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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: Ukraine launched a wave of drone strikes on Russia Sunday, triggering a fire at a nuclear power plant as it celebrated Ukrainian independence day against a backdrop of fading hopes for recent peace efforts. After a...
Bangla Press Desk: The Russian army Monday claimed to have captured another village in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, moving deeper into Ukrainian territory as peace efforts stall. Russian forces are slowly but steadily gaining groun...
Bangla Press Desk: The US ambassador to Paris has upped the pressure on President Emmanuel Macron over antisemitism in France with a letter calling the government's action on anti-Jewish hatred insufficient, days after similar criticism from Israel...
Bangla Press Desk: Al Jazeera on Monday said one of its journalists was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, two weeks after the broadcaster lost six staff and freelancers in an attack. Mohammad Salama, a photojournalist and camerama...
Bangla Press Desk: Gaza's civil defence agency said five journalists were among at least 20 people killed Monday when Israeli strikes hit a hospital in the south, with Reuters, the Associated Press and Al Jazeera mourning their slain co...
Bangla Press Desk: More than 22,000 people were arrested in Saudi Arabia last week in a sweeping nationwide campaign against residency and labour law violations, the Ministry of Interior said on Saturday. The joint inspections, carri...
Bangla Press Desk: The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwest China's Guizhou Province, set to become the world's tallest bridge, had completed a key load test as of Monday, ahead of its scheduled opening in late September. The fi...
Bangla Press Desk: China said Wednesday that it would not participate in denuclearisation talks with the United States and Russia, after President Donald Trump said he hoped to include Beijing in negotiations. Trump on Monday said the United Stat...
Bangla Press Desk: A Salvadoran man at the center of a row over President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown was rearrested on Monday and is set to be deported to Uganda, officials said. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deport...
Bangla Press Desk: SpaceX launched the latest test of its mega rocket Starship on Tuesday night and completed the first-ever deployment of a test payload — eight dummy satellites — into space. After just over an hour coasting through sp...
Bangla Press Desk: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces could start withdrawing from territory they hold in southern Lebanon after the Lebanese cabinet’s “momentous decision” earlier this month to work...
Bangla Press Desk: It's neither reasonable nor realistic to ask China to join the nuclear disarmament negotiations with the United States and Russia, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Wednesday. Guo m...
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