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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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Bangla Press Desk: Rescuers combed through debris for survivors after a powerful earthquake struck off Indonesia's Flores Island on Saturday, killing at least 38 people, according to a disaster official.Suharyanto, head of Indonesia's national...
Bangla Press Desk: Myanmar’s military-backed government said Saturday that more than 300,000 Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh are former residents of western Rakhine state and that it will accept their return once security condit...
Bangla Press Desk: President Donald Trump on Friday said he would "soon" declare the Strait of Hormuz waterway part of US territory after defeating Iran."After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated -- pretty soon I'll be declar...
Bangla Press Desk: An attack on the Sudanese town of Umm Arda killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more, a local NGO said, attributing the bloodshed to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.Earlier in the day, the RSF had claimed to have take...
Bangla Press Desk: At least seven workers were killed and 13 injured following a landslide that sent water and debris gushing into a tunnel under construction in north India, officials said Friday.The incident occurred late Thursday in the Hima...
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Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan's Independence Day was observed at the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka on Friday with various programmes.The ceremony began with the hoisting of the national flag by Pakistan High Commissioner Imran Haider, accompa...
Bangla Press Desk: A day before Independence Day, the Delhi High Court, Terminal 3 of Delhi airport and several government offices in the Indian capital received bomb threats via email on Friday.Police declared all the threats hoaxes after carr...
Bangla Press Desk: Shipping traffic at the Strait of Hormuz fell below the month average towards the end of the week due to volatile sentiment between the United States and Iran, with both countries making competing claims over its control.The...
Noman Sabit: A two-count indictment was unsealed today charging 11 individuals with conspiring, over the course of more than a decade, to orchestrate more than 1,000 sham marriages to fraudulently obtain immigration status for foreign nationals,...
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Bangla Press Desk: Israeli forces on Thursday moved against rogue settlers who have besieged Palestinians amid unusually strong US criticism, even as Israel inaugurated a major settlement elsewhere in the West Bank.Settlers near Nablus since Su...
Bangla Press Desk: Former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba returned to Nepal on Thursday after spending nearly five months abroad, arriving in Kathmandu via Hong Kong.Deuba landed at Tribhuvan International Airport at around 12:30pm and is exp...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 44 people drowned after an overcrowded ferry capsized on Zimbabwe's Lake Kariba, police said Wednesday, releasing an updated toll a day after the disaster.A witness told AFP soon after the government ferry sank in ro...
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