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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: The New York police officer killed in a mass shooting in a Manhattan skyscraper on Monday was described by the city's mayor and police commissioner as a heroic Bangladeshi immigrant who saved lives while "putting his...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 20 people have been killed and more than 40 wounded in overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine, regional officials said on Tuesday. Strikes on the Zaporizhzhia region killed 16 people and wounded 35, Ivan Fed...
Bangla Press Desk: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the UK will recognise a Palestinian state at a UN meeting in September unless Israel meets certain conditions. He said that the recognition will proceed unless the Israe...
Bangla Press Desk: The Royal Thai Government has accused Cambodian military forces of violating a recently agreed ceasefire by launching indiscriminate attacks along the Thai-Cambodian border, despite ongoing efforts to restore peace....
Bangla Press Desk: Gaza's civil defence agency said Tuesday that Israeli air strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians, including women and children, in the central Nuseirat district. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the stri...
Noman Sabit: Bangladeshi-origin police officer Didarul Islam, who was killed in a horrific shooting in the busy Midtown area of Manhattan, New York City, was not on duty at the time of the incident. This information was confirmed by officials fro...
Ema Alice: ICE agents arrest a U.S. citizen who has no criminal record and then tell him to shave his beard. Which is what happened to a 33-year-old Houston man whose looks got him arrested and detained. Miguel Ponce Jr, born in Texa...
Bangla Press Desk: Malta is set to become the 150th country among 193 to unconditionally recognise Palestine as a sovereign state at the United Nations General Assembly in September. The tally could have been 151, had London not attached any strin...
Bangla Press Desk: Tsunamis hit parts of Russia's Far East and Japan on Wednesday after a huge magnitude 8.8 earthquake, with warnings in place around the Pacific of waves of over three metres (10 feet) in places. Russia's emergencies mi...
Bangla Press Desk: In a landmark decision, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, has issued a federal decree promoting Sheikh Hamdan. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Makto...
Bangla Press Desk: The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a global hunger monitoring system, has warned that the “worst-case scenario of famine” is now unfolding in Gaza, as Israel continues to block the delivery of vital human...
Bangla Press Desk: A tsunami 1.3 metres (4.3 feet) high reached a port in Japan's northern Iwate prefecture at 1:52 pm (0452 GMT), Japan's weather agency said. The Japan Meteorological Agency kept its tsunami alerts that waves of up to t...
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