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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: Beijing city officials admitted on Thursday they had not been prepared for heavy rains that soaked swathes of the capital, killing 44 people and leaving nine still missing. Swathes of northern China endured deadly...
Bangla Press Desk: President Donald Trump plans to build a ballroom at the White House as he pushes forward with remodeling the US executive mansion, his spokeswoman said Thursday. Trump himself and unspecified donors will foot the b...
Bangla Press Desk: President Donald Trump's envoy met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday ahead of a visit to inspect aid distribution in Gaza, as a deadly food crisis drove mounting international pressure for a ceasefire...
Bangla Press Desk: Slovenia said Thursday that it will ban all weapons trade with Israel over the war in Gaza, in what it said is a first by an EU nation. Slovenia's government has frequently criticised Israel over the conflict, and las...
Abu Sabet: New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani reacted to Monday's mass shooting in midtown Manhattan with a predictable, left-wing demand for more "gun control." The democratic socialist parroted the anti-Sec...
Bangla Press Desk: Brazil vowed Thursday to combat US President Donald Trump's tariffs on its exports, saying it intends to lodge appeals if last-ditch negotiations fail. Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said the tariffs announced Wedne...
Bangla Press Desk: The death toll from Thursday's Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv has risen to 26, including three children, Ukraine's interior ministry said. The toll previously stood at 16, including two children, but was rev...
Bangla Press Desk: Tata Steel has been fined £1.5m after a contractor was killed at work in its Port Talbot plant. Justin Day was found slumped in a "hot rolling channel" on 25 September 2019 after being crushed by a large steel beam. The 4...
Bangla Press Desk: Barefoot and dressed in tattered clothes, Amir approached a GHF aid distribution point in Gaza desperate for help. He had walked 12km (7.5 miles) to collect food. And moments after the frail boy received his small packets...
Bangla Press Desk: US hiring is slowing sharply as President Donald Trump’s erratic and radical trade policies paralyze businesses and raise doubts about the outlook for the world’s largest economy. The Labor Department reported Frid...
Bangla Press Desk: Slovenia said Thursday that it will ban all weapons trade with Israel over the war in Gaza, in what it said is a first arms embargo on Israel by a European nation. Tiny Slovenia has almost no arms trade w...
Bangla Press Desk: South African police said Friday they have arrested some 1,000 undocumented migrants working in illegal gold mines in the northeast of the country. A police spokesman for the Mpumalanga province, where the week-long sw...
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