International news and global updates
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 United Nations officially declared a famine in Gaza on Friday, blaming "systematic obstruction of aid" by Israel, hours after Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened to destroy the territory's largest city. Isr...
Bangla Press Desk: An appeals court has thrown out a $500m (£372m) penalty that President Donald Trump was ordered to pay in a New York civil fraud trial last year. Judge Arthur Engoron had ordered Trump to pay the fee for...
Ema Alice: Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation in March to his native El Salvador made him a symbol of President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies, was released from criminal custody in Tennessee on Frid...
Minara Ema: New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) raked in over $1 million in campaign funding in recent weeks, out-earning both former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams. Mamdani raised just over $1 million through...
Bangla Press Desk: The District Magistrate in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri sealed a hospital after a man reached the DM office with the body of his newborn child, who died during delivery. The newborn child's father, Vipin Gupta, had...
Bangla Press Desk: Turkey's First Lady wrote to her US counterpart Melania Trump on Saturday, asking her to show the same concern for Gaza's children as she has shown for those of Ukraine. Emine Erdogan asked Donald Trump's spouse to...
Bangla Press Desk: The US federal government on Friday ordered all construction be halted on a massive wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is 80 percent complete. It was the latest in a series of orders blocking climate-friendl...
Bangla Press Desk: Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has expressed grave concern over rising linguistic intolerance in parts of India, particularly targeting Bangla-speaking individuals who are often suspected of being undocumented B...
Noman Sabit: 55 million people with valid U.S. visas, including tourists from many countries, are set to come under the U.S. government's scrutiny. President Trump's administration said on Thursday it is reviewing each visa for violations...
Bangla Press Desk: Famine has been confirmed in Gaza City and the surrounding area for the first time, according to a report by the UN-backed food security body Integrated Food Security Phase Classifications (IPC). Half a m...
Bangla Press Desk: Israeli former defence minister Benny Gantz on Saturday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to forge a unity government along with members of the opposition in a bid to help release the hostages held in Gaza....
Bangla Press Desk: A passenger on board an Air India flight from New Delhi to Bengaluru revealed what happened after a woman began "bleeding profusely" through her nose, prompting a medical emergency mid-air. In a post on X, the passenger...
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