RIYADH: A delegation of Yemeni separatists allegedly held in Riyadh said on Friday they had to dissolve their movement after a failed land grab that infuriated Saudi Arabia, but the announcement was dismissed as made under duress by their colleagues based in the UAE. Southern Transitional Council secretary general Abdulrahman al Subaihi, part of a … Read more
The visa sections of three Bangladesh missions in India have been closed temporarily on security grounds, Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain said on Friday. “What I have done is that I have asked our three missions to keep their visa sections closed for the time being. It’s a security issue,” he told reporters at the … Read more
ALEPPO: Syria’s government was in full control of Aleppo on Sunday after taking over the city’s Kurdish neighbourhoods and evacuating fighters there to Kurdish autonomous areas following days of deadly clashes. Residents of the Ashrafiyeh neighbourhood, the first of two areas to fall to the Syrian army, began returning to their homes to inspect the damage, finding … Read more
Bangladesh and Pakistan are to resume direct flights after more than a decade, Dhaka’s national airline said on Thursday. Biman Bangladesh Airlines is scheduled to fly its first Dhaka-Karachi flight on January 29 and will be operated twice weekly, the first regular flights since 2012. “We are relaunching the Dhaka-Karachi route with two weekly flights,” … Read more
Iran, which accuses the US and Israel of fomenting the ongoing unrest in the Middle Eastern country, said on Monday it strongly condemned “interventionist statements” by American President Donald Trump and other officials regarding its internal affairs. Trump has warned Tehran of strikes over the crackdown on the protests and also said on Sunday that he was … Read more
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz floated on Monday the possibility that the European Union and India could sign a landmark free trade agreement by the end of January, a move that could reshape global trade ties as protectionism rises and US-India talks remain stalled. Top EU leaders would travel to India to seal the deal if … Read more