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EPZ stuff bus set afire in Cumilla

Shawdesh desk: Miscreants set fire on a stuff bus of Cumilla EPZ early Thursday while it was parked on the side of the road. The incident happened around 4:30 am

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Putin visits Saudi Arabia, UAE on Middle East tour

Shawdesh Desk: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Saudi Arabia Wednesday after visiting the United Arab Emirates, making a rare trip abroad as Moscow seeks to reassert itself on the

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Israel weighs plan to flood Gaza tunnels with seawater

Shawdesh desk: Israel has assembled a system of large pumps it could use to flood Hamas’s vast network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip with seawater, a tactic that could

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Putin to visit Saudi Arabia and UAE, host of COP28 climate talks

Shawdesh desk: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday will visit both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as Dubai hosts the United Nations’ COP28 climate talks — despite facing

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Kenyan among 17 killed in Philippines bus crash

Shawdesh desk: Seventeen people, including a Kenyan national, died when a passenger bus careered off a road on a “killer curve” and plunged down a mountain in the central Philippines,

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US imposes visa restriction policy for undermining democracy in Zimbabwe

Shawdesh desk: The United States has imposed visa restriction policy for ‘undermining democracy in Zimbabwe’ over the African country’s August 2023 general election. US secretary of state Antony J Blinken

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Israel says ‘not trying to move anybody’ out of Palestine

Shawdesh desk: Israel said Monday it was not seeking to force Palestinian civilians to permanently leave their homes, even as it acknowledged conditions in the besieged Gaza Strip were “tough”.

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3 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza fighting, toll reaches 75

Shawdesh desk; The Israeli army said Monday three more soldiers had been killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip, raising the number of troop deaths there to 75 since the

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