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(CNN)Japan's Defense Minister has resigned following allegations she helped to suppress the release of sensitive defense documents, in the latest blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet as his popularity continues to dive.

The High Court on Wednesday set August 13 for delivering its verdict on the death reference of 26 convicts and their appeals against the convictions in the sensational seven murders that took place in Narayanganj in 2014.

The government on Wednesday asked the deputy commissioners and others to prepare for ‘massive flood’ in the third week of August.Emerging from a business session on the second day of the deputy commissioners’ conference at the secretariat, water resources minister Anisul Islam Mahmud said that there was a possibility of massive flood in late August and necessary steps would be taken to tackle the situation.

Severe traffic congestion, made even worse by stagnant water on potholed roads from days of rainfall, and wretched condition of the footpaths turned out to be a horrible experience for the Dhaka residents on Wednesday.

Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday underscored the need for building a social movement against bad impact of drug abuse to protect all including youths of the society.

Titumir College student Siddiqur Rahman, injured in the eyes in police action on student protests at Sahbagh in Dhaka on July 20, is scheduled for today to fly to Chennai in India for medical treatment.

Washington (CNN)The Senate rejected a proposal from Republican lawmakers to repeal Obamacare on Wednesday, marking a significant milestone in the Republican Party's years-long political crusade to gut former President Barack Obama's legacy health care law.

(CNN)House and Senate Republicans have reached a deal that is paving the way to send a bill to President Donald Trump's desk that slaps Russia with new sanctions and limits Trump's ability to remove them.

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he plans to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals from serving "in any capacity" in the US armed forces.

(CNN)The pause button was hit on the Korean War 64 years ago Thursday. Its legacy of destruction lives on. In just three years, the war claimed the lives of millions of people and forever changed the Korean Peninsula.