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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%...
Ema Alice: The Trump administration was dealt another court blow Friday as a federal judge in San Francisco blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for a group of migrants. U.S. District Judge Trina Th...
Bangla Press Desk: Gaza faces a grave risk of famine, with one in three people going days without food, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned. UNICEF on Friday urged the international community to act swiftly as conditions continu...
Abu Sabet: More than 50 signatures on New York mayor Eric Adams’ petition to run as an independent candidate in November’s election are fraudulent, according to a report published on Friday. The Gothamist said it had found 52 signatu...
Minara Helen: New York City felt all shook up from the ripple effects of a northern New Jersey earthquake that struck on Saturday night. The 3.0 Richter scale tremor hit at about 10:18 p.m. on Aug. 3 in Hasbrouck Heights. It occurred...
Bangla Press Desk: SpaceX delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station on Saturday, making the trip in a quick 15 hours. The four U.S., Russian and Japanese astronauts pulled up in their SpaceX capsule after launching from...
Bangla Press Desk: Palestinian armed group Hamas has vehemently turned down rumours that it backed US-Israeli demands for relinquishing weapons, saying the fighters would instead continue their struggle for setting up a sovereign Palestini...
Bangla Press Desk: Israeli forces killed 57 people across Gaza Strip since dawn on Saturday, and over 61% of the victims were hungry aid seekers. The deaths come on top of those killed in Israel's starvation tactics. The barbarities show...
Ema Alice: Immediately after Zohran Mamdani became the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City last month, one Republican congressman had a provocative suggestion for the Trump administration: “He...
Bangla Press Desk: Iran confirmed fresh talks with European powers to be held on Friday in Istanbul, the country's state media reported, the first since the United States attacked Iranian nuclear facilities a month ago. Iranian diplo...
Bangla Press Desk: Russia and Iran will begin the three-day CASAREX 2025 joint drills in the Caspian Sea on July 21, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday. These drills are of a search and rescue nature. The naval forces of...
Ema Alice: U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs, today issued the following statement on the deadly military plane crash in Dhaka,...
Bangla Press Desk: The Indian High Commission in Dhaka has formally offered to arrange critical medical support in India for those injured in the plane crash at Milestone School and College in Dhaka, following the Indian Prime Minister’s m...
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