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Bangla Press Desk: Arab citizens of Israel participated enthusiastically in the country’s elections. Exit polls suggest that Arab parties are on track to secure a record 19 seats, reports Al Jazeera.E...
Bangla Press Desk: A fire ripped through a school in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Bukavu on Thursday, sparking a stampede that killed at least 14 children, local and health sources said.The blaze began while the children were in l...
Bangla Press Desk: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the Indian capital on Friday ahead of an 11-member BRICS summit set to be dominated by wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, as well as economic challenges.Putin and Iranian President Maso...
Bangla Press Desk: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will sue the Haaretz newspaper over a report that claimed he was warned of Hamas’s plans for an offensive days before the attacks of October 7, 2023, Al Jazeera reports.In a st...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan said on Thursday that there were no discussions about a military reaction from Islamabad under the Makkah agreement in response to the Houthis' attacks on Saudi Arabia, but added that Pakistan will "act" when the "ti...
Bangla Press Desk: President Donald Trump gave tens of thousands of dollars in cash gifts last year to executive assistant Natalie Harp and three other close aides working in the West Wing, according to financial disclosures released by the White H...
Bangla Press Desk: At least five people were killed and 87 remain unaccounted for after a fire erupted aboard a ferry near a tourist hotspot in the Philippines province of Palawan, the coast guard said Thursday.The fire aboard the M/V June Aster brok...
Bangla Press Desk: In a modest wooden home in Sardinal, about a 20-minute drive from Costa Rica's Pacific coast, Jose Flores spends his days napping, eating meals prepared by his granddaughter, and arm-wrestling with her.His family and of...
Bangla Press Desk: Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the US sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-mo...
Bangla Press Desk: Ukraine is contracting a supply of around 1,000 missiles for U.S.-designed Patriot air-defence systems with the help of allies and through a European Union loan, Kyiv's defence minister said on Tuesday.Speaking at a meeting...
Bangla Press Desk: A moderate earthquake measuring magnitude 5.3 struck the Tibet Autonomous Region on Wednesday according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).The seismic event was recorded at a depth of 35 kilometre...
Bangla Press Desk: The European Union is poised for a big reveal of its plans to keep minors safe online -- but proposals to restrict their social media access and force age checks have drawn fire from children's rights groups and privacy...
Bangla Press Desk: UK travellers faced more misery on Wednesday with more than 150 flights scrapped across the country, as Britain's air traffic control service scrambled to recover from a technical glitch that sparked chaos.Aircraft trac...
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