France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heat wave, the country’s public health agency said Sunday, as Europeans elsewhere were suffering through yet another day of new temperature highs that sparked wildfires in Germany and had Berlin police using water cannons to cool down the crowds.Temperature records were ...more

 The death toll from twin earthquakes rose Friday to 920 in Venezuela, where tens of thousands were reported missing as a desperate and slow-moving search for survivors was boosted by international rescue teams.Caracas residents jeered interim leader Delcy Rodriguez during her visit to a devastated neighborhood, as fury over the perceived lack of an official ...more

Senior CorrespondentDeposits held by Bangladeshis in Swiss banks surged by nearly 41 percent in 2025, reaching their highest level in four years and reigniting concerns over capital flight and money laundering despite ongoing efforts to strengthen financial governance.According to the latest annual report released by the Swiss National Bank (SNB), the amount of money linked ...more

Three months after the United States and Israel staged an attack on Iran, a US blockade and Tehran's grip on the Strait of Hormuz have created a deadlock, with neither side bending, economic pain deepening and the risk of ​renewed war rising.A growing concern among policymakers is not whether a deal is near, but how ...more

In a historic political shift, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is on the verge of forming its first-ever government in West Bengal. As of Monday afternoon (May 4, 2026), counting trends show the BJP leading in 194 seats, comfortably crossing the majority mark of 148 in the 294-seat assembly. The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) is facing ...more

Vote counting is in progress across 293 constituencies in the 2026 Assembly elections covering five Indian regions West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.Across the country, 823 seats are being contested in what is expected to reshape India’s political balance.West Bengal trendIn West Bengal, early counting trends show the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) moving ...more

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says the country will boost ties with Vietnam, with a focus on energy and critical minerals.Takaichi met her Vietnamese counterpart, Le Minh Hung, on Saturday in Hanoi, where they signed six agreements on issues ranging from infrastructure to agriculture to space cooperation.“The two sides identified economic security as a new ...more

President Donald Trump has sparked a constitutional firestorm by dismissing the need for congressional authorization to continue military operations against Iran, claiming the 1973 War Powers Resolution is "totally unconstitutional."As a critical 60-day deadline expired this past Friday, the administration argued that the clock has effectively "paused" due to a fragile ceasefire. However, legal experts ...more

It is not clear when exactly the call with Bartiromo took place. It was also not immediately clear what time Trump was referring to. Trump has warned that if a deal is not signed, he will blow up every power plant and bridge in Iran.Although Iran has not yet announced any decision on signing the ...more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday told a German broadcaster that US peace negotiators "have no time for Ukraine" because of the war in Iran, and bemoaned disruptions of deliveries of US arms.Zelensky told public broadcaster ZDF that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who have helped broker talks with Moscow on ending Russia's war on ...more