Bangladesh Election: Tarique Rahman's BNP Wins, India Ties in Focus

• Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) claimed a sweeping victory in the first election since Sheikh Hasina's ouster, with Tarique Rahman poised to become PM.
• The election outcome raises questions about future India-Bangladesh relations, strained since Hasina's exile.
• Japan's Sanae Takaichi won a landslide snap election, becoming the first triumphant woman PM, with a hawkish stance towards China.
• UK politics rocked by Epstein files; PM Keir Starmer faces scrutiny over Peter Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein.
• Canada experienced a mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, with six killed by an 18-year-old trans woman.