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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: President Donald Trump's administration moved Thursday to impose stricter limits on how long foreign students and journalists can stay in the United States, the latest bid to tighten legal immigration in the country. U...
Bangla Press Desk: The White House has named a replacement for the director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a day after its previous leader was forced out of the job. Jim O'Neill currently serves as the deputy to Healt...
Bangla Press Desk: Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Saturday he has begun a tour of Asia that will take him to China, Laos and Vietnam, his main commercial ally on the continent. Diaz-Canel's trip comes as Cuba, which counts 10.9...
Bangla Press Desk: A Holocaust memorial in Lyon was defaced with a "Free Gaza" inscription, city officials told AFP on Saturday, fueling concerns over an increase in antisemitic acts and hate crimes in France. In a photo city officials s...
Bangla Press Desk: A flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, is due to leave from Barcelona on Sunday to try to "break the illegal siege of Gaza", organisers said. The vess...
Bangla Press Desk: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left Pyongyang Monday by train for Beijing to attend a military parade marking Japan's surrender in World War II, Yonhap news agency reported. "N. Korean leader departed Pyongyang in af...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump “no longer has plans” to visit India later this year for the Quad Summit, according to The New York Times, which outlined how relations between him and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have “...
Bangla Press Desk: Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Turkey's mediation attempts around the Ukraine war at a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in China on Monday. "I'm confident that Turkey's special role i...
Bangla Press Desk: The leaders of China and India on Sunday said there is now deepening trust between them after years of tension that includes a long-running border dispute. China's President Xi Jinping and Indian PM Narendra Modi m...
Bangla Press Desk: India and China will resume direct flights after more than five years as two of the world's biggest economies seek to rebuild political ties amid rising trade uncertainties. The plan was announced by Indian Prime M...
Bangla Press Desk: The Trump administration has moved to terminate almost 500 employees of the federally funded news organisation Voice of America (VOA). The step is the latest in President Donald Trump's drive to strip back the outl...
Bangla Press Desk: The president of Ghana on Monday said he was firing the west African country's chief justice after an investigation found her guilty of alleged abuse of office. Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkonoo, 61, the third wom...
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