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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: A US nurse has tested positive for COVID-19 eight days after having received a Pfizer vaccine shot. Matthew W, who works as an ER nurse at two hospitals in San Diego, received the jab on December 18. Speaking to ABC News, he said th...
Staff Reporter: A Wisconsin pharmacist has been arrested after it emerged that a hospital worker deliberately spoiled hundreds of doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a report. While authorities haven’t named the suspect, records show that a l...
Staff Reporter: After months of failed negotiations, lawmakers have finally agreed to a new $900 billion coronavirus relief package. Congressional leaders have not yet released text of the more than $2 trillion legislation — which will include broa...
Staff Reporter: US police have shot dead an unarmed black man in Columbus, Ohio. A few months ago, a young man named George Floyd was brutally murdered. Protests erupted across the United States over the deaths. A large part of the people of the co...
Staff Reporter: The Senate on Friday overrode President Trump's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act, the $740 billion defense policy bill. This veto, in the waning days of Mr. Trump's presidency, marked the first time Congress has voted...
Staff Reporter: Homes of Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the lower house of the US Congress, and Mitch McConnell, leader of the upper house of the Senate, have been vandalized. The attack took place on Saturday morning local time. The bomber struck shortl...
Satff Reporter: The federal government is in talks with Moderna about giving half the recommended dose of the company's Covid-19 shot to speed up immunization efforts, the head of the Trump administration's vaccine rollout said on Sunday. Operation...
Staff Reporter: USA state of Georgia is counting votes after the runoff election for two Senate seats on Tuesday (January 5th). Democrats and Republicans are fighting hard in both seats. Republican nominees Senator David Perdue and Senator Kelly Lo...
Staff Reporter :The state of Georgia in the United States is holding runoff elections for two Senate seats on Tuesday (January 5). Biden-Trump's final fate test depends on the Senate's majority in this election. And that's why the eyes of all Ameri...
Staff Reporter: Four people died as supporters of President Donald Trump violently occupied the U.S. Capitol. Washington, D.C., Police Chief Robert Contee said the dead on Wednesday included a woman who was shot by the U.S. Capitol Police, as well...
Staff Reporter: Demands have been made to oust US President Donald Trump before his term expires. Demands for his ouster have risen sharply since Trump's attack on the Capitol on Wednesday. His presidency will end on the 20th of this month. Someone...
Staff Reporter: Lehigh University, a private college in Pennsylvania, has revoked the honorary degree it awarded President Donald Trump more than 30 years ago. The decision was affirmed by the school’s Board of Trustees on Friday, the school said i...
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