President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday (March 20, 2025) calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an … Read more
A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who was critically injured in a factional clash between two groups of the BNP, died. File | Photo Credit: AP A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who was critically … Read more
Image used for representation | Photo Credit: Reuters The family of a former Boeing quality control manager who police say killed himself after lawyers questioned him for days about his whistleblowing on alleged jumbo jet defects sued the airplane maker Thursday (March 21, 2025). Boeing subjected John Barnett to a “campaign of harassment, abuse and … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store in Oslo, Norway, Thursday, March 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged EU leaders on Thursday (March 20, 2025) to step up weapon supplies to Ukraine and keep pressuring Russia, as officials from Kyiv and Moscow … Read more
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, March 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP European Union Foreign Policy chief Kaja Kallas urged EU leaders on Thursday (March 20, 2025) to pledge 5 billion euros ($5.4 billion) for artillery shells for Ukraine to … Read more
Israeli strikes killed at least 85 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday (March 20, 2025), according to local health officials. Hours later, Hamas fired three rockets at Israel without causing casualties, in the first such attack since Israel ended their ceasefire with a surprise bombardment of Gaza on Tuesday (March 18, 2025). … Read more
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and John Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, center left, speak to General Nick Perry Chief of Joint Operations, left, in front of a Ukraine map as they visit a military base to meet planners mapping out next steps in the Coalition of the Willing in Northwood, London, Thursday, March … Read more
Donald Trump has said that he believes India will lower its tariffs on American goods. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump has said that he believes India will lower its tariffs on American goods, even as he reiterated his threat to impose reciprocal tariffs on the country starting April 2. In an … Read more
A file image of President-Designate of the forthcoming climate talks Andre Lago | Photo Credit: Reuters With deepening divisions among countries over trade, the exit of the United States from the Paris Agreement, and multiplying disasters from global warming, the President-Designate of the forthcoming climate talks in Belem, Brazil, Andre Lago, a former Ambassador of … Read more
The King David Hotel of Jerusalem is one of the landmark buildings of the contested city. Built with locally sourced pink limestone and opened in 1931 by Ezra Mosseri, a wealthy Egyptian Jewish banker, the hotel, overlooking the Old City that is holy for all three Abrahamic faiths, is a standing example of both Israel’s … Read more