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Divers on Wednesday recovered the remains of two of the six workers missing since they were tossed into Baltimore Harbor from a highway bridge that collapsed into shipping lanes when a faltering cargo freighter rammed into the structure, officials said on Wednesday. The bodies were pulled from the mouth of the Patapsco River a day after the massive container ship ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   Renowned mountaineer and Everest conqueror Akke Rahman has set his sights on a daring new expedition to scale 14 of the world’s highest peaks, aiming to raise £1.5 million for humanitarian causes, including aiding the distressed in Palestine’s Gaza. Spearheaded by the UK-based international humanitarian organisation, the UK Islamic Mission (UKIM), Akke’s ambitious campaign seeks to ...

Facing a total of 88 felony charges in four separate federal and state cases, Donald Trump is employing a simple tactic that has always served him well in the past — running out the clock. The 77-year-old Republican presidential candidate has deployed an army of highly paid lawyers in New York, Washington, Georgia and Florida to push back his trial ...

The United Nations Security Council has passed the resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages as the United States abstained from the vote. The remaining 14 council members voted for the resolution on Monday. Speaking after the vote, US ambassador to the UN ...

Fourteen people were killed and 37 others injured after a bus crashed inside an expressway tunnel in northern China, state media reported today. The accident occurred shortly after 2:30 pm local time (0630 GMT) Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing local authorities in Shanxi province. The bus, which was carrying 51 people, rammed into the tunnel’s interior wall, the report ...

Donald Trump faced having assets seized in a humiliating blow to his carefully cultivated image as a self-made tycoon as his lawyers acknowledged Monday he doesn’t have the cash to appeal a $464 million fine for fraudulently inflating his wealth. Trump — the Republican candidate for November’s US presidential election –intends to challenge the judgment imposed by a New York civil court in February, ...

Russian voters started to hit the polls for the 2024 presidential election in the Far East region, including Kamchatka, Chukotka and other areas at 8 am Friday local time. Four candidates will vie for the top position: Leonid Slutsky of the Liberal Democratic Party, Nikolai Kharitonov of the Russian Communist Party, Vladislav Davankov of the New People Party, and Vladimir ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee suffered major injuries to her forehead, the party informed through a post on X, reports ndtv.com. The All India Trinamool Congress shared photos of Ms Banerjee on a hospital bed with a deep cut in the middle of her forehead and blood on her face. Sources said the Chief Minister suffered a fall at ...

India’s government has announced plans to enact a controversial citizenship law that has been criticised for being anti-Muslim. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will allow non-Muslim religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to seek citizenship. The authorities say it will help those facing persecution. The law was passed in 2019 – sparking mass protests in which scores of people ...

Pakistani lawmakers on Saturday elected Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of center-left Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), as the country’s 14th president, report agencies. Zardari, 68, the widower of the two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the candidate of the ruling coalition, defeated Mahmood Khan Achakzai, a veteran politician from the southwestern Balochistan province, and a candidate of the opposition Sunni ...