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Romania, Poland, scramble aircraft as drones strike Ukraine

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Bangla Press Desk:  Romania became the latest NATO member state to report a drone incursion into its airspace Saturday, as Poland scrambled aircraft in response to fresh Russian drone strikes just over the border in Ukraine. Ukrainian Pr...

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Gulf states unite to respond to Israeli attack on Qatar

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Bangla Press Desk: For decades, wealthy Gulf Arab states cast themselves as oases of stability in a region mired in conflict, building gleaming capitals with fast-growing economies powered by by millions of foreign workers drawn to econ...

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Pakistani army says clashes near the Afghan border killed 12 soldiers and 35 militants AP/UNB

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Bangla Press Desk: Pakistani security forces raided two hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border in the past two days, triggering fierce clashes that killed 12 soldiers and 35 militants, the military said Saturday. Th...

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Trump calls on NATO countries to stop buying Russian oil

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump said Saturday he believes the Russia-Ukraine war would end if all NATO countries stopped buying oil from Russia and placed tariffs on China of 50% to 100% for its purchases of Russian petrole...

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Russia claims another village in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Bangla Press Desk:  Russia on Saturday said it had captured a new village in Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region, which Moscow's forces say they reached at the beginning of July. The defence ministry said its troops had seized the vi...

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Nepal returns to calm as first woman PM takes charge

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Bangla Press Desk:  Nepal's newly appointed interim prime minister began work on Saturday by visiting young protesters wounded in the deadly anti-corruption rallies that ousted her predecessor. Sushila Karki, the 73-year-old former chief...

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Mamdani vows to arrest Netanyahu if elected

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Bangla Press Desk:  Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani has said if elected, he would direct the New York Police Department to arrest Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he sets foot in the city. In an...

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Death toll from Pak Punjab floods rises to 101

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Bangla Press Desk:  At least 101 people have died in the worst floods to hit Punjab in decades, Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Director General Irfan Ali Kathia said on Saturday. Speaking to the media at the Commissioner...

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Arab, Muslim leaders to meet in Qatar to denounce Israeli attack

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Bangla Press Desk:  Qatar said Saturday it will host a summit of Arab and Muslim leaders to denounce Israel's attack on Hamas officials in Doha and to show solidarity with the Gulf state. Monday's meeting would consider "a draft resoluti...

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Man who beheaded Indian national at US motel faces deportation

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Bangla Press Desk: Two days after an Indian national, Chandra Nagamallaiah was brutally murdered and decapitated by an undocumented immigrant from Cuba, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Immigration and Customs Enf...

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Pentagon ‘tracking’ employees who celebrate Charlie Kirk’s assassination

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Minara Helen: "We are tracking all these very closely — and will address, immediately. Completely unacceptable,” Hegseth wrote Thursday on social media. Hegseth was responding to a statement from chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parn...

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Poland tells Trump Russian drone raid not a 'mistake

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Bangla Press Desk: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday dismissed US President Donald Trump's suggestion that a Russian drone raid into Polish airspace could have been a mistake. "We would also wish that the drone attack on Poland...

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