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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: The death toll from Thursday's Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv has risen to 26, including three children, Ukraine's interior ministry said. The toll previously stood at 16, including two children, but was rev...
Bangla Press Desk: Tata Steel has been fined £1.5m after a contractor was killed at work in its Port Talbot plant. Justin Day was found slumped in a "hot rolling channel" on 25 September 2019 after being crushed by a large steel beam. The 4...
Bangla Press Desk: Barefoot and dressed in tattered clothes, Amir approached a GHF aid distribution point in Gaza desperate for help. He had walked 12km (7.5 miles) to collect food. And moments after the frail boy received his small packets...
Bangla Press Desk: US hiring is slowing sharply as President Donald Trump’s erratic and radical trade policies paralyze businesses and raise doubts about the outlook for the world’s largest economy. The Labor Department reported Frid...
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 arms embargo on Israel by a European nation. Tiny Slovenia has almost no arms trade w...
Bangla Press Desk: South African police said Friday they have arrested some 1,000 undocumented migrants working in illegal gold mines in the northeast of the country. A police spokesman for the Mpumalanga province, where the week-long sw...
Noman Sabit: An unlicensed interstate cannabis operation that transported thousands of pounds of marijuana and other illegal products from California to Queens was smashed following a search of two trucks and two storage locations in Ma...
Bangla Press Desk: The United States’ decision to reduce reciprocal tariffs on Bangladeshi exports, from 35% to 20%, has been welcomed by economists as a significant breakthrough. However, they warn that without urgent structural reforms, g...
Bangla Press Desk: Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli gunfire and air strikes killed at least 22 people on Friday, including eight who were waiting to collect food aid in the war-battered Palestinian territory. Civil defence spokes...
Bangla Press Desk: The Ethics and Diversity Club (EDC) of North South University (NSU) sponsored by Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) successfully organised “Diplomacy Reimagined: Policy Making Case Competition 2025” at the university’s Syndicate...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines Friday in an extraordinary escalation of what had been an online war of words with a Russian official over Ukraine and tariffs. Trump and Dmitr...
Bangla Press Desk: Israel is “engineering chaos and massacres” in the Gaza Strip by continuing to block aid deliveries and opening fire on starving Palestinians seeking desperately needed food supplies, a humanitarian official has warned, r...
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