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Bangla Press Desk: Unusually heavy snow in Japan has been blamed for 30 deaths in the past two weeks, officials said Tuesday, including a 91-year-old woman found under a three-metre pile outsid...
Staff Reporter: New York City in the United States is going back to normal. City Mayor Bill de Blasio has decided to open everything in New York from July 1. He said the decision has already been taken as almost 100 per cent of the city's residen...
Staff Reporter: TheThe 93rd annual Academy Awards ceremony began and ended on a couple of strange notes, for very different reasons. In the opening sequence, kickoff presenter and One Night In Miami director Regina King strode through Los Angeles...
Staff Reporter: A private school founded by an anti-vaccination activist in Florida has warned teachers and staff against taking the COVID-19 vaccine, saying it will not employ anyone who has received the shot. Teachers and staff at a school in...
Staff Reporter: Former US president Donald Trump has claimed that he is “the father of the vaccine” for coronavirus, attacking his successor Joe Biden for taking credit for the much-improved US response to the crisis. Mr Trump was speaking to Ma...
Staff Reporter: A gunman killed two people at a Wisconsin casino restaurant and seriously wounded a third before he was shot and killed by police in what authorities said appeared to be a targeted attack.The attack happened Saturday night at the...
Staff Reporter :Three innocent bystanders — including a 4-year-old girl who was toy shopping with her family — were shot Saturday in Times Square when a man arguing with three other people wildly fired into the evening crowd, according to police an...
Staff Reporter: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for youngsters ages 12 to 15 by next week, according to a federal official and a person familiar with the process, setting up shots for many...
Staff Reporter: The moon of the Arabic month of Shawwal was not seen anywhere in the United States on Tuesday (May 11) evening, so the holy Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated next Thursday (May 13). Wednesday will be the 30th day of the month of Rama...
Staff Reporter : Bill Gates maintained an unusual relationship with his ex-girlfriend for years after they split - and wife Melinda approved the arrangement. Gates remained close to ex Ann Winblad and would spend a long weekend with her every yea...
Staff Reporter: US President Joe Biden hosted an "Eid dinner" at the White House on Sunday night (May 16) to mark Eid al-Fitr. Various people including Muslim organizations have been invited there. But a US-based group of judges called American M...
Staff Reporter : In a significant move to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. government agreed to support a controversial proposal to temporarily waive intellectual property rights for vaccines in a bid to increase global supplies of desperat...
Staff Reporter: A man fatally shot six people including his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself early on Sunday at a birthday party in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but did not fire on traumatized children who were present inside a trailer...
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