Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will outline the government’s revenue and policy goals in his first full-year budget on Monday, seeking to extend the country’s recovery from a financial crisis and signal its alignment with a $2.9 billion IMF bailout program. A severe drain in dollar reserves plunged the island nation into turmoil […]
Read MoreU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told South Korea’s Foreign Minister that the United States wants to maintain a stable trust relationship with South Korea regardless of the domestic situation of either country, the South Korean ministry said in a statement on Friday. Rubio and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul agreed in a meeting […]
Read MoreU.S.-Philippine military exercises are longstanding, “purely defensive” and intended to maintain force readiness and preserve regional security, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said on Saturday. The spokesperson was responding in an email to a request for comment after China’s defence ministry urged Manila on Friday to withdraw U.S. Typhon intermediate-range missiles. The Typhon launchers, part […]
Read MoreChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that China will “play along to the end” if the United States is bent on suppressing the country even though Beijing does not wish to be in conflict with Washington. Wang, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, said China would respond resolutely to unilateral “bullying” practices, but […]
Read MoreThe Cook Islands said on Saturday that it signed a comprehensive strategic partnership deal with China, a move expected to raise concerns in New Zealand with which it has constitutional ties. Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and Chinese Premier Li Qiang signed the deal in Harbin, the capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, Brown’s […]
Read MorePrime Minister Narendra Modi, on his first visit to Washington under Trump 2.0, discussed reciprocal tariffs, trade, military cooperation, and geopolitics with the US President in the White House on Thursday. In the backdrop of Donald Trump threatening new tariffs on foreign countries, the Modi government was prepared, having reduced the import duties on Bourbon, […]
Read MoreFrench President Emmanuel Macron has rejected US President Donald Trump’s plan for “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza, calling for “respect” for the Palestinians and their Arab neighbors. He made the call in an interview with US media outlet CNN. French President Emmanuel Macron said, “You can’t tell two million people, ‘Okay, now guess what? You’re going […]
Read MoreTwo US Navy ships transited the Taiwan Strait this week, the first time a US ship has sailed through the Taiwan Strait since Donald Trump took office. China has reacted sharply to the presence of US ships in the Taiwan Strait, which Beijing says poses a security risk. The US Navy sometimes accompanies allied ships […]
Read MorePakistan is not afraid of India’s military power, the country’s Army Chief General Asim Munir recently commented. In addition, he also warned of fighting for Kashmir if necessary. In the meantime, India has focused on its own defense this time. Some Indian media outlets reported that India has signed a new agreement with the UK […]
Read MoreA Dubai real estate company has announced the sale of a luxury duplex penthouse in the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. The price of this 21,000 square feet penthouse has been set at $ 51 million or about 620 crore taka in Bangladeshi currency. In this penthouse, users will be able to see the […]
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