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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: An explosion ripped through a mosque in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri and killed at least seven worshippers Wednesday, according to witnesses and security sources.No armed groups immediately claimed respon...
Bangla Press Desk: The White House has ordered US military forces to focus almost exclusively on enforcing a "quarantine" of Venezuelan oil for at least the next two months, a US official told Reuters, indicating Washington is currently more in...
Abu Sabet: Santa may deliver the ultimate Christmas gift to someone on the nice list this year – the $1.7 billion Powerball jackpot.The current jackpot is the fourth-largest in history, according to Powerball, and the game's second biggest this year...
Noman Sabit: More than 17,500 illegal immigrants in 2025 have been arrested for crimes requiring mandatory detention under the Laken Riley Act — the first law President Donald Trump signed in his second term.The act is named for Laken Riley, a Georgi...
Ema Alice: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Trump administration, upholding its $100,000 H-1B visa fee.U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell rejected a challenge filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Association of American Univers...
Bangla Press Desk: The European Union "strongly condemns" US sanctions imposed on five European figures involved in regulating tech companies, including former European Commissioner Thierry Breton, the Commission said Wednesday. The US Sta...
Bangla Press Desk: The Libyan army's chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, died in a plane crash on Tuesday after leaving Turkey's capital Ankara, the prime minister of Libya's internationally recognised government said, adding that fou...
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Bangla Press Desk: China has launched a complaint with the World Trade Organization over Indian measures on trade of solar cells and modules as well as information technology goods, the global trade body said Tuesday.The WTO said that Beijing h...
Bangla Press Desk: A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit the US Department of Justice filed challenging a New York law that President Donald Trump's administration said was impeding immigration enforcement.US District Judge Anne Nardac...
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Bangla Press Desk: Four Myanmar nationals caught in Bangkok on Tuesday with 10 heavy-lift cargo drones they planned to smuggle to their home country will be deported there, Thai police said.The use of drones by Myanmar's military and myriad reb...
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Bangla Press Desk: South Korea and the United States will negotiate a treaty to support Seoul's plan to build nuclear-powered submarines with US help, Seoul's presidential adviser said on Wednesday.South Korea plans to use low-enriched uranium...
Bangla Press Desk: Australia cancelled the visa of a British national after he was charged with displaying a banned Nazi symbol, the immigration minister said on Wednesday, as the country cracks down on antisemitism in the wake of a mass shooti...
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