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Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump on Monday announced a trade deal with India that slashes US tariffs on Indian goods to 18% from 50% in exchange for India halting Russian oil purchases and...
The Philippines' top court voted on Friday to remove its chief justice, who faced ouster efforts after battling with President Rodrigo Duterte over human rights and his deadly war on drugs. The decision against Maria Lourdes Sereno drew some 2,000...
Seven people have been found dead at a rural property in Western Australia (WA), police have confirmed. The bodies of four children and three adults were discovered in the town of Osmington, 280km (170 miles) south of Perth, on Friday. Two firear...
Banglapress Online: US President Donald Trump made a stunning concession to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday about halting military exercises, pulling a surprise at a summit that baffled allies, military officials and lawmakers from his o...
Banglapress Online: The US and North Korea sharply diverged after two days of talks, with Pyongyang terming the US position on denuclearisation during meetings with Mike Pompeo “extremely regrettable,” hours after the secretary of state cited progr...
An independent legal campaign has been launched in the UK with the aim of initiating the prosecution of those responsible for crimes against humanity in Myanmar's Rakhine State. The Justice for Rohingya Minority (JFRM) was launched at the Amnesty...
The US has imposed sanctions on six people and three companies it says have ties to Iran's elite military force, the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the penalties targeted those who had funnelled millions o...
Banglapress Online: Arkady Babchenko, the Russian journalist who was reported to have been shot dead in Kiev, has turned up alive at a news conference in Ukraine. Babchenko emerged at a police press conference on Wednesday afternoon in front of jou...
The White House wants intrusive inspections of Iran's nuclear sites to continue despite President Donald Trump's withdrawal from a landmark accord on Tehran's atomic programme, US officials said. Days after the US president walked away from a thre...
Banglapress Online: The right-hand man to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York to discuss a historic summit. Gen Kim Yong-chol flew in from the Chinese capital Beijing on an Air China flight. He is t...
Banglapress Online: The United States has indicated more action from the international community over Rohingya issue and other areas of concerns in Myanmar in the coming days terming the situation 'dire'. "Secretary (former) Tillerson had announced...
Banglapress Online:Today, in the Turkish city of Gebze, the inauguration ceremony of the United Nations Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was held. Dr. Faruk Ozlu, Minister of Science, Industry and Technology of Turkey, Dr. M...
New York Correspondent: U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officers instructed Reuters on Thursday, within the first large-scale use of federal prisons to carry de...
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