Canadian police on Wednesday said an 18-year-old local resident carried out what Prime Minister Mark Carney called an act of "unheard-of cruelty" in murdering eight people and wounding dozens more in a remote mining town.

James Van Der Beek, a heartthrob who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, shooting to fame playing the titular character in "Dawson's Creek" and in later years mocking his own hunky persona, has died. He was 48.

Bangladesh will hold its crucial parliamentary elections today -- 18 months after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 15-year-old regime collapsed amid massive, nationwide protests.

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting at the White House that nuclear talks with Iran must continue.

Mexico's president said Wednesday that her government was investigating the US shutdown of a border airport, which US officials linked to a Mexican cartel drone breach of US airspace.

A brawl erupted in Turkey's parliament on Wednesday after lawmakers from the ruling party and the opposition clashed over the appointment of a controversial figure to the Justice Ministry in a Cabinet reshuffle.

She rose to national fame in 2020 as the deputy head of Zhaosu County after a video showed her galloping through snowy landscapes in a flowing red outfit to promote local tourism.

Good relationship with India is a "priority" and every citizen in Bangladesh is equal, there is no such thing as a minority - this was the message from Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafiqur Rahman.

The Federal Aviation Administration reopened the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas on Wednesday morning, just hours after it announced a 10-day closure that would have grounded all flights to and from the airport.

As Bangladesh gets set for one of its most consequential elections, scheduled for February 12, it is the right time to revisit the figures and moments that have shaped the country's modern history.

Thai police shot and arrested a gunman who opened fire Wednesday at a school in southernThailand, police and other authorities said.

US President Donald Trump is the only person who has been going around telling the world that India plans to stop buying oil from its all-weather, longtime ally Russia, the foreign minister of the transcontinental nation said.

Russia threatened to take military "countermeasures" if the West boosts its own military footprint on Greenland, Moscow's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will push Donald Trump on Wednesday to take a tougher stance in nuclear talks with Iran, after rushing to Washington to stiffen the US president's resolve.

On the eve of Bangladesh's elections, exiled writer Taslima Nasrin has delivered her most blistering critique in years of the country's political direction, accusing the Muhammad Yunus-led interim dispensation of empowering Islamic fundamentalists.

Russia will keep observing the missile and warhead limits in the New START nuclear treaty with the United States, which expired last week, as long as Washington continues to do the same, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.

A German tabloid has described the connection as a romantic relationship, while a source close to Schmidt characterised it as a "close friendship."

Bangladesh General Election 2026: The absence of the party that once championed close India ties has left a gap, giving the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies, including Jamaat-e-Islami, a chance to change the country's foreign policy.

A group of weary-looking Indian men carrying sports bags queued at passport control at a busy Moscow airport one recent evening after flying over 2,700 miles - and via Uzbekistan - to get work.

While the agreement with the United States was negotiated under duress, it is consistent with India's recent trade policy, which has shifted away from protectionism to focus on domestic support programs and trade deals. But more hard work lies ahead.