Probashbangla24 Desk : A top US official in the fight against so-called Islamic State group has quit over President Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops from Syria. Brett McGurk, the US special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat IS, brought his departure forward from February. Before Mr Trump’s announcement he had insisted that the…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : At least 13 people died when violent rainstorms turned rivers into raging torrents in southwest France on Monday, prompting some of the deadliest flooding in years, officials said. The equivalent of three months of rainfall was dumped overnight in the Aude region in just a few hours, swelling rivers and flooding…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : US President Donald Trump believes that he is “being very tough” in personal talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the American leader said in an interview with CBS television channel. Asked why Trump never had a harsh word for Vladimir Putin publicly, the US president answered that “you don’t know what…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A small plane has crashed in the central Germany, killing three people. The single-engine Cessna hit a group of people clustered by an airfield on Wasserkuppe mountain near the town of Fulda in Hesse state on Sunday. The plane was reportedly trying to gain height after a failed landing and crashed through…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : European Union is providing EUR 80,000 (Tk7.84 million) humanitarian assistance for the most affected people in the collapse of the Padma River embankment in Shariatpur distirct. The affected people will get the assistance through Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS). The BDRCS will distribute shelter tool kits including tarpaulins among those who have…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Flash floods have killed at least five people in southwest France, with roads swept away and rivers overflowing as the equivalent of several months of rain fell overnight in the space of hours, an official said Monday. Alain Thirion, the prefect of the Aude region, gave the death toll in a phone…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A Bulgarian man has been detained in Germany over the rape and murder of television journalist Viktoria Marinova, officials said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said journalists in Bulgaria had total freedom to write and report. The suspect was arrested on Tuesday at the request of Bulgaria, Interior Minister Mladen…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Bulgarian authorities are investigating the rape and murder of an investigative reporter in the northern city of Ruse, the third journalist to have been killed in the EU this year. The body of 30-year-old Viktoria Marinova was found on Saturday near a pedestrian alley in an area with heavy vegetation, Bulgarian state…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Pro-Russia Serb leader Milorad Dodik won a race to fill the Serb seat in Bosnia’s three-member presidency Sunday, deepening ethnic divisions in the country that faced a brutal war some 25 years ago. Preliminary official results from the election gave Dodik 56 percent of the vote and his main opponent, Mladen Ivanic,…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Britain would be welcomed into the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal with “open arms” after it leaves the EU, Japan’s prime minister has said. While the UK would lose its role as a gateway to Europe after Brexit, it would retain its “global strength”, Shinzo Abe told the Financial Times. He also urged…