World05 Dec 2025 | 2:50 AMBangkok, Dec 4 (UNI) Authorities in Thailand have ordered the seizure and freezing of assets valued at over 10 billion baht (USD 312 million) linked to transnational organised crime syndicates and major call-centre scam networks.
see more.. 05 Dec 2025 | 2:49 AMIstanbul, Dec 4 (UNI) Turkish security forces have seized massive quantities of illicit products and detained 169 suspects in a nationwide raid on counterfeit alcoholic beverages, authorities said on Thursday.
Police carried out synchronised operations across all 81 provinces on Wednesday, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on social media, calling it one of the most extensive anti-smuggling operations in recent years.
see more.. 05 Dec 2025 | 2:48 AMBeijing, Dec 4 (UNI) China and France should seize opportunities and expand the scope of cooperation, Chinese President Xi Jinping said while holding talks with visiting French President Emmanuel Macron in Beijing on Thursday.
see more.. 05 Dec 2025 | 2:47 AMTokyo, Dec 4 (UNI) A criminal complaint was filed against Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday, alleging that she has received a political donation from a company that exceeded the legal maximum. .
see more.. 05 Dec 2025 | 12:46 AMWashington, Dec 4 (UNI) Amid rising tensions over the very likely reigniting of hostilities between the IDF and Hamas, US President Donald Trump said that the "next phase" of the Gaza peace deal will commence "shortly," as fears emerge that his plan may be stalled or even derailed.
see more.. 04 Dec 2025 | 11:42 PMIslamabad, Dec 4 (UNI) Formally announcing the auction of the country's national air carrier, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the bidding process for state-owned Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will start on December 23.
Announcing full transparency of the PIA auction, the premier, during a meeting with business tycoons and representatives discussing the airline's privatisation, said that the auction would be televised live on national television.
see more.. 04 Dec 2025 | 7:17 PMJerusalem, Dec 4 (UNI) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tapped his military secretary and IDF officer Maj. Gen Roman Gofman as the next Mossad director, after the current chief, David Barnea, completes his tenure in June 2026.
see more.. 04 Dec 2025 | 5:40 PMDhaka, Dec 4 (UNI) Former Bangladeshi PM and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is expected to leave for London post midnight on Thursday, for advanced medical treatment, her personal physician and BNP Standing Committee member Dr AZM Zahid Hossain said today.
see more.. 04 Dec 2025 | 5:18 PMChattogram, Dec 4 (UNI) The Bangladesh Election Commission has formally requested an appointment with the President between Dec 10 - 11 for formalising the schedules of the proposed Feb 2026 elections and public referendum on the July Charter document, both of which will take place simultaneously.
see more.. 04 Dec 2025 | 5:05 PMMoscow, Dec 4 (UNI) Clarifying its official stance over the US-proposed peace plan for ending the war, Russia on Thursday confirmed that it has not dismissed the proposal, though there are certain lingering differences on key issues which need to be resolved.
see more.. 04 Dec 2025 | 3:34 PMMoscow, Dec 4 (UNI) Russia is all set to deepen its relationship with India in the aerospace sector by providing its semi cryogenic rocket engine RD 191 and also transfer the technology to manufacture the same in India.
see more.. 04 Dec 2025 | 2:45 PMBy Swadesh Roy
Dhaka, Dec 4 (UNI) More than a year after the upheaval of August 5, 2024, the day Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina flew out of the country in an Bangladesh air force aircraft and a new interim administration took charge, the country is still reckoning with the political and social forces that surfaced in the vacuum of her departure.
see more.. 04 Dec 2025 | 1:33 PMWashington, Dec 4 (UNI) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that radical Islam’s ambition to “control more territories and people” poses an “imminent threat” to the world.
see more.. 04 Dec 2025 | 11:48 AMHanoi, Dec. 4 (UNI) Vietnam's capital Hanoi will allocate 4 percent of its annual budget, equivalent to over 9 trillion Vietnamese dong (about 340 million U.S. dollars), for Science, Technology and Innovation starting in 2026, VnEconomy reported Thursday.
see more.. 04 Dec 2025 | 1:04 AMBrussels, Dec 3 (UNI) A sweeping corruption scandal engulfing the EU recently is threatening to strain the already markedly tense relations between the EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as per media reports.
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