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Bangla Press Desk: Britain's King Charles III begins a state visit to the United States on Monday, as transatlantic tensions simmer over the Iran war, and despite a shooting two days earlier at...
Bangla Press Desk: Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, a presidential spokesman said Sunday, after 100 were freed earlier this month."Another 1...
Bangla Press Desk: A coach bus slammed into a barrier on an Indonesian highway early Monday, flipping over in an accident that killed at least 16 people, a rescue worker said.The bus, which was headed from the capital Jakarta to Yogyakar...
Bangla Press Desk: The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a decision to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant on Monday, a watershed moment in the country's pivot back to nuclear since the 2011 Fukushima disaster...
Bangla Press Desk: The US Coast Guard was pursuing another allegedly sanctioned tanker on Sunday, a US official told AFP, as Washington ramps up its pressure campaign targeting Venezuela's vital oil sector.The "active pursuit" in the Car...
Bangla Press Desk: Southeast Asian foreign ministers meet in Malaysia on Monday, seeking to end border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia that have killed at least 40 people and displaced more than half a million this month.The minist...
Noman Sabit: Thanks to a number of changes to the tax code under the One Big Beautiful Bill, Trump administration officials are projecting Americans will enjoy the largest tax refund ever in 2026.Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Smith (R-...
Bangla Press Desk: Jabal Al-Lawz in the Tabuk region of Saudi Arabia witnessed on Wednesday heavy snowfall, accompanied by fog covering the highlands, as well as strong winds. There was a significant drop in temperatures, reaching as low...
Bangla Press Desk: Unknown gunmen killed 10 people and wounded 10 others in a shooting at a township near Johannesburg, police said Sunday.The motive for the shooting at Bekkersdal, 40 kilometres (25 miles) southwest of the city, was also...
Bangla Press Desk: Vladimir Putin is ready to talk with France's Emmanuel Macron over the war in Ukraine, the Russian president's spokesman said in an interview published Sunday.Putin has "expressed readiness to engage in dialogue with Ma...
Bangla Press Desk: North Korea said on Sunday that Japan's nuclear ambitions "must be prevented at any cost", after a Tokyo official reportedly suggested the country should possess atomic weapons.Pyongyang's reaction came after the unname...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump has nominated a new head of US forces in Latin America, according to a statement Friday, after an admiral stepped down from the role early.Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth announced in the statement that...
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Ukrainian drones on Friday hit the Filanovsky oil rig, which belongs to Russia's Lukoil LKOH.MM, and a military patrol ship near a rig in the Caspian Sea, Ukraine's general staff said on Saturday.BP/SP
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