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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: Greece battled wildfires that have ravaged homes and sparked evacuations for a second day on Sunday, with the help of Czech firefighters and Italian aircraft expected to arrive later. Five fires were still raging S...
Minara Helen: President Trump on Saturday doubled down on his accusations that former Vice President Harris paid celebrities to endorse her during the 2024 presidential election. The president, echoing previous cl...
Staff Reporter: Tens of millions of Americans are under heat alerts as extreme heat hits several parts of the country this week, especially the northeast. Extreme heat warnings issued for Philadelphia, New York City and Boston go int...
Ema Alice: The Illinois landlord convicted of killing a 6-year-old Muslim boy and injuring his mother in a brutal hate crime attack in October 2023 has died in custody just months after he was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison....
Bangla Press Desk: Deaths from a devastating monsoon flood surged past 270 across Pakistan on Sunday, highlighting the alarmingly worsening impact of climate change in South Asia. The state-owned National Disaster Management Authorit...
Bangla Press Desk: The Pakistan space research agency is set to fire into space an advanced Earth observation satellite, potentially jointly developed with China, on 31 July from a Chinese launchpad, building on the launch of the countr...
Bangla Press Desk: Islamic State-backed rebels killed 38 people on Sunday in an attack on a church in eastern Congo, city officials said. The assault in Komanda, a city in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is believed to...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump said on Sunday Israel would have to make a decision on next steps in Gaza, adding that he did not know what would happen after moves by Israel to pull out of ceasefire and hostage-release neg...
Noman Sabit: Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" doesn't look so beautiful to American voters. According to a new Wall Street Journal poll, more than half of respondents oppose the president's landmark legislation. Considering th...
Bangla Press Desk: Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened on Sunday to renew attacks on Iran and assassinate Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “I want to send a clear message from here to dictator Khamenei: If you continu...
Bangla Press Desk: Ever since the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states in 1947, the United Nations has been inextricably linked to the fate of Palestinians, with the organization meeting this week hoping to revive the two-stat...
Bangla Press Desk: A landslide triggered by unusually heavy rain killed four people and left eight others missing in northern China's Hebei province, state media said on Monday, as downpours force thousands to evacuate. The landslide in...
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