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Turkey's annual inflation rate is expected to have hit 30.6% in December, according to a Reuters poll, breaching the 30% level for the first time since 2003 as prices rose due to record lira volatility. The 30.6% median forecast of 13 economis..
The lira tumbled almost 8% against the dollar on Monday amid persisting investor concern over Turkey's monetary policy, having surged more than 50% last week after billions of dollars of state-backed market interventions. The lira was also sup..
The Taliban have said Afghan women seeking to travel long distances by road should be offered transport only if accompanied by a male relative. The directive, issued on Sunday, is the latest curb on women's rights since the Islamist group seiz..
The incident happened early in the morning near Jhakakathi, 250 kilometres south of Bangladesh capital Dhaka. At least 37 people died when an overcrowded night ferry caught fire in Bangladesh on Friday, police said, as terrified passengers leaped ..
The United Nations Mideast peace envoy warned against escalating tensions on Friday after Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli in the occupied West Bank and Jewish settlers were accused of attacking Arab villages in the aftermath. Yehuda Dimentman..
QNB Group, received the award for "Strongest Bank in the Arab World 2021" during the Banking Excellence and Achievement Awards ceremony recently organized by the World Union of Arab Bankers (WUAB) in Beirut during the celebration of the 15t..
New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world's toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to extinguish smoking were taking too long. People aged 14 and un..
Bangladesh sentenced 20 university students to death on Wednesday for the brutal 2019 murder of a young man who criticized the government on social media. The battered body of Abrar Fahad, 21, was found in his university dormitory hours after he w..
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Bangladesh and India, the Embassies of India and Bangladesh in Doha jointly celebrated the ‘Maitri Diwas’ (India-Bangladesh Friendship Day) to commemorate 50 yea..
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