International news and global updates
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: The commander-in-chief of Iran's military, Amir Hatami, said on Sunday that threats from Israel persist, according to state media. In June, Israel and the US launched strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities during th...
Bangla Press Desk: Thousands of demonstrators braved pouring rain to march across Sydney's iconic Harbour Bridge on Sunday calling for peace and aid deliveries in the war-torn Gaza Strip, where a humanitarian crisis has been worsening....
Bangla Press Desk: A New Zealand woman was arrested on Sunday after travelling on a bus with a two-year-old girl trapped in her luggage. Detective Inspector Simon Harrison said the woman had been charged with ill-treatment and neglec...
Bangla Press Desk: A shipwreck off Yemen killed at least 27 migrants, with more than 100 still missing, two security sources in the southern province of Abyan told AFP on Sunday. "At this stage, the deaths of 27 people are confirmed,...
Bangla Press Desk: Spanish emergency services on Sunday found the bodies of a father and son who were in a plane that crashed off the coast of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands, the civil guard said. Press reports said it was a stunt pla...
Bangla Press Desk: Donald Trump has ordered the repositioning of two United States nuclear submarines to “appropriate regions” relative to Russia, as the US president grows frustrated over stalling peace talks aimed at bringing an end to...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 21 Palestinians, including nine people seeking aid, were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since Monday morning, according to local officials. Aid agencies told Al Jazeera that without an immediate cease...
Bangla Press Desk: Sudanese paramilitary fighters have killed at least 14 civilians trying to flee a besieged city in Darfur, a rights group said Monday, more than 27 months into their war against the army. The Emergency Lawyers, which...
Bangla Press Desk: A cold air front dropped as much as 40 cm (16 inches) of snow on parts of northern New South Wales on Saturday, the most since the mid-1980s, said Miriam Bradbury, a meteorologist at Australia's weather bure...
Bangla Press Desk: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has tightened scrutiny of family-based visa petitions, particularly marriage-based applications, to curb fraud and ensure only genuine relationships are approved, repo...
Bangla Press Desk: Authorities in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato said 32 bodies were found on a property in the municipality of Irapuato and nearly half of them have been identified. The Guanajuato state prosecutor’s office sa...
Bangla Press Desk: A Bangladeshi tailor based in Dubai won the Dh20-million (approximately Tk 656,937,275) jackpot in Big Ticket’s latest draw — and remarkably, it was his very first time buying a ticket, reports Khaleej Times. Sabuj M...
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