More than a million pilgrims joined Islam’s most important rite under a beating sun on Wednesday, as the hajj kicked off with the Saudi hosts scrambling to avoid last year’s 1,000-plus deaths in sweltering heat.

The Kremlin states that the talks are ‘extremely complex’ and it’s impractical to expect a quick breakthrough, contrary to the western world’s stance.

After removing the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from currency notes, the interim government in Bangladesh has made yet another move to erase the legacy of the 1971 liberation struggle which was led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Canada’s Strong Borders Act aims to bolster border security and curb fraudulent asylum claims, particularly from international students. The bill introduces stricter timelines for asylum applications and enhances information sharing between immigration…

At least 16 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Wednesday across the Gaza Strip, including at least 12 people killed while sheltering in a tent housing displaced Gazans in the southern city of Khan Younis, the territory’s civil def…

FBI has charged two Chinese researchers, Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu, for smuggling a dangerous fungus into America. The pathogen, Fusarium graminearum, is a potential agroterrorism agent. Jian and Liu allegedly planned to research it at the Universit…