International news and global updates
Bangla Press Desk: Outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Tuesday that Britain would spend almost £300 billion ($397 billion) over the next four years to modernise its armed for...
Bangla Press Desk: Myanmar's top general Min Aung Hlaing was months from retirement when he made a dictatorial about-face nearly five years ago, deposing the democratic government and promoting himself to leader.The bespectacled and diminutive...
Bangla Press Desk: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Novo Nordisk's NOVOb.CO weight-loss pill on Monday, giving the Danish drugmaker a leg up in the race to market a potent oral medication for shedding pounds as it looks to regain...
Ema Alice: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it is tripling the financial incentive for migrants without legal status to self-deport over the Christmas period, now offering a $3,000 “exit bonus” until the end of December for those who le...
Chhabed Sathee: Pakistan-origin defendants Zakia Khan and Ahsan Ijaz have pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, to fraud totaling $68 million (approximately Tk 8.31 billion). According to federal prosecutors, Zakia Khan and Ahsan Ija...
Noman Sabit: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports that nearly 7,000 convicted migrant criminals have been released in New York without federal notification since the Trump era. Officials argued the lack of communication has heightened public...
Bangla Press Desk: Saudi Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman decorated Chief of the Pakistani Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir with King Abdulaziz Medal of Excellent Class.This is in line with the directive of Custodian o...
Abu Sabet: The operator of illegal online marketplaces that sold digital templates of false identity documents, such as passports, social security cards, and driver’s licenses, was charged in a nine-count federal indictment unsealed in the District o...
Bangla Press Desk: Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, a presidential spokesman said Sunday, after 100 were freed earlier this month."Another 1...
Bangla Press Desk: A coach bus slammed into a barrier on an Indonesian highway early Monday, flipping over in an accident that killed at least 16 people, a rescue worker said.The bus, which was headed from the capital Jakarta to Yogyakar...
Bangla Press Desk: The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a decision to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant on Monday, a watershed moment in the country's pivot back to nuclear since the 2011 Fukushima disaster...
Bangla Press Desk: The US Coast Guard was pursuing another allegedly sanctioned tanker on Sunday, a US official told AFP, as Washington ramps up its pressure campaign targeting Venezuela's vital oil sector.The "active pursuit" in the Car...
Bangla Press Desk: Southeast Asian foreign ministers meet in Malaysia on Monday, seeking to end border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia that have killed at least 40 people and displaced more than half a million this month.The minist...
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