United Kingdom (UK)

UK trade unions and civil society organisations held a rally where speakers called for the Bangladesh interim government to urgently ensure wage reform, grow social security for RMG workers, and build support for trade union freedoms. Photo: Courtesy
RMG

UK trade unions, NGOs urge Bangladesh to improve RMG workers’ wages

The campaigners said boosting the social security situation for garment workers in Bangladesh is essential now more than ever

A woman carries her belongings during an evacuation, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the frontline town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region, Ukraine April 12, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Anatolii Stepanov/File Photo
Europe

Britain urges Russia to commit to full ceasefire in Ukraine

UK Trade Envoy to Bangladesh Baroness Rosie Winterton met with Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka 0n 9 April 2025. Photo: CA Press Wing
Bangladesh

CA Yunus seeks greater collaboration with UK in enhancing Bangladesh's healthcare system

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer looks on, during the day he meets with Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Mottley at Downing Street in London, Britain, April 4, 2025. Photo: Eddie Mulholland/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Europe

UK PM Starmer ready to 'shelter' businesses from tariff storm

British Labour Party MP's Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed. Photo: AFP/ BSS
Europe

Britain says Israel's detention of two UK MPs 'unacceptable'

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits the community kitchen at the Newquay Orchard on February 10, 2025 in Newquay, Britain. Photo: Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Europe

UK PM Keir Starmer in talks with world leaders as stocks fall after Trump's tariffs

A file photo of Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Ahsan H Mansur. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

'My target is those who have looted my banks': BB governor chases vanished asset

A used Mini Cooper electric car is seen for sale outside the showroom of a used car dealer in Manchester, Britain, October 19, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Phil Noble/File photo
Europe

Is Britain on the cusp of another multi billion-pound consumer finance scandal?

Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur. TBS Sketch
Bangladesh

A UK PR firm tried to smear Bangladesh’s top central banker. It backfired.

Former Soviet spy Oleg Gordievsky after receiving the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and Saint George from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London, Oct. 17, 2007. Photo: Fiona Hanson/PA via AP, file photo, via UNB
Europe

Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside KGB, dies at 86

People work at an electrical substation, after a fire there wiped out the power at Heathrow International Airport, in Hayes, London, Britain, March 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Isabel Infantes
Europe

Heathrow Airport orders probe into shutdown as travellers endure days of disruption

The killer who wanted to become the most notorious school shooter of the world. Photo: BSS/AFP
World+Biz

UK teen who planned school massacre jailed for minimum 49 years

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer gestures during a Q&A session after delivering a speech on plans to reform the civil service, during a visit to Reckitt Benckiser Health Care UK Ltd in Kingston upon Hull, Britain, March 13, 2025. Photo: OLI SCARFF/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Europe

UK's Starmer calls on allies to make concrete commitments at Ukraine meeting