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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: The military might of the People's Republic of China was on full display in a parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two on Wednesday. Thousands of miles away, at the White House in Washington DC,...
Bangla Press Desk: The death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan at the weekend rose sharply to more than 2,200 on Thursday, according to a new toll, making it the deadliest in decades to hit the country. T...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump on Friday claimed it appears that he has lost his allies India and Russia to the “deepest and darkest China.” “May they have a long and prosperous future together!,” he wrote in a post on...
Bangla Press Desk: The Israeli military on Thursday said it controls 40% of Gaza City, the largest urban centre in the Palestinian territory which it is preparing to conquer after nearly two years of devastating war. Israel has inten...
Bangla Press Desk: "RESET SYSTEM" reads graffiti above an intersection in the Javanese city of Yogyakarta, painted hastily in vibrant green and pink after deadly protests swept Indonesia last week. Pink and green have quickly come to...
Bangla Press Desk: Nepal said on Thursday it would block access to more than two dozen social media platforms, including Facebook and X, for failing to meet a deadline to register in the country. The Ministry of Communication and Inf...
Bangla Press Desk: Elite US Navy SEALs launched an audacious operation in 2019 to plant a listening device in North Korea to spy on the country's reclusive leader Kim Jong Un, the New York Times reported Friday, but the mission quickly...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump has issued a directive to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War. He will sign an executive order on Friday for the defence department to use the new name as a secondary tit...
Bangla Press Desk: Arab League has said that peaceful coexistence in the Middle East cannot be achieved without a Palestinian state and an end to what it described as Israel's "hostile practices". In a resolution submitted by Egypt...
Bangla Press Desk: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders met in Paris on Thursday with the US envoy appointed by President Donald Trump to mediate peace talks, discussing security guarantees for the war-torn nation as...
Ema Alice: Hurricane Kiko’s center is headed toward the Hawaiian Islands as a Category 4, and officials have declared an emergency, though the storm is expected to weaken. Kiko was about 1,205 miles east-southeast of Honolulu with 13...
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