dead were children, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said at a previous news conference. The county sheriff said there were “kids that are still missing,” adding…
The government has instructed all private and public schools and colleges across the country to observe August 5 as the ‘July Mass Uprising Day’ and July 16 as ‘Shaheed Day’ to commemorate the contribution of the July heroes and nurture the spirit against fascism. Secondary and Higher Secondary Division has issued an order on Thursday in this connection. The order mentioned that the government has listed August 5 as the ‘Ka’ category days while July 16 has been classified as ‘Kha’ category day by the Cabinet Division.
Fact-checking platform BanglaFact, operated by the Press Institute Bangladesh (PIB), has identified a misleading video created intentionally against a July warrior. BanglaFact’s investigation found that the video is actually on recovering weapons from the house of a former Awami League MP by army, which is being intentionally circulated involving July warriors. In a statement, BanglaFact mentioned that recently a video was circulated on social media X claiming that the army had recovered a sniper rifle from a July warrior. However, verification revealed that the video is not of a July warrior. It is actually of a raid on the house…
As July 5 last year was Friday, a weekend holiday, the coordinators of the “Anti-Discrimination Student Movement” carried out a coordinated outreach campaign, both online and offline, to engage more students in their movement to press home their four-point demand. They carried out the campaign as part of their three-day programme declared on July 4 before lifting the blockade at Shahbagh intersection in the capital protesting the High Court order to retain the quota system in government jobs. “Tomorrow (Friday), we will conduct a nationwide outreach programme both online and offline in favor of our four-point demands,” Nahid Islam, one…
Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan today said the interim government has been working to hold a good election for the welfare of the country. “The government wants to hold a good election so that voters can cast vote in favour the candidate or symbol of their choice in a fair and peaceful atmosphere,” he said. The adviser made the comments while answering to question of a journalist during his visit to the gas exploration side at Tartapara village in Madarganj Upazila of the district. About shutting down of a power plant, he said a national…
