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SINGAPORE: Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Tuesday (Feb 17) congratulated Bangladesh’s new Prime Minister Tarique Rahman following the “decisive victory” of his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the country’s general election last week.The BNP won the Feb 12 election in a landslide, securing a two-thirds majority in parliament.The son of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and President Ziaur Rahman, Mr Rahman was sworn in as the prime minister on Tuesday.”I wish to convey my warmest congratulations on your decisive victory in the Bangladesh general elections on Feb 12, 2026,” said Mr Wong in a letter to Mr Rahman.”The strong…

In the mid-20th century, British colonial planners envisioned a single university college for all of West Africa, to be located in Ibadan, Nigeria. Nigeria’s larger population, political influence, and central location made it the natural choice. Smaller colonies, including the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana), were expected to rely on Nigeria to train administrators, scientists, and professionals.Ghana’s leaders, however, recognized the risk. A nation preparing for self-government could not depend on another territory to educate its future leaders. Against prevailing colonial assumptions, the Gold Coast pursued its own university, treating higher education not as a luxury but as a foundation for…

Tarique Rahman has been sworn in as Bangladesh’s 11th prime minister with his 49-member cabinet, five days after his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) swept to power in the first elections since a 2024 student-led uprising.Among the cabinet members are Nurul Haque Nur and Zonayed Abdur Rahim Saki (popularly known as Zonayed Saki), first-time parliamentarians who were prominent in the uprising that ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.Nur, who was catapulted to prominence in the wake of the 2018 antijob-quota movement, and Saki, a popular left-leaning leader, are not from the BNP, which has returned to power after 20 years.Rahman, the…

 Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, is being remembered as “a role model for a generation” in the words of Marc Morial, the president of National Urban League, the civil rights organization that awarded Jackson a lifetime achievement award in 2018.”I’m remembering him as a role model for a generation of us who ran for office in the ’90s,” Morial told “CBS Mornings.” “His presidential campaigns of ’84 and ’88 were influential in how he conducted a campaign to really bring people who were locked out and left out, people who were not registered, but also because…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Savannah, Georgia elementary school teacher was killed Monday morning in a traffic collision after authorities say a man fleeing federal immigration officers crashed into her vehicle.The crash happened about 7:45 a.m. on Monday at a busy intersection, according to the Chatham County Police Department. Officers responding to the scene found two vehicles involved. Both drivers were transported to a hospital, where the female driver was pronounced dead. The male driver, identified as 38-year-old Oscar Vasquez Lopez, sustained non-life-threatening injuries.Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools announced that the victim was Dr. Linda Davis, a…

Matt Shumer joins “CBS Mornings” to discuss his now viral article, “Something Big Is Happening.” He writes that AI’s “capability for massive disruption could be here by the end of this year.” Shumer explains why he wrote the article, and his message to concerned readers.

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The annual rate of consumer inflation in Canada cooled slightly in January, according to the latest data, even as prices increased again — though at a slower pace  — for food and other essentials. The consumer price index (CPI) was 2.3 per cent last month compared with a year earlier, according to Statistics Canada. That’s down slightly from December’s reading of 2.4 per cent. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. CPI reports calculate the average rate at…

Struggling local defence companies could soon be able to access a fund worth up to $1 billion set up through contributions from the venture capital market, to help finance advanced military capabilities and possible future exports.Under the plan to be unveiled by Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy on Wednesday, the Government would ask for proposals from the private capital market to establish what would be known as the Advanced Capability Investment Fund.Over recent months numerous smaller Australian weapons companies have complained about a lack of certainty with military contracts, warning that the massive AUKUS nuclear submarine project is starving funding…

SINGAPORE: Indonesia is set to acquire its first aircraft carrier from Italy this year, Indonesian news agency Antara reported on Friday (Feb 13).The carrier, the Giuseppe Garibaldi, will be transferred to Indonesia by the Italian government as a grant, Antara said, citing the head of the Ministry of Defence’s public relations and information bureau, Brigadier General Rico Ricardo Sirait.”The Giuseppe Garibaldi is a grant from the Italian government. The Indonesian government will allocate a budget for retrofitting or adjustments to meet the operational needs of the Indonesian Navy,” Antara reported him as saying.Negotiations and administrative processes related to the vessel…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! More than 60,000 fans packed Allegiant Stadium on Night 2 of WrestleMania 41 with the buzz of the first night still filling the air and the anticipation that anything could happen on the highly anticipated WWE event of the year.WWE star Randy Orton slithered around the ring, awaiting his opponent. It could have been anybody as the former champion was left without an opponent. But that night in Las Vegas was something special. Not only for Orton who was making his 20th WrestleMania appearance, but for the man who walked through the…