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The United States has claimed that China has a potential military presence in several countries around the world, including Bangladesh. This claim was made in the US Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) Global Threat Assessment report this year. Warning about China, the report said that China is likely considering a military presence in Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Cuba, Kenya, Guinea, Seychelles, Tanzania, Angola, Nigeria, Namibia, Mozambique, Gabon, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tajikistan. China has maintained its strategic goal of becoming a major power in Asia. The report claimed that the goal of taking over Taiwan, advancing China's economy and becoming technologically self-sufficient by the middle of this century is...

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 50 percent tariff on the European Union (EU). He also threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on all imported iPhones. The proposed tariff will be effective from June 1. Trump made these remarks in a post on his social media account Truth Social on Friday. According to him, the negotiation with the EU is becoming more difficult day by day. The ongoing negotiations with them are not fruitful. In this context, there is a fear that the ongoing trade war will intensify. EU leaders have been shaken after Trump's threat. EU Trade Chief Maros Sefcovic said that their 27-nation alliance is not threatening, but based on respect...

Imtiaz Ibn Sattar (Imtiaz) has been recently appointed as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Summit Corporation Limited. Summit Corporation Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore-registered Summit Power International Limited (SPI), the largest Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Bangladesh and one of the leading LNG infrastructure operators. Imtiaz Ibn Sattar will lead Summit Corporation’s Macrofinance Division, where he will be responsible for project finance, risk management, and coordination with investors, financiers, and relevant regulatory authorities. Imtiaz will report to the Board of Directors of Summit Corporation Limited and the senior leadership of Summit Power International. Prior to that, Imtiaz Ibn Sattar spent over eight years at Standard Chartered Bank in Bangladesh…

Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House in a new look for the New Year celebration. Photo: AFP The English New Year is ringing in Bangladesh. In the meantime, the farewell bell for 2024 has rung in several countries around the world; 2025 has begun. Various New Year events are underway in the countries. The English are welcoming the New Year in their own style. The first country in the world to enter the new year is the Pacific country of Kiribati. The island nation in the Oceania continent welcomed 2025 at 10 am London time (4 pm Bangladesh time). The country's time is 14 hours ahead of the United Kingdom. Due to differences in time zones, some countries in the world are a few hours ahead, some are a few hours ahead, and some are even a few hours ahead.

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war. The prisoner exchange took place under the mediation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Russian and Ukrainian officials confirmed the matter on Monday. The Russian Defense Ministry said that 150 Ukrainian soldiers held by the country had been handed over in exchange for an equal number of Russian soldiers. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 189 Ukrainian soldiers had returned home. He added that the freed soldiers included the defenders of Azovstal and Mariupol, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and Snake Island. The freed Ukrainian soldiers reunited with their families in a region of northern Ukraine. BBC journalists were present at the time. The freed Anatoly said that he was overwhelmed. In 2022, the southeastern city of…

The bodies of 11 Indian nationals have been recovered from the Gudauri ski resort in Georgia. The body of a Georgian national was also recovered from there. It is believed that all 11 Indians worked at an Indian restaurant. Georgian police have launched an investigation into the incident. According to Georgian media, the Indian Embassy in the capital Tbilisi has already expressed deep grief in a statement. The statement said, the Indian Embassy in Tbilisi is shocked by the sudden death of 11 Indian nationals in Gudauri. Our deepest condolences go out to their families. We are currently making arrangements with the local authorities to repatriate the bodies. We are keeping in touch with the families so that they can be provided with maximum assistance. Caucasus…

South Korean President Yun Suk-yeol faced impeachment in parliament, but not enough lawmakers voted against him. As a result, the controversial president was spared from impeachment for the first time this time. On Saturday, a total of 195 votes were cast in favor of impeachment in the country's parliament. This is five votes short of the required 200 votes. As a result, the impeachment process was canceled. This situation was created mainly because MPs from Yun's party, the People Power Party (PPP), boycotted the vote. Regarding this, the speaker of the parliament, Woo Eun-shik, said that the entire nation and the world are witnessing today's decision. It is unfortunate that not enough lawmakers participated in it. Earlier, Yun last Tuesday granted his country's military emergency powers…

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to hold talks with US President-elect Donald Trump to end the war in Ukraine. However, he has some conditions. For example, he does not want to make any major concessions on the territories occupied by Russia in Ukraine. And Ukraine will have to abandon its desire to join the Western military alliance NATO. This information was reported by five sources familiar with the Kremlin's thinking. Trump had already promised to end the war in Ukraine quickly. He won the US presidential election on November 5. Trump is going to sit in the White House at a time when Moscow is making major progress on the battlefield in Ukraine. This progress was made on February 24, 2022, when the war…

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the occupier of the West Bank. The Hague-based court has also issued an arrest warrant for former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant. The arrest warrant was issued on Thursday (November 21) for genocide and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, according to Al Jazeera. Details are coming soon…

Keir Starmer won the parliamentary election in Britain by a landslide in July. He took office as Prime Minister just one day after winning. However, the opposite is true in the United States. Donald Trump won the presidential election on November 5. But he will have to wait 76 days to become president again. What is the reason? Like other parliamentary democracies, the British opposition forms a shadow government through which they are ready to take power after winning the election. There is no such system in the United States. The future president of America has to start everything from scratch. He has to fill various positions in the government's vast administrative system.