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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: At least seven people, including two girls, were killed after a wall collapsed in Hari Nagar, Jaitpur, on Saturday morning, following heavy overnight rain that lashed the national capital. "Seven people h...
Bangla Press Desk: A 17-year-old boy opened fire and wounded three people in New York City's heavily touristed Times Square early Saturday, the New York Police Department said. The shooting occurred around 1:20am (0520 GMT) following...
Bangla Press Desk: Police in London arrested at least 200 people Saturday for supporting Palestine Action at the latest and largest protest backing the group since the government banned it last month under anti-terror laws. The UK ca...
Bangla Press Desk: Moscow will review the comments made by the US at the Armenia-Azerbaijan summit concerning the unblocking of regional transport routes, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. Any Armenia-Azerbaij...
Bangla Press Desk: Israel's far right pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go harder against Hamas, ahead of a UN Security Council meeting Sunday on the premier's bid to conquer Gaza City. Twenty-two months into the war in Gaza,...
Bangla Press Desk: Liverpool's Mohamed Salah has criticised Europe's football governing body UEFA for posting a tribute to "Palestinian Pele" Suleiman al-Obeid that did not mention the former international died after being hit by Israeli gunfire in...
Bangla Press Desk: Ali Akbar, believed to be the last newspaper hawker in France—and perhaps in all of Europe—has spent over half a century walking the streets of Paris’s Left Bank, distributing papers and announcing the day’s headlines al...
Bangla Press Desk: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out his vision for victory in Gaza during a press conference in Jerusalem, following a wave of criticism at home and abroad over his plans to expand the war. Netanyahu...
Bangla Press Desk: Malnutrition has killed 63 people, mostly women and children, in just one week in Sudan's besieged city of El-Fasher, a senior health official said Sunday, as fighting between the army and its rival paramilitaries int...
Bangla Press Desk: A 6.1-magnitude quake struck Sindirgi in western Turkey on Sunday, the Turkish disaster management agency (AFAD) reported. The quake was felt across several cities in the west of the country, including Istanbul and t...
Bangla Press Desk: A UN official on Sunday warned the Security Council that Israel's plans to control Gaza City risked "another calamity" with far-reaching consequences, as Benjamin Netanyahu insisted his goal was not to occupy the territor...
Bangla Press Desk: The head of Iran's top security body, Ali Larijani, will visit Iraq on Monday before heading to Lebanon, where the government has approved a plan to disarm Tehran's ally Hezbollah, state media said. "Ali Larijani depa...
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