2021

GBNEWS24DESK// German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued an urgent warning on pandemic management on Thursday to the new government coming in to succeed her, imploring it to take quick, decisive measures as the country's total death toll…

GBNEWS24DESK// Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock is to become Germany's first woman foreign minister, her party announced Thursday, as the country's incoming coalition government takes shape. The 40-year-old mother-of-two is…

GBNEWS24DESK// Brazilian football great Pele paid tribute to his fellow legend Diego Maradona Thursday on the first anniversary of the Argentine's death at age 60. "One year without Diego. Friends forever," Pele wrote on Instagram,…

GBNEWS24DESK// Students of Notre Dame College have staged a protest rally in front of Nagar Bhaban in the capital city demanding justice for the death of their classmate Naim Hasan. The agitating students entered into Nagar Bhaban with…

GBNEWS24DESK// Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has termed the approval of the resolution by the United Nations to graduate Bangladesh from the LDC status as a 'great milestone' towards the development march of the country, reports…

GBNEWS24DESK// A day after the death of Notre Dame College student Naim Hasan, a former employee of a national daily has been killed as a garbage truck of Dhaka North City Corporation hit him in city’s Panthapath area. The deceased was…

GBNEWS24DESK// Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday reportedly joined the front line where government forces are battling rebels from the Tigray region, prompting US-led international calls for a diplomatic solution and…

GBNEWS24DESK// COVID-19 mortality is 50 times as high as that of swine flu, deputy director of the Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Denis Logunov, said on Wednesday. "Mortality from acute respiratory…

GBNEWS24DESK// Libya's top electoral body on Wednesday disqualified the son and onetime heir apparent of the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi from running for president in elections to be held next month, citing his previous convictions,…

GBNEWS24DESK// A fire at a coal mine in Russia's Siberia killed 11 people and injured more than 40 others on Thursday, with dozens of others still trapped, authorities said, reports Associated Press. Efforts to rescue those trapped in…