June 2021

GBNEWS24 DESK// The wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman pleaded guilty on Thursday to helping her husband smuggle narcotics into the United States. Emma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, faces up…

GBNEWS24 DESK// The Indian state of Bihar has increased its COVID-19 death toll after the discovery of thousands of unreported cases, raising concerns that many more fatalities were not officially recorded. The health department in…

GBNEWS24 DESK// The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights warned on Friday of intensifying violence in Myanmar and condemned the army's "outrageous" use of heavy weapons, while urging a wider diplomatic effort to pressure the…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region face systematic state-organized mass imprisonment, torture and persecution amounting to crimes against…

GBNEWS24 DESK// The United States will provide over 10 lakh jabs of AstraZeneca vaccine to Bangladesh under the global programme, COVAX. "The 10,00,800 Astrazeneca vaccine doses from the USA will arrive soon under Covax programme," said…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Jhenidah Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has launched an investigation into the allegation of former police super Babul Akhter's involvement in police sub-inspector Akram murder. Following the arrest of Babul…

GBNEWS24 DESK// The man alleged to have slapped French President Emmanuel Macron in the face ran a club for enthusiasts of medieval swordsmanship and had no previous criminal record, sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday. A…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Details claiming to reveal how little income tax US billionaires pay have been leaked to an news website. ProPublica says it has seen the tax returns of some of the world's richest people, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday labeled the killing of four members of a Muslim family, who were run down by a man driving a pick-up truck, as a "terrorist attack," which he said was carried out with…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Gender experts demanded implementation of the policy for women empowerment and elimination of existing gender discrimination through formulating specific work plan and budget allocation and giving special focus on women’s…