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Bangla Press Desk: An Air India Express flight from Saudi Arabia’s Dammam to New Delhi with 40 people, including crew, onboard made an emergency landing at Ahmedabad airport on Monday after a cr...
Bangla Press Desk: In Portugal, violators face fines ranging from €150 to €3,000, with exemptions for health, professional, artistic or weather-related reasons, as well as in places of worship, diplomatic missions and on aircraft.Portugal's Pre...
Bangla Press Desk: Hefty US tariffs on some Canadian products took effect on Saturday after days of negotiations that went down to the wire failed to produce an agreement.Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed that his country will match the...
Bangla Press Desk: The US imposed 50% tariffs on some Canadian goods on Saturday after the two longstanding allies failed to reach a trade deal, with each side accusing the other of derailing days of talks.The tariffs that came into effect just...
Bangla Press Desk: The United States and Iran exchanged defiant messages ahead of Monday's scheduled announcement of new US economic sanctions that could impact the Islamic Republic and Tehran's most important trading partners including China....
Bangla Press Desk: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for an end to the months-long war with the United States, stating that Tehran holds a position of strength as diplomatic talks remain stalled, Al Jazeera reports.“It is better th...
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Bangla Press Desk: Nancy Kissinger, the wife of late former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, reportedly died Thursday at her home in South Kent, Conn. She was 92.Kissinger’s death, citing an announcement by her family, was first reported...
Bangla Press Desk: Five women and three men are in the running to succeed Antonio Guterres as leader of the United Nations, which faces unprecedented global instability, wars and its own crushing budget crisis.Observers say it is difficult to pick a...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has congratulated Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on his election as president of Bangladesh, expressing hope for stronger bilateral relations between the two countries.In a statement on Thursday, Z...
Bangla Press Desk: A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck southern Peru on Thursday, US seismologists said, with authorities reporting minor injuries to three people, according to a preliminary report.The epicenter of the quake was located about 40...
Bangla Press Desk: The death toll from devastating floods in southern China last month jumped to 159 on Friday, state media reported, with ten people still missing.Typhoon Maysak wreaked havoc across parts of southern China in July, bringing torrenti...
Bangla Press Desk: At least eight people died and nearly 40 others were taken ill over the past 24 hours after they allegedly consumed spurious liquor mixed with methanol in India's western state of Gujarat, confirmed a local official on Friday.The h...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan is medically fit and back in jail after being examined by a team of doctors in a hospital overnight, the country's information minister said on Friday, a move that had not been widely ant...
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