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 National Citizen Party (NCP) is organising a press conference to share its reaction regarding the July Declaration and the speech of the Chief Adviser. The press conference will be held today (Wednesday) at 12:00...
Bangla Press Desk: More than 7,000 cases of a mosquito-borne virus have been reported across China's Guangdong province since July, prompting measures similar to those taken during the Covid-19 pandemic. In Foshan city, which has been h...
Bangla Press Desk: The US State Department said Monday some visa applicants will soon be required to pay bonds of up to $15,000 to discourage visa overstays as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on migration. Starting later this...
Bangla Press Desk: The Chinese government provided $3.3 million in cash to Myanmar’s new regime on Tuesday (5 August) for small and midsize projects. China made the money available from the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Special Fund, a po...
Bangla Press Desk: A Brazilian judge on Monday placed former president Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest for breaking a social media ban, escalating a dramatic standoff between the court and the politician, who is accused of plotting a cou...
Bangla Press Desk: Nations must resolve the global plastics crisis, the head of UN talks told negotiators from 180 countries gathered in Geneva on Tuesday to forge a landmark treaty on eliminating the life-threatening waste. "We are fa...
Bangla Press Desk: Russia has declared that it no longer considers itself bound by a self-imposed moratorium on the deployment of nuclear-capable intermediate range missiles, a warning that potentially sets the stage for a new arms race a...
Bangla Press Desk: The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Denmark will buy $1 billion of US weapons under a new NATO scheme to support Ukraine in its war against Russia, the countries announced Tuesday. The purchases from US stockpiles...
Bangla Press Desk: Monsoon floods in a rebel-held Myanmar town on the country's mountainous border with China have killed six people, a spokesman for the armed group controlling the area said Wednesday. The northern town of Laiza bord...
Bangla Press Desk: Hungry children in war-torn Sudan's capital have been reduced to "skin and bones", and thousands of families are at risk of starvation in a western city under a months-long siege, the UN said Tuesday. The Sudanese...
Bangla Press Desk: Police in Pakistan arrested more than 150 activists of the main opposition party holding protests across the country on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the jailing of their leader Imran Khan, security officials and...
Bangla Press Desk: Blood donations are needed now, right now, across the remaining operational medical facilities in Gaza – Al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Aqsa Hospital, Nasser Hospital. Hani Mahmoud said, "We read and hear doctors’ appeal fo...
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