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Bangla Press Desk: France's parliament on Tuesday approved a bill banning social media access for children under 15, making France the first European country to bar children from apps such as Ti...
Bangla Press Desk: Qatar said Saturday it will host a summit of Arab and Muslim leaders to denounce Israel's attack on Hamas officials in Doha and to show solidarity with the Gulf state. Monday's meeting would consider "a draft resoluti...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 101 people have died in the worst floods to hit Punjab in decades, Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Director General Irfan Ali Kathia said on Saturday. Speaking to the media at the Commissioner...
Bangla Press Desk: Russia on Saturday said it had captured a new village in Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region, which Moscow's forces say they reached at the beginning of July. The defence ministry said its troops had seized the vi...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistani security forces raided two hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border in the past two days, triggering fierce clashes that killed 12 soldiers and 35 militants, the military said Saturday. Th...
Bangla Press Desk: Qatar's prime minister warned Wednesday that an unprecedented Israeli strike in Doha targeting Hamas killed hope for Gaza hostages, calling for Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu to be "brought to justice". His comm...
Bangla Press Desk: A short-lived ban on social media platforms has prompted violent protests in Kathmandu, forcing the prime minister KP Sharma Oli to resign and flee the country and mobilising the military to restore order. In one of the many pow...
Bangla Press Desk: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister called upcoming joint military drills involving the United States and its allies a "reckless show of strength" that would bring "bad results", state media said Sunday....
Bangla Press Desk: UK leader Keir Starmer sacked his ambassador in Washington Peter Mandelson on Thursday following "reprehensible" fresh revelations about the diplomat's friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Dubbed the "Prin...
Bangla Press Desk: Nepal's president and army sought on Friday to find a consensus interim leader to fill a political vacuum after deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the government and left parliament in flames. The Himalayan nation...
Bangla Press Desk: Two days after an Indian national, Chandra Nagamallaiah was brutally murdered and decapitated by an undocumented immigrant from Cuba, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Immigration and Customs Enf...
Ema Alice: Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani will apologize for a 2020 social media post in which he called the NYPD “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety,” his campaign confirmed to amNewYor...
Bangla Press Desk: Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani has said if elected, he would direct the New York Police Department to arrest Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he sets foot in the city. In an...
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