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Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s office has drawn criticism after sharing a cropped photograph from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit that appeared to...
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Bangla Press Desk: A landmark global treaty to safeguard biodiversity in the high seas came into effect on Saturday, providing countries with a legally binding framework to tackle threats such as overfishing and meet a target to protect 3...
Bangla Press Desk: From the Gulf states to Turkey and Pakistan, Iran's neighbours know well the risks that US strikes targeting the Islamic republic would entail, from regional conflagration to waves of migration.AFP looks at the potential reg...
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Bangla Press Desk: A US judge on Friday ordered immigration agents in Minnesota to dial back their aggressive tactics, barring the detention or arrest of peaceful protesters and drivers, and using pepper-spray against demonstrators.In the 83-pa...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump took the unusual step on Friday of thanking the Iranian government for not following through on executions of what he said was meant to be hundreds of political prisoners.“Iran canceled the hanging o...
Bangla Press Desk: A US judge on Friday gave the Trump administration three weeks to "rectify the mistake" it made by deporting a college student to Honduras while she was traveling home to spend Thanksgiving with her family in Texas, and he re...
Minara Helen: A New York prison guard who stood idly by as other guards beat a handcuffed inmate to death should be convicted of manslaughter, prosecutors argued Thursday.Former corrections officer Michael Fisher, 55, has been charged with second-deg...
Noman Sabit: A Yonkers, N.Y. man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for a scheme to steal an $810,000 tax refund by impersonating a corporate executive in Connecticut.Steven Ware, 64, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge...
Ema Alice: Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that De’Ovryion Elijha Ray was extradited to New York and arraigned on an indictment charging him with murder and criminal possession of a weapon for the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Dashann...
Bangla Press Desk: The Munich Security Conference, one of the world's top security forums, said on Friday it was withdrawing an invitation to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi after the Tehran government's crackdown on protests across Iran...
Bangla Press Desk: Iran's deadly crackdown appears to have broadly quelled protests for now, according to a rights group and residents, as state media reported more arrests on Friday in the shadow of repeated US threats to intervene if the kill...
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Bangla Press Desk: Najiba, 24, keeps a constant watch over her baby, Artiya, one of around four million children at risk of dying from malnutrition this year in Afghanistan.After suffering a bout of pneumonia at three months old, Artiya’s cond...
Bangla Press Desk: New Zealand said Friday it has temporarily closed its embassy in Tehran and flown out its diplomats because of worsening security in Iran.Diplomatic staff left Iran safely on commercial flights overnight, a spokesperson for...
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