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Bangla Press Desk: Arab citizens of Israel participated enthusiastically in the country’s elections. Exit polls suggest that Arab parties are on track to secure a record 19 seats, reports Al Jazeera.E...
Bangla Press Desk: The death toll from a Myanmar military airstrike in Rakhine state, which lies on the border with Bangladesh, rose to 50 after rescuers found more bodies on Tuesday, according to a rebel group that controls the area and...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 34 civilians were killed in seven incidents during military joint operations in Mali by the army and Russia’s Wagner mercenary group between June 2023 and December 2025, Amnesty International said in a report o...
Bangla Press Desk: Taiwan is in continuous talks with the United States about arms sales and has received reassurances since the Washington summit between the US and Chinese leaders that US policy on Taiwan has not changed, the defence minister...
Bangla Press Desk: A deepening funding crisis could leave nearly 8.3 million refugees and forcibly displaced people without access to assistance this year, and push protection systems in some countries towards collapse, the United Nations refug...
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Bangla Press Desk: Russian Ambassador Denis Alipov has claimed that a senior US official publicly acknowledged that Washington would not allow India to develop into another China -- a competitor -- describing the remark as a "Freudian slip".&nb...
Bangla Press Desk: Heavy rain triggered floods and landslides across northern India and Nepal, killing at least 68 people over the past three days, disaster authorities said on Sunday.In India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, 56 people h...
Bangla Press Desk: A Saudi airstrike on Taiz in southwest Yemen killed seven people and wounded dozens more, Houthi media reported on Sunday.The Iran-backed Houthis' Al-Masirah TV channel said the strike killed seven and wounded 40 in a central...
Bangla Press Desk: Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was pulled from the rubble of a Tehran hospital after joint US and Israeli strikes targeted the facility where he was receiving treatment, an Iranian cleric has said.Mohsen Heydari, a member o...
Bangla Press Desk: Afghanistan’s defence ministry said on Sunday its forces had killed 28 fighters and wounded 32 in the eastern province of Nuristan after a group it said included Islamic State militants crossed from Pakistan.The ministry alle...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has sought international partners' support with adequate financing, greater market access, technology transfer and capacity-building assistance to transform Bangladesh into a global manufacturing...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan has tightened security in Islamabad ahead of a planned Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) march on Parliament on Sunday, deploying thousands of security personnel, blocking roads with shipping containers and banning public gat...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump treated Chinese leader Xi Jinping to pomp and pageantry on Thursday, as the leaders of the world's two superpowers met in Washington DC for talks.Here are the key takeaways from the keenly-watched meetings...
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