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Bangla Press Desk: Russia launched waves of drones at Ukraine's capital Kyiv and surrounding region on Friday, damaging warehouses and homes in a second consecutive day of strikes Ukrainian offi...
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The US has imposed sanctions on six people and three companies it says have ties to Iran's elite military force, the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the penalties targeted those who had funnelled millions o...
Banglapress Online: Arkady Babchenko, the Russian journalist who was reported to have been shot dead in Kiev, has turned up alive at a news conference in Ukraine. Babchenko emerged at a police press conference on Wednesday afternoon in front of jou...
The White House wants intrusive inspections of Iran's nuclear sites to continue despite President Donald Trump's withdrawal from a landmark accord on Tehran's atomic programme, US officials said. Days after the US president walked away from a thre...
Banglapress Online: The right-hand man to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York to discuss a historic summit. Gen Kim Yong-chol flew in from the Chinese capital Beijing on an Air China flight. He is t...
Banglapress Online: The United States has indicated more action from the international community over Rohingya issue and other areas of concerns in Myanmar in the coming days terming the situation 'dire'. "Secretary (former) Tillerson had announced...
Banglapress Online:Today, in the Turkish city of Gebze, the inauguration ceremony of the United Nations Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was held. Dr. Faruk Ozlu, Minister of Science, Industry and Technology of Turkey, Dr. M...
New York Correspondent: U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officers instructed Reuters on Thursday, within the first large-scale use of federal prisons to carry de...
New York Correspondent: Two women say an Uber driver kicked them out of his car after he saw them kiss in the back seat. The driver’s taxi license, required to drive for Uber in New York City, has been suspended as the New York City Taxi and Limousi...
Banglapress Online:First Lady calls on ‘both sides’ to come together on immigration reform as Democrats press for changes on controversial policy Melania Trump’s spokeswoman has said the first lady “hates to see children separated from their famili...
Banglapress desk,Dhaka :New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has given birth to her first child, a girl weighing 3.31kg (7.3lb). This makes her only the second elected leader in modern history to give birth while in office. Ms Ardern was admi...
Banglapress, dhaka: Judges at the International Criminal Court have given Myanmar a deadline to respond to a prosecution request that they consider hearing a case on the alleged deportation of Rohingya minorities to Bangladesh. In a decision pub...
Banglapress dhaka: President Trump appeared to give up hope on Friday that the Republican-controlled Congress could succeed in passing an immigration bill this year, urging lawmakers in a Twitter post to stop “wasting their time.” His advice is like...
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