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Authorities found a court employee dead, hanging from a tree in Feni. The man was Enamul Haque, who worked as the head clerk for a local sessions judge. His body was discovered near the Fatehpur railway tracks after a local resident who could not speak raised the alarm. His son, Ehsanul Haque...

Five people got hurt after a homemade explosive went off during a fight between political groups in Shariatpur. The National Citizen Party was doing a protest march for their guys, Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, who was killed, and Motaleb Shikder, who was shot. Things blew up, literally, when an...

Cops in Khulna picked up a woman named Tonima, also called Tonni, for a shooting. The victim was Motaleb Shikder, a top guy with the National Citizen Party's worker wing in that region. He got shot inside a rented apartment near Sabujbagh Surgical Clinic on Al Aqsa Mosque Sarani. The place was...

More than fifty people got hurt in a big village fight over in Habiganj. It happened in Nabiganj upazila, in a place called Mandarkandi. Two local factions, one led by Samu and Abdul Hair and the other by Muhit Mia, have been beefing over farmland and general clout for a while. Things finally...

Well, here's a mess. A retired Indian Army officer, Major Sammer Singh Toor, is apparently making death threats online against a Bangladeshi political activist named Hasnat Abdullah. This follows the recent killing of another activist, Osman Hadi. The threat was posted publicly and got a lot of...

The cops in Bangladesh are digging into a political murder and stumbled onto a huge money trail. The main guy they want, Faisal Karim Masud, also called Daud Khan or Rahul, is still missing. They popped a bunch of his crew, though, even some family, for helping him hide. This all started after...

What a total clown show over in Bangladesh. This supposed international soccer cup ended with Argentine and Brazilian players stuck in their Dhaka hotels because the organizers bounced without paying for their flights. Teams from Argentina, Atlético Charlone, and Brazil, São Bernardo, got...

The minister basically said Jamaica would be totally screwed without the global help after the hurricane. Kamina Johnson Smith gave a big thanks to a ton of countries and groups for sending aid. She named a whole list of places, pitching in, from Caribbean neighbors like The Bahamas and Trinidad...

Ghana just shipped a bunch of their people over to Jamaica to help clean up after that hurricane. We're talking 49 army engineers and five doctors landing at Norman Manley International Airport. Jamaica's Foreign Minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, was there to meet them, thanking Ghana for the...

The new government in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is making changes to its foreign service. Foreign Minister Fitz Bramble stated that diplomatic posts will now be filled by qualified people who reliably follow the administration's policies. He said the country will use its overseas missions...

The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States is backing its members after the U.S. visa restrictions. The OECS Commission issued a statement supporting Antigua and Barbuda, along with Dominica. They said they respect any country's right to set its own immigration rules, but stressed the...

The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda is hitting back hard against the recent criticism from Trinidad and Tobago's leader. Gaston Browne rejected the claim that CARICOM is an unreliable and dysfunctional partner. He argued with concrete trade data, noting Trinidad earned over a billion U.S...

Former Prime Minister Keith Rowley is tearing into the current leader over her foreign policy stance. He called Kamla Persad-Bissessar the most unpatriotic and incompetent leader he has seen since independence. His attack focused on her recent comments distancing Trinidad and Tobago from CARICOM...

The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago is warning people not to talk trash about the United States. Kamla Persad-Bissessar called it hypocritical to criticize a country that so many citizens rely on for visas and dual citizenship. She pointed to recent U.S. visa restrictions on other...

Prime Minister Mia Mottley is basically telling her party to get their campaign gear ready. Speaking at a party event, she strongly hinted at an early election next year, even though the official deadline is 2027. She told Barbados Labour Party supporters they need to be rested and prepared for...

The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, just threw some serious shade at CARICOM. She flat-out said the regional group will not decide her country's future and is not a reliable partner. Her big issue is the bloc criticizing the United States while backing Venezuela's...

Apostle Alistar Chibanda has publicly apologized after getting serious blowback for his online comments about a women's event. He insulted attendees of the Doek & Slay party in Harare, calling them immoral and claiming no wife material would go. After major backlash, he issued a statement...

A suspected drug dealer in Masvingo will stay in jail over the holidays. Bothwell Teveraishe, also known as Paco, was denied bail after getting caught with over two and a half kilograms of marijuana. He and another man, Panashe Barure, were arrested in Chivi. Detectives, following a tip, tracked...

Alec Baldwin talked about having serious suicidal thoughts following the fatal shooting on the Rust movie set. The incident happened back in October of 2021 when a prop gun he was handling went off, killing the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding the director Joel Souza. The legal case...

Lady Gaga is already working on more songs while out on her current concert tour. The singer told an interviewer that playing shows every night for her fans puts her in the perfect creative headspace to write new material. She released two albums recently, the Harlequin soundtrack and her pop...