International news and global updates
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: The US State Department said Monday some visa applicants will soon be required to pay bonds of up to $15,000 to discourage visa overstays as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on migration. Starting later this...
Bangla Press Desk: The Chinese government provided $3.3 million in cash to Myanmar’s new regime on Tuesday (5 August) for small and midsize projects. China made the money available from the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Special Fund, a po...
Bangla Press Desk: A Brazilian judge on Monday placed former president Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest for breaking a social media ban, escalating a dramatic standoff between the court and the politician, who is accused of plotting a cou...
Bangla Press Desk: Nations must resolve the global plastics crisis, the head of UN talks told negotiators from 180 countries gathered in Geneva on Tuesday to forge a landmark treaty on eliminating the life-threatening waste. "We are fa...
Bangla Press Desk: Russia has declared that it no longer considers itself bound by a self-imposed moratorium on the deployment of nuclear-capable intermediate range missiles, a warning that potentially sets the stage for a new arms race a...
Bangla Press Desk: The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Denmark will buy $1 billion of US weapons under a new NATO scheme to support Ukraine in its war against Russia, the countries announced Tuesday. The purchases from US stockpiles...
Bangla Press Desk: Monsoon floods in a rebel-held Myanmar town on the country's mountainous border with China have killed six people, a spokesman for the armed group controlling the area said Wednesday. The northern town of Laiza bord...
Bangla Press Desk: Hungry children in war-torn Sudan's capital have been reduced to "skin and bones", and thousands of families are at risk of starvation in a western city under a months-long siege, the UN said Tuesday. The Sudanese...
Bangla Press Desk: Police in Pakistan arrested more than 150 activists of the main opposition party holding protests across the country on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the jailing of their leader Imran Khan, security officials and...
Bangla Press Desk: Blood donations are needed now, right now, across the remaining operational medical facilities in Gaza – Al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Aqsa Hospital, Nasser Hospital. Hani Mahmoud said, "We read and hear doctors’ appeal fo...
Noman Sabit: The State Department is set to roll out a pilot program that may require foreign nationals from certain countries seeking business or tourism visas to post a bond of up to $15,000, according to a public notice set to be pub...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 135 Palestinians, including 87 aid seekers, have been killed and 771 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The number of people who starve...
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