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BanglaPress Desk: Following the Democratic Party's victory in both chambers of Congress during the U.S. midterm elections, President Donald Trump has congratulated his opponents, acknowledging that th...
Bangla Press Desk: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned on Wednesday a move by Israel to ban electricity or water to facilities owned by the UN Palestinian refugee agency, a UN spokesperson said.The spokesperson said the...
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Bangla Press Desk: A total of 128 journalists were killed around the world in 2025, more than half of them in the Middle East, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said Thursday.The grim toll, up from 2024, "is not just a statistic...
Bangla Press Desk: Revellers around the world toasted the start of 2026, bidding farewell on Wednesday to a volatile year when temperatures soared, US President Donald Trump upended global trade, and the brutal conflict in Ukraine raged on.Whil...
Bangla Press Desk: India has imposed an excise duty on cigarettes in a range of 2,050-8,500 rupees ($22.8-$94.5) per thousand sticks based on the length of the products, effective February 1, the finance ministry said in an order late on Wednes...
Noman Sabit: Police in Texas have recovered the body of missing teen Camila Mendoza Olmos eight days after she disappeared. Authorities have confirmed that the recovered body is that of Camila. Multiple sources, including ABC News and NewsNation, rep...
Ema Alice: Many countries require your passport to be valid for at least six months beyond your intended date of departure from the foreign country, a rule enforced by dozens of countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Yet thousand...
Minara Helen: Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, died Tuesday morning, a month after announcing her terminal cancer diagnosis. She was 35.Her family announced her death in a post on...
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Bangla Press Desk: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday Kyiv was discussing with Washington a possible presence of US troops in Ukraine as part of security guarantees, and also raised what he called a faked attack on Russian...
Ema Alice: The Justice Department (DOJ) is challenging a Virginia law that that makes some migrants illegally in the country eligible for in-state tuition, filing a lawsuit against the state Monday.Virginia law extends eligibility to people who estab...
Minara Helen: Officials said a train accident in southern Mexico killed at least 13 people and injured dozens, halting traffic along a rail line connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico.The Interoceanic Train linking the states of Oaxaca...
Bangla Press Desk: China's military moved army, naval, air force and artillery units around Taiwan on Monday for its "Justice Mission 2025" drills, as the island vowed to defend democracy and mobilised troops to rehearse repelling a poten...
Bangla Press Desk: US Donald Trump welcomed Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky to his Florida estate Sunday for critical talks on ending the war with Russia. The two leaders stood outside the Mar-a-Lago resort and addressed reporters as they pr...
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