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Bangla Press Desk: Ankit Yadav, a seafarer from India, has been stuck on a boat at an inland Iranian port for about 2-1/2 weeks, surviving with his three fellow mariners on limited rations of to...
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Bangla Press Desk: As the Gaza war rages on, France recognized Palestinian statehood on Monday at the start of a high-profile meeting at the United Nations aimed at galvanizing support for a two-state solution to the Mideast conflict. More...
Bangla Press Desk: Israel's military kept up its assault on Gaza City and the wider Gaza Strip on Saturday, dismantling underground shafts and booby-trapped structures in attacks that killed at least 60 Palestinians, according to Gazan health autho...
Bangla Press Desk: Taliban government in Afghanistan on Sunday refused a deal over Bagram air base after US President Donald Trump’s threat. Fasihuddin Fitrat, chief of staff of Afghanistan's ministry of defence, said a deal over Bagr...
Bangla Press Desk: For many Indian H-1B holders in US stuck abroad, Donald Trump’s shock announcement of a $100,000 visa fees -- followed by Big Tech companies instructing employees overseas to return within a day -- sent them scrambling t...
Bangla Press Desk: Tens of thousands demonstrated Sunday in Budapest, accusing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of spending taxpayers' money on campaigns to mislead voters and inflame hatred for political gain. Since returning t...
Bangla Press Desk: Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin said countries recognising a Palestinian state this week were taking an irreversible step that preserved the two-state solution and brought Palestinian independenc...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will participate in a meeting of "select" Muslim leaders with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in New York, t...
Bangla Press Desk: Britain, Australia, Canada and Portugal on Sunday recognised a Palestinian state after nearly two years of war in Gaza, with France, Belgium and other countries poised to follow suit at the UN General Assembly. Here is an over...
Bangla Press Desk: The recent UN General Assembly vote on the resolution known as the “New York Declaration” marked a turning point in the long and fraught path of the Palestinian question. The resolution passed with 142 votes in favor, 10...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan's nuclear umbrella will cover Saudi Arabia, a source close to the kingdom's government told AFP on Sunday, days after the two allies signed a surprise mutual defence treaty. The source told AFP that the deal h...
Bangla Press Desk: Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump a nuclear arms control deal on Monday that would extend the last treaty limiting both countries' nuclear weapons by one year while Moscow and...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan police and security sources said aerial bombing in a remote border region killed at least 23 civilians on Monday in an area where militancy has been rising. Opposition MPs accused the military of carrying...
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