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Bangla Press Desk: A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).The earthquake occurred at 10.27pm local time (1757 GMT)...
Bangla Press Desk: Assistant US Trade Representative (South and Central Asia) Brendan Lynch and Director for South Asia Emily Ashby called on Labour and Employment Adviser Brig Gen (retd) Dr M Sakhawat Hossain at his Secretariat office on...
Bangla Press Desk: Luxembourg has said it will join a raft of countries recognising the State of Palestine at a United Nations summit in New York next week. French President Emmanuel Macron is spearheading the drive on recognising a Pal...
Bangla Press Desk: Arab and Muslim leaders called for a review of ties with Israel after emergency talks in Doha on Monday following last week's deadly strike on Hamas members in the Qatari capital. The Arab League and Organisation of I...
Bangla Press Desk: Israel heavily bombarded Gaza City on Tuesday, witnesses told AFP, after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio backed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new offensive there and its stated goal of eradicating Hamas....
Bangla Press Desk: Umer Shah, the younger brother of social media child star Ahmad Shah, passed away, the family confirmed in a heart-wrenching social media post on Monday. Umer, like Ahmad, was also popular on social media for his appe...
Abu Sabet: FBI director Kash Patel has come under fire for donning a Liverpool FC tie worth $15 during his Senate hearing. Patel appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. He kicked off his testimony by defending his...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump insisted Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not strike Qatar again amid a shakeup in Arab approach to Israel in response to an attack on Washington’s ally last week targ...
Bangla Press Desk: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed gratitude to US President Donald Trump for his phone call and warm wishes on his 75th birthday. “Thank you, my friend, President Trump, for your phone call and warm gr...
Bangla Press Desk: The fields are full but the paddy brown and wilted, and the air thick with the stench of rotting crops and livestock -- the aftermath of record monsoon rains that have devastated India's breadbasket. In Punjab, often...
Bangla Press Desk: Britain will roll out a supersized royal welcome for Donald Trump's unprecedented second state visit on Wednesday, with the king to greet the US president who has compared himself to a monarch. From a carriage ride wi...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 50 people have died after a vessel carrying 75 Sudanese refugees caught fire near the Libyan coast on Sunday, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The United Nations migration age...
Bangla Press Desk: An international forum on security will be held in Russia on May 26-29, 2006, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu said during a meeting with Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid. "The president of the Russi...
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