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Bangla Press Desk: Hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough in the US-Israeli war with Iran receded as a new week began, with talks aimed at ending the two-month conflict at a standstill and both Tehr...
Bangla Press Desk: Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to the first phase of US President Donald Trump's plan for Gaza.Despite the hopes raised for ending the two-year war, crucial details are yet to be spelled out.These include the timing, a post-w...
Bangla Press Desk: The Gaza civil defence agency reported Thursday several strikes on the territory after the announcement that Hamas and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire plan."Since the announcement last night of an agreement on a proposed...
Bangla Press Desk: Afghanistan's UN-sanctioned foreign minister arrived in India on Thursday, the first visit by a top Taliban leader since they returned to power in 2021 following the withdrawal of US-led forces.Amir Khan Muttaqi's trip -- made poss...
Staff Reporter: 25-year-old man charged with murder of his parents in Waterbury double shooting A man has been charged with murdering his parents in a double shooting Monday in Waterbury, police said.The suspect, Javian Adams, 25, of Waterbury, was c...
Minara Helen: Republican labels Mamdani as 'little more than a Muslim terrorist,' advocates yanking citizenship, deportation Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida lambasted New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as ‘little more tha...
Bangla Press Desk: Israel has repeatedly denied permission to transfer incubators from an evacuated hospital in North Gaza, a UN children's agency official said on Tuesday, adding to strain on overcrowded hospitals further south where newborn babies...
Bangla Press Desk: Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family’s food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant bab...
Bangla Press Desk: Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Central Asian leaders in Tajikistan on Thursday, for only the second such summit since the fall of the Soviet Union, as Moscow jostles with China and Europe for influence.Weakened by the w...
Bangla Press Desk: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian forces had captured almost 5,000 square km (1,930 square miles) of land in Ukraine in 2025 and that Moscow retained complete strategic initiative on the battlefield.Russ...
Bangla Press Desk: Ukraine and Russia launched attacks on each other's territory early on Wednesday, leaving at least five people dead, authorities on the two sides said.In Russia's Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, a missile strike killed three peo...
Bangla Press Desk: Russia said Wednesday that momentum towards reaching a peace deal in Ukraine had largely vanished following Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump's presidential summit in Alaska, dimming hopes for a quick end to the three-and-a-half year...
Bangla Press Desk: Qatar's prime minister and senior delegates from the United States and Turkey will join Hamas and Israeli negotiators on Wednesday for a third day of talks aimed at ending the Gaza war.Israel and Hamas are holding indirec...
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