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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)...
Noman Sabit: Republican senators came out firing during Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s hearing on Wednesday before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on armed forces. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) imm...
Abu Sabet: Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) on Monday released the Senate’s long-awaited version of President Trump’s tax agenda, which would make the 2017 corporate tax cuts permanent, cut hundreds of billions of dol...
Bangla Press Desk: The ongoing crises in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Sudan are in the spotlight this week at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva. “The goal of the Israeli government is abundantly clear: the destruc...
Noman Sabit: New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani stunned the country on Tuesday with his victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded overnight in the race to win the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City. M...
Bangla Press Desk: Mourners dressed in black lined streets in Iran's capital Tehran at a funeral on Saturday for top military commanders, nuclear scientists and some of the civilians killed during this month's war with Israel. At least 16...
Noman Sabit: Billionaire Elon Musk ramped up his criticism of the megabill of President Trump’s tax cut and spending priorities, calling the legislation a “disgusting abomination.” “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This...
Ema Alice: President Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation banning travel into the United States for individuals from a dozen countries, citing national security concerns. The proclamation, which echoes a travel ban Trump institut...
Bangla Press Desk: Authorities in Indian state Assam have illegally pushed at least 145 citizens, mostly Muslims, across the border into Bangladesh since the last week of May, according to an investigative report published by a Mumbai-b...
Ema Alice: Musk backs call to impeach Trump, replace him with Vance Tech billionaire Elon Musk backed a call to impeach President Trump on Thursday, one of the latest swipes at the president by the billionaire in an ongoing war of words...
Abu Sabet: Immigration and Customs Enforcement made the highest number of immigrant arrests in a single day in its history on Tuesday, detaining more than 2,200 people, according to one source familiar with the arrests and an ICE spokes...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump held a long-awaited phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday as the leaders of the world's two biggest economies tried to avoid an all-out trade war. Trump said that the call...
Bangla Press Desk: A court on Thursday put a temporary stay on Donald Trump's latest effort to stop foreign students from enrolling at Harvard, as the US president's battle with one of the world's most prestigious universities intensifi...
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