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Bangla Press Desk: Escalating hostilities between the United States and Iran could reignite inflation, drive interest rates higher and knock global growth back to as low as 1.3%, down from 2.9%...
Bangla Press Desk: Two days of unrest and looting in Angola during a protest against a fuel price hike claimed the lives of 22 people, the government said Wednesday, as a tense calm returned to the capital. Violence erupted on Monday, th...
Bangla Press Desk: Canada plans to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday, a dramatic policy shift that was immediately rejected by Israel. Carney said the move wa...
Bangla Press Desk: Israeli attacks have killed at least 71 Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid amid a deepening hunger crisis in Gaza, medical sources told Al Jazeera, as hospitals in the besieged territory recorded seven more deaths from...
Bangla Press Desk: The administration of United States President Donald Trump has announced sanctions against members of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), accusing them of attempti...
Bangla Press Desk: Microsoft surged above $4 trillion in market value early Thursday following strong earnings, as investor bullishness for artificial intelligence lifted major indices further into record territory. Both the S&P...
Bangla Press Desk: The United States took in more revenue from tariffs in the first six months of 2025 than it did in all of 2024, according to data from the US Treasury compiled by AFP. The more than $87 billion in tariff revenue ta...
Bangla Press Desk: Beijing city officials admitted on Thursday they had not been prepared for heavy rains that soaked swathes of the capital, killing 44 people and leaving nine still missing. Swathes of northern China endured deadly...
Bangla Press Desk: President Donald Trump plans to build a ballroom at the White House as he pushes forward with remodeling the US executive mansion, his spokeswoman said Thursday. Trump himself and unspecified donors will foot the b...
Bangla Press Desk: President Donald Trump's envoy met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday ahead of a visit to inspect aid distribution in Gaza, as a deadly food crisis drove mounting international pressure for a ceasefire...
Bangla Press Desk: Slovenia said Thursday that it will ban all weapons trade with Israel over the war in Gaza, in what it said is a first by an EU nation. Slovenia's government has frequently criticised Israel over the conflict, and las...
Abu Sabet: New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani reacted to Monday's mass shooting in midtown Manhattan with a predictable, left-wing demand for more "gun control." The democratic socialist parroted the anti-Sec...
Bangla Press Desk: Brazil vowed Thursday to combat US President Donald Trump's tariffs on its exports, saying it intends to lodge appeals if last-ditch negotiations fail. Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said the tariffs announced Wedne...
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