In its manifesto for the upcoming elections, the Bangladesh Jamaat-E-Islami called for peaceful and cooperative relations with neighbouring countries, including India, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Thailand.

Bangladesh is heading into its first election after a student-led uprising forced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee the country a year-and-a-half ago.

The Kremlin said on Thursday it did not want to waste time answering questions about unproven suggestions in Western media and by Poland's premier that late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein may have been some sort of Russian intelligence asset.

Russia and the United States have agreed to resume high-level military contacts at two-day Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, in a major step of rapprochement between the world's top nuclear powers.

Turkish entrepreneur Gokce Guven, founder and CEO of fintech startup Kalder, has been charged with multiple counts of fraud, including securities fraud and visa fraud, by the US Department of Justice.

Hundreds of midwives protested in Athens Thursday over new restrictions on how they work in hospitals that mean they will not be able to deliver babies without a doctor's supervision.

President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey is working hard to prevent US-Iran tensions from tipping the Middle East into a new conflict, as the two adversaries signal that disagreement over Tehran's missile arsenal threatens to torpedo a deal.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she believed elections could be held in her country later this year, speaking to Politico in an interview released on Thursday.

The United States and Russia are closing in on a deal to observe the New START nuclear arms control treaty beyond its expiration on Thursday, Axios reported, citing three sources familiar with the talks.

Oil smuggling has been so enormously profitable that no matter how many obstacles Washington and Brussels put up, the barrels kept flowing.

A client who duped a sex worker with fake proof of payment has been convicted of rape in Belgium, in a ruling the Antwerp court of appeal called unprecedented on Thursday.

Amnesty International says North Korea is executing people, including young citizens, for watching <i>Squid Game</i> and listening to K-pop.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office posted a celebratory message on World Hijab Day, calling the head covering the "identity and pride" of Muslim women.

With Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League barred from contesting, the political battlefield has opened to new contenders.

A 'bad day', 'perplexing', 'absolute bloodbath', 'bizarre decision', 'setback for journalism'... the reactions to the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post's brutal decision to lay off a third of newsroom staff worldwide, around 300 people.

Democratic US senators on Thursday urged the Pentagon to conduct an immediate review of SpaceX amid allegations that Chinese investors have secretly acquired stakes in the closely held rocket maker, citing potential national security risks.

Austria's Ambassador to India, Robert Zischg, described the newly announced EU-India Free Trade Agreement political declaration as the "mother of all deals" - one that, he says, will "affect close to two billion people".

An Indian teacher and activist known for creating hundreds of learning centers and painting educational murals across the walls of slums won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize on Thursday.

Bangladesh will allow postal voting for the first time in its history in the February 12 national election, the Election Commission announced last month.

The US Justice Department has publicly released thousands more documents from the estate of registered sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.