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Bangla Press Desk: Two Jewish men were seriously injured in a stabbing attack in Golders Green, north London, UK. A man ran down a busy street with a knife and attempted to attack Jewish worship...
Bangla Press Desk: China's President Xi Jinping told his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that the two countries could set an example of "self-reliance" in a phone call on Tuesday, state media reported. The two leaders ha...
Bangla Press Desk: Palestinians have held funerals for the five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza, as protesters rallied around the world, including London, Berlin, Tunis and Ramallah, to denounce the targeted attack. The...
Bangla Press Desk: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about the latest developments and ongoing challenges facing Palestinians and their cause during a phone call on Monday. They discus...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Israel would let Palestinians leave the Gaza Strip, as the military prepares a broader offensive in the territory. Past calls to resettle Gazans outside of the war-...
Bangla Press Desk: Family members of victims in the world's deadliest single-aircraft accident hiked Tuesday to the mountainous site in Japan where the plane went down, as the country marked 40 years since the tragedy that killed 520 people...
Bangla Press Desk: Russia said on Thursday its troops had captured two new settlements in eastern Ukraine on the eve of a summit between President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump. The defence ministry said Russian forces c...
Noman Sabit: In another case of detentions that’s happening across America, a Filipino immigrant and a green card holder was detained at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina after they returned from a vacation i...
Bangla Press Desk: United Nations investigators say they have gathered evidence of systematic torture in Myanmar’s detention facilities, identifying senior figures among those responsible. The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myan...
Bangla Press Desk: Powerful torrents driven by intense rain smashed into a Himalayan mountain village in Indian-administered Kashmir and killed at least 34 people on Thursday, a top local government official told AFP. It is the second ma...
Bangla Press Desk: Palestinians describe horrific scenes in Northern Gaza in the daily desperation to access food under Israeli fire. Israeli forces have killed at least 73 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to medics,...
Bangla Press Desk: The United Nations urged countries Thursday to maintain diplomatic pressure on the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan, saying their ban on girls' education has left millions shut out of classrooms since the group reto...
Bangla Press Desk: Russia's offensive in eastern Ukraine was gaining speed and seizing more ground Wednesday ahead of a summit in Alaska between US President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin. According to an AFP analysis of b...
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