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Bangladesh’s ex- foreign minister Hasan Mahmud has been arrested at the Dhaka airport and handed over to the military, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Hamas has named Yahya Sinwar its new chief after Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran last week.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (IEA) will convene an open-ended extraordinary meeting of its Executive Committee at the foreign ministerial level at its secretariat in Jeddah on Wednesday.

A Khyber Pakhtunkhwa business leader has regretted the plummeting trade volume between Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent years.

The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced its intention to join the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

At least five US personnel have been wounded in a rocket strike on an American military base in Iraq, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

Foreign Ministers of the Group Seven (G7) countries have called on all parties involved in the current conflict in the Middle East to avoid actions that could lead to an escalation, a media report said on Monday.

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi travelled to Iran and met the country president amid US and its Arab allies efforts to prevent a wider war in the Middle East, a media report said on Monday.

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) secretary general Hissein Brahim Taha has condemned the ongoing Israeli military aggression in Gaza Strip and all Palestinian territories as against international laws and relevant resolutions of the United Nations.

Amid deadly protests against the job quota system, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid stood down and left the country on Monday, media reports say.

More than 90 people have lost their lives in anti-government protests across Bangladesh, says a media report.

Iran and Hezbollah could launch attacks on Israel "as early as Monday" in retaliation for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and the Lebanese group commander Fuad Shukr.