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Officials give a final check before dispatching the ballot boxes to voting centres, a day ahead of the national election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 11, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Why is Bangladesh holding a referendum alongside its general election?

The referendum focuses on implementing the 'July Charter' drafted after the 2024 uprising to establish good governance, democracy, and social justice through institutional reforms, and to...

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein are seen in this image released by the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, US, on December 19, 2025 as part of a new trove of documents from its investigations into the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Photo: US Justice Department/Handout via REUTERS

How Jeffrey Epstein built a fortune through deception and influence

A car carrier transporting vehicles made by Kia Motors, which is part of South Korea's biggest automaker company Hyundai Motor, travels past blossoming cherry trees near Pyeongtaek port in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, April 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/ File Photo

Why has President Trump threatened to raise US tariffs on South Korea again?

Egypt’s Siwa Salt Lakes. Photo: Tripadvisor

Egypt's Siwa Salt Lakes: why you float instead of sinking

A flag reading "RESIST" flaps in the foreground as federal agents stand guard near a vehicle during a demonstration outside the Whipple Federal Building, more than a week after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good on 7 January, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, on 15 January 2026. Photo: Tim Evans/Reuters

Explainer: What is the Insurrection Act and why does Trump wants to unleash it?

Iranian demonstrators gather in a street during a protest over the collapse of the currency's value, in Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2026. Photo: Stringer/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Why Iran's clerical establishment still holds as protests rage

Representational Image of human trafficking/ Collected

Why and how Nepal has become a new trafficking route

Myanmar soldiers from the 77th light infantry division walk along a street during a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, February 28, 2021. Picture taken February 28, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

Why is Myanmar's junta holding an election during a civil war?

Men visit an exhibition displaying destroyed Russian military vehicles and weapons in front of the St. Michael's Cathedral on a foggy morning, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine December 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

How does the EU want to use Russia's frozen assets for Ukraine?

A Thailand's mobile artillery unit operates after Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery on Friday as their worst fighting in more than a decade stretched for a second day, in Surin, Thailand, July 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Why are Thailand and Cambodia fighting along their border?

A woman carries a dog and a mat as she evacuates to a shelter, following fresh military clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along parts of their disputed border, in Buriram province, Thailand, December 8, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Prajoub Sukprom

How Thailand-Cambodia conflict went from Trump-backed ceasefire to airstrikes

Estimates of the Syrians still missing after the civil war range from 140,000 to as many as 300,000Image: Yamam Al Shaar/REUTERS

One year after Assad's toppling: What has Syria achieved?

This is the very Purbachal plot allocated to Sheikh Hasina and her family. It is located on Road 203 in Sector 27 of the Purbachal New Town Project, enclosed with red bricks. The photo was taken on Thursday (27 November). Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain/TBS

Why one 60-katha plot triggered 6 ACC cases against Sheikh family?