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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: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that it was not easy to agree with the United States on the key parts of a possible peace deal to end the war in Ukraine and that Russia would never again allow itself to de...
Bangla Press Desk: Meta Platforms said on Monday it would use interactions that users have with its AI, as well as public posts and comments shared by adults across its platforms, to train its artificial intelligence models in the Europ...
Bangla Press Desk: Harvard on Monday rejected numerous demands from the Trump administration that it said would cede control of the school to a conservative government that portrays universities as dangerously leftist. Within hours o...
Ema Alice: A Massachusetts immigration lawyer who is a US-born American citizen is speaking out after she received an email from Trump administration immigration authorities telling her she needed to leave the country. Nicole Micheroni...
Noman Sabit: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday announced the cancelation of more than $2.7 million in grants to Harvard University amid tensions between the school and the Trump administration. The Department of Home...
Bangla Press Desk: Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sent his foreign minister to Moscow on Thursday with a letter for President Vladimir Putin to brief the Kremlin about nuclear negotiations with the US, which has threatene...
Bangla Press Desk: The Indian Supreme Court has paused all activities under the amended Muslim charity land (waqf) control bill until the next hearing over the matter in the week starting 5 May. The Supreme Court on Thursday granted...
Bangla Press Desk: More than 130 international students across the United States have joined a federal lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully canceling their visas, jeopardizing their legal status in the country, court documents show...
Noman Sabit: The Social Security Administration has taken the unprecedented step of classifying more than 6,000 immigrants as dead to pressure them to self-deport. Now, some of those very-much-alive people are showing up at SSA offices...
Noman Sabit: A gunman opened fire on the main campus of Florida State University on Thursday, leaving two people dead and putting six people in the hospital. Gunfire rang out near the campus's student union at around 11:50 a.m., accordi...
Bangla Press Desk: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has reiterated that all pilgrims planning to perform Hajj in the 1446 AH season must secure an official permit via the “Nusuk” platform, which is linked to the centralized digital system fo...
Ema Alice: An American citizen was held in a Florida jail at the request of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) despite the county judge being able to see the man’s U.S. birth certificate in court. Juan Carlos Lopez-Gome...
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