Morning Brief

Russia targets critical infrastructure in drone attacks

Russia has been targeting Ukraine's critical infrastructure in a series of drone attacks early on Monday on Kyiv and the region surrounding it, officials said.

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Police experts work at a site of residential houses heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine December 31, 2022 Reuters

How Bangladesh did it but China couldn't

After three years of zero Covid policy, China is the last major economy in the world to accept "living with Covid" as a reality. 

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A resident gets tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) behind barriers of a sealed area REUTERS

S Korea, US discussing joint nuclear exercises

Seoul and Washington are discussing joint planning and exercises involving US nuclear assets to counter growing threats from the nuclear-armed North, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has said.

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FILE PHOTO: The Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) firing a missile from an undisclosed location on South Korea's east coast during a South Korea-US joint live-fire exercise aimed to counter North Korea's missile test on October 5, 2022 AFP

Arafat, Tarana new faces in Awami League central committee

Awami League on Sunday picked academician and media personality Mohammad A Arafat and former state minister Tarana Halim as the central working committee members of Awami League. 

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Tarana Halim,left and Mohammad A Arafat Collected

PSG suffer first loss of season at Lens

Paris Saint-Germain lost for the first time in any competition since March 20 last year when they were defeated 3-1 at Lens Sunday.

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Paris Saint-Germain's Kylian Mbappe in action during their Ligue 1 match away to Lens Sunday AFP

BNP: Implementing 10 points key challenge

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Sunday said the implementation of the 10 points to oust the Awami League government is the main challenge for their party in the New Year.

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File Photo: A BNP supporter carrying a memorabilia of sheaf of paddy, the party's electoral symbol, at a rally in Dhaka Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune