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Bangla Press Desk: Russia launched waves of drones at Ukraine's capital Kyiv and surrounding region on Friday, damaging warehouses and homes in a second consecutive day of strikes Ukrainian offi...
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Bangla Press Desk: Sri Lanka deployed hundreds of troops and elite commandos on Sunday to contain riots at an overcrowded prison in which an inmate was killed and six others wounded, police said.Deputy police inspector-general Sanjeewa Medawatt...
Bangla Press Desk: A fast-moving wildfire neared the US city of Spokane on Saturday, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate as Washington state declared an emergency over one of its worst fire seasons on record.More than 200,000 acres (80,9...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan rescue teams resumed a high-altitude search on Saturday for seven climbers missing after a powerful avalanche on one of the world's highest peaks, with the remains of three mountaineers recovered.The avalanche...
Bangla Press Desk: The US State Department will make permanent a visa bond programme that could require applicants from Bangladesh and 49 other countries, most of them in Africa, to post bonds of up to US$20,000 when applying for US visas...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan on Friday indicated that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be invited to Islamabad for the 2027 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, saying all member states, including India, will receive inv...
Bangla Press Desk: The US war in Iran is in desperate need of new thinking.Despite new US strikes Wednesday following President Donald Trump’s f-bomb warning that Iran is due another “beating,” he has yet to show he can blast Tehran back to tal...
Bangla Press Desk: A powerful earthquake that struck southern Japan this week has exposed the vulnerability of the country's manufacturing supply chains, a decade after a devastating quake in the same region triggered widespread industry disrup...
Bangla Press Desk: A drone strike that sparked fires on two gas vessels in Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta has raised a new threat to shipping through the Suez Canal, one of the last major export routes available to Saudi oil amid the ex...
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Bangla Press Desk: Japanese emergency workers searched tirelessly for survivors at a wrecked shopping mall on Thursday, as the death toll from a major earthquake hit 34 and tens of thousands were left without power in punishing heat.The Kumamot...
Bangla Press Desk: The father of a Georgia teenager who carried out a deadly mass shooting at his high school was sentenced to 15 years in prison for second-degree murder and other charges after a jury found him criminally culpable for the atta...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an agreement for the "complete disarmament" of Hamas, calling it a critical step toward a new Palestinian government in Gaza.Senior Hamas officials told AFP that the agreement r...
Bangla Press Desk: A blast at a coal mine killed at least 34 workers in southern Pakistan, the provincial disaster agency said on Friday, adding rescuers were searching for more missing miners.The explosion, caused by methane gas, tore through...
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