Officials said Saturday that rivers in Bangladesh burst their banks, causing the worst flooding in the country’s northeast in nearly two decades, stranding roughly two million people. Floodwater rushing from India’s northeast breached a major embankment on the Barak River, inundating at least 100 villages at Zakiganj in Bangladesh, said Mosharraf Hossain, the chief government … Read more
Following a violent spree in Buffalo, US President Joe Biden issued a powerful condemnation of racist extremism, calling on Americans to remove the hatred that remains a “stain on the soul of America.” “A lone gunman, armed with weapons of war and a hateful soul, shot and killed 10 innocent people in cold blood at a grocery … Read more
WASHINGTON: The United States has offered to pay unspecified compensation to relatives of 10 people in Afghanistan including seven children who were killed by mistake in a US drone strike as American forces were completing their withdrawal. In a statement on Friday, the Pentagon also said it was working with the State Department to relocate … Read more
