US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday he expected Russia to present a Ukraine ceasefire outline within days that will show if it is serious, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of buying time. President Donald Trump spoke separately by telephone on Monday to Zelensky and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, after Russian and Ukrainian officials met in Istanbul on Friday for their first direct talks on the conflict in three years. Putin has consistently rejected proposals for a 30-day truce put forward by Kyiv and its Western allies. But Rubio said that Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov…
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LGRD adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan has said the restrictions imposed by India on import of some commodities from Bangladesh through land ports would create new opportunities to become self dependent. “The Indian restrictions however will cause some temporary loss for businessmen, but to long extent we think it will create an opportunity for Bangladesh to become self reliant”, he said. The adviser made this comment while replying to a query of a journalist following a youth rally at National Youth Institute in Savar yesterday, a Facebook post of the adviser today said. Regarding the temporary loss of the businessmen…
A US military veteran detained in Venezuela since last year was freed and returned to the United States on Tuesday, a senior White House official said. “Joe St. Clair is back in America,” special presidential envoy Richard Grenell posted on X, adding photos of himself and the freed veteran. “I met Venezuelan officials in a neutral country today to negotiate an America First strategy. This is only possible because Donald Trump puts Americans first,” Grenell added, echoing Trump’s slogan. A US Air Force veteran, St. Clair “had been wrongfully detained in Venezuela since November 2024,” according to his family, which…
Britain’s annual inflation rate surged more than expected in April as energy and water bills rose sharply, official data showed on Wednesday. The Consumer Prices Index soared to 3.5 percent last month, up from 2.6 percent in March, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement. Analysts’ consensus forecast had been for a jump to 3.3 percent. At 3.5 percent, the headline rate was the highest since the beginning of 2024, the ONS noted. “I am disappointed with these figures because I know cost of living pressures are still weighing down on working people,” finance minister Rachel Reeves said…
(BSS/AFP) – Beijing condemned on Wednesday new US chip export controls as “bullying”, warning it would take steps against measures aimed at restricting Chinese access to high-tech semiconductors. “The US measures are typical unilateral bullying and protectionism, which seriously undermine the stability of the global semiconductor industry chain and supply chain,” Beijing’s commerce ministry said in a statement.
Russia intercepted 159 drones launched by Ukraine over 12 hours at several Russian regions, including Moscow, the military said in a statement on Wednesday. The drones mostly targeted Russian regions bordering Ukraine and were launched from 8:00 pm Moscow time (1700 GMT) Tuesday until 8:00 am on Wednesday, said a defence ministry statement.
(BSS/AFP) – Clashes between two armed groups left six civilians dead near Mexico’s crime-plagued beachside city of Acapulco, authorities said Tuesday. The violence erupted on Monday night in a town called Kilometro 30 located on a highway to Mexico City, the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said. The victims were five men and an elderly woman who were caught in the crossfire, said municipal commissioner Adan Casarrubias. Three people were injured. Soldiers and police found weapons in an armored vehicle in the town, where several cars were set ablaze. Armed men in at least three vehicles were involved in the confrontation,…
A British team of veteran ex-special forces soldiers summited Everest on Wednesday, expedition organisers said, in a bid to fly from London, climb the highest peak and return home within seven days. The four men, who include government minister Alistair Carns, left London on Friday, pre-acclimatised to the low oxygen at high altitudes — including the controversial assistance of xenon gas, a method that has raised eyebrows in the mountaineering community. The men, who slept in special low-oxygen tents before departure from Britain, are raising funds for veterans’ charities. “All four of them, along with a photographer and five Sherpa…
Ten months after his disputed reelection, Venezuela’s authoritarian leftist President Nicolas Maduro is aiming to complete his sweep of power in parliamentary and regional elections on Sunday that the opposition has vowed to boycott. Venezuelans are called on to elect 24 state governors and 285 national assembly members, but turnout is expected to be low. Many opposition supporters lost any remaining faith they had in the electoral process after July’s presidential election, in which Maduro claimed a third term despite the opposition’s vote tally showing a clear win for its candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. That election, and the deadly crackdown…
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the border region of Kursk on Tuesday, several weeks after Russian forces pushed Ukrainian troops out of the area, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. “Vladimir Putin made a working visit the previous day to the Kursk region,” where he met with the interim governor and others, the Kremlin said in a statement. Ukrainian troops seized control of parts of the Kursk region in August 2024, but were pushed out by Moscow’s forces, with help from North Korean soldiers, by the end of April. Images aired on the Rossia 24 channel showed a relaxed and smiling…
