International

GBDESK// Coastguards have retrieved 41 bodies from Tunisian waters, a national guard official said yesterday, raising the number of victims of migrant shipwrecks off the country's coast to 210 in 10 days. The bodies were in a…

GBDESK// US President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol warned North Korea it would face a nuclear response and the "end" of the leadership there if Pyongyang uses its own arsenal. Speaking at the White House…

GBDESK// Joe Biden has addressed the elephant in the room of his 2024 re-election bid: the fact that he is already the oldest ever president and would be 86 when he stepped down if he wins. At a press conference Wednesday, the day…

GBDESK// Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh and Japan successfully elevated their bilateral relations to a strategic partnership. "We are happy that Bangladesh and Japan have successfully elevated the bilateral…

GBDESK// Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced Wednesday that she will take up fellowships at Harvard University later this year. Ardern shocked New Zealanders in January by announcing she was resigning as prime…

GBDESK// Former UN chief Ban Ki-Moon yesterday called for an end to violence in Myanmar after meeting the leader of its ruling military, which he said "must take the first steps". Ban met junta chief Min Aung Hlaing and a reformist…

GBDESK// US President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he is running for re-election in 2024, plunging at the record age of 80 into a ferocious new White House campaign "to finish the job." "Every generation has a moment where they have…

GBDESK// Italy has rescued 47 boats carrying around 1,600 migrants in the central Mediterranean sea in the last two days and brought them ashore to the island of Lampedusa. Italy's coastguard said in a statement late on Monday that it…

GBDESK// Russia's Black Sea Fleet repelled a drone attack on the Crimean port of Sevastopol in the early hours of yesterday, the Moscow-installed governor of the city said through social media. "According to the latest information:…

GBDESK// A US-brokered 72-hour ceasefire between Sudan's warring generals officially came into effect Tuesday after 10 days of urban combat killed hundreds, wounded thousands and sparked a mass exodus of foreigners. The Sudanese Armed…