Dhaka, November 1 (IANS) Bangladesh will need at least $12.5 billion, approximately 3 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP), in the medium term for climate action, according to a World Bank report.
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San Francisco, October 31 (IANS): New Twitter boss Elon Musk has sought to revive the microblogging site's short-form video app Vine in the TikTok era.
Chief Twit Musk posted a poll on his Twitter accoun
Brasilia, October 31 (IANS): Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated sitting President Jair Bolsonaro in the second round of the presidential elections, paving the way for his third four-y
Kiev, October 31 (IANS): Russia on Monday launched massive missile strikes across Ukraine, including the capital Kiev, causing power and water outages, according to officials in the war-torn country.
At leas
Washington, October 30 (IANS) US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she is "heartbroken and traumatised" by the violent attack on her husband in which he suffered a fractured skull and injuries to hi
Muridke, October 30 (IANS) Responding to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's claim that PTI chairman sought talks on the new army chief's appointment, he said that he does not talk to "boot po
Colombo, October 30 (IANS): Former Tamil rebel, who was imprisoned for the attempted assassination of former Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary-turned-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, won the Best Tamil Novelist aw
Seoul, October 30 (IANS): Halloween stampede in Seoul's Itaewon district is the deadliest stampede ever in South Korea's history, with at least 151 dead and 82 injured.
The tragedy happened on Saturd
San Francisco, October 29 (IANS) Telegram's CEO has accused Apple of "destroying dreams and ruining entrepreneurship" because of its App Store policies.
The company charged a 30 per cent fee on
Helsinki, October 29 (IANS) Ways to further enhance cooperation between Finland and Sweden, especially on their path to membership of the NATO, topped the agenda of talks held in Helsinki by Sweden's newly-
Manila, October 29 (IANS) The death toll from severe tropical storm Nalgae, which unleashed floods and set off landslides in several parts of the Philippines, has climbed to 72, a spokesperson for a government
Washington, October 29 (IANS): With just 11 days left for the November 8 midterm polls in the US, former President Donald Trump has gone from bad to worse in approval ratings, while incumbent President Joe Bide
Moscow, October 28 (IANS) The world faces "probably the most dangerous" decade since the end of World War Two, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned.
He made the remarks on Thursday while add
Manila, October 28 (IANS) At least 31 people died on Friday and several others were reported missing after a strong overnight downpour flooded a number of towns in the Philippines' Maguindanao province, an
New Delhi, October 27 (IANS): As intensifying climate impacts across the globe hammer home the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall rapidly, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report finds that th
Tehran, October 27 (IANS) At least 13 people were reportedly killed and 21 others injured in a "terrorist attack" at the Shahcheragh religious shrine in Iran's southern city of Shiraz.
One woma
London, October 27 (IANS) Indian-origin Labour MP Nadia Whittome has deleted a tweet, which she posted earlier this week saying Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister "isn't a win for Asian representation
Seoul, October 27 (IANS) More than three quarters of North Korea's missile tests conducted since 1984 were deemed to be successful, new data revealed on Thursday,.
The US-based James Martin Center for No
Islamabad, October 27 (IANS): Lt. Gen. Nadeem Anjum, Director-General of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and chief of the Inter Services Public Relations, (ISPR) Lieutenant General Babar Iftik
United Nations, October 27 (IANS): The UN human rights expert on Myanmar has said that the extremist Rohingya organisation that has been involved in the massacre of Hindus in Myanmar should be apprehended and h