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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: A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck off western Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Thursday (27 November), the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.The quake struck at 4.56 am, with a depth of 25.4 kilometers (15.7 miles), 45 km (27.9 m...
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Bangla Press Desk: A surprise US plan to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine stunned Kyiv and Europe last week, as they viewed it as echoing Russia's demands.Over the weekend, officials from the United States, Ukraine and Europe scrambled a...
Bangla Press Desk: The death toll from the five-alarm fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has risen to 44, including one firefighter, authorities confirmed on Thursday.The fire also left 300 more miss...
Ema Alice: President Trump’s criminal prosecution in Georgia suddenly moved to its end Wednesday, as the prosecutor who recently took over the case announced he will not move forward with it.Pete Skandalakis, the executive director of Georgia’s Prose...
Noman Sabit: New filings by the Justice Department (DOJ) say it was Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem who made the decision to rebuff a court order by transferring more than 100 Venezuelan men to Salvadoran custody to be imprisoned.The di...
Bangla Press Desk: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday the "principles" of a revised US plan to end the war with Russia could lead to "deeper agreements" and that "much depends" on Washington.An original US plan to end almost four...
Bangla Press Desk: At least four people were killed when a fire engulfed several high-rise blocks in a Hong Kong residential estate on Wednesday, the government said, with media reporting that some residents were trapped inside.Massive flames took ho...
Bangla Press Desk: Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a failed coup, after he exhausted all appeals.The brash former army captain who fired up Br...
Bangla Press Desk: Afghanistan's Taliban government vowed Tuesday to "respond appropriately" to overnight strikes it blamed on neighbouring Pakistan that killed 10 people, as tensions spiked the day after a suicide bombing in a Pakistani city.A...
Bangla Press Desk: Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said his government will propose $40 billion in additional defence spending over several years, as the democratic island seeks to deter a potential Chinese invasion.Taiwan has ramped up defen...
Noman Sabit: Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for libel. He estimates his damages as anywhere from $1 billion to $5 billion.He claims the BBC made “false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements” about him in a documentary publi...
Bangla Press Desk: The Trump administration announced on Monday that it was ending temporary protections shielding immigrants from Myanmar from deportation from the United States.The move affects around 4,000 people from the Southeast Asian na...
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