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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: United Nations investigators say they have gathered evidence of systematic torture in Myanmar’s detention facilities, identifying senior figures among those responsible. The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myan...
Bangla Press Desk: Powerful torrents driven by intense rain smashed into a Himalayan mountain village in Indian-administered Kashmir and killed at least 34 people on Thursday, a top local government official told AFP. It is the second ma...
Bangla Press Desk: Palestinians describe horrific scenes in Northern Gaza in the daily desperation to access food under Israeli fire. Israeli forces have killed at least 73 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to medics,...
Bangla Press Desk: The United Nations urged countries Thursday to maintain diplomatic pressure on the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan, saying their ban on girls' education has left millions shut out of classrooms since the group reto...
Bangla Press Desk: Russia's offensive in eastern Ukraine was gaining speed and seizing more ground Wednesday ahead of a summit in Alaska between US President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin. According to an AFP analysis of b...
Bangla Press Desk: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told Iran's visiting security chief on Wednesday that he rejected any interference in the country's internal affairs, branding as "unconstructive" Iran's statements on plans to disarm He...
Bangla Press Desk: The Toronto International Film Festival will screen a documentary on the 2023 Hamas attack, after all, following an uproar over the film's disinvitation from the upcoming festival. Earlier this week, TIFF withdrew...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 40 people have died in Sudan's Darfur region in the country's worst cholera outbreak in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday.The medical charity said the vast western region, which has been a major battleg...
Bangla Press Desk: The governments of Israel and South Sudan are holding talks to resettle displaced Gaza people to the African nation, according to a Reuters report. The plan, which was confirmed to Reuters by three officials, was i...
Bangla Press Desk: Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump will hold "one-on-one" talks aimed at settling the Ukraine conflict when they meet for their landmark summit in Alaska on Friday, the Kremlin said. The m...
Ema Alice: After a three-day trial, a jury on Wednesday convicted South Texas bakery co-owners Leonardo Baez-Lara and Alicia Avila-Guel on two counts of harboring aliens and conspiracy to commit the crime. "We are disappointed and he...
Bangla Press Desk: With the Hyderabad police rescuing a teenage girl trafficked from Bangladesh and forced into prostitution, the focus once again turns on the transnational human trafficking syndicates operating between Bangladesh and...
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