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Russia and US bid to end diplomatic row
currentnews.com.bd: Moscow demands US return seized mansions Russia has been pressing demands that the US give it access to two diplomatic compounds seized in the US last year. After high-level talks between More...
Venezuela opposition calls nationwide strike against Maduro
currentnews.com.bd: Venezuela’s opposition called a nationwide strike for Thursday to press President Nicolas Maduro to back off a rewriting of the constitution, ratcheting up tensions after an unofficial More...
9-year-old boy among 11 killed in Chicago shootings
currentnews.com.bd: The two were among 56 shot in the period between Friday afternoon and Monday morning, which keeps a running tally of the runaway shootings A weekend of bloodshed in Chicago left 11 people dead, More...
UN paints grim picture of health, food security
currentnews.com.bd: ROHINGYA CRISIS in MYANMAR A recent report released by the World Food Programme (WFP), the food assistance branch of the United Nations, has painted a grim picture of health and food security More...
Woman killed as Venezuelans vote in opposition referendum
currentnews.com.bd: Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans lined up across the country and in expatriate communities around the world Sunday to vote in a symbolic rejection of president Nicolas Maduro’s plan More...
5-year-old girl, soldier killed in Pakistan firing
currentnews.com.bd: The Indian Army reserved the right to retaliate as all ceasefire violations were initiated by Pakistan, India said, adding it wanted peace along the de facto border A five-year-old girl and More...
Arundhati Roy releases first novel in 20 years
currentnews.com.bd: Arundhati Roy’s eagerly-awaited second novel goes on sale Tuesday, two decades after her prize-winning debut “The God of Small Things” propelled her to global fame and launched More...
Pakistan launches offensive against IS near Afghan border
currentnews.com.bd: Pakistan’s military says it has launched a major operation against so-called Islamic State in the north-western region along the Afghan border. A spokesman said militants had gained ground More...
Mamata offended at Hindu extremists insulting Hasina
currentnews.com.bd: The West Bengal chief minister sent a letter to the BJP government in Delhi complaining about a right wing group burning Sheikh Hasina’s effigy Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of the More...
India votes for next president from lowest Dalit caste
Narendra Modi votes in the 2017 Presidential election currentnews.com.bd: The result will be announced Thursday Indian lawmakers voted Monday to pick the country’s president, who is certain to come from More...
