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July 2020

Amazon: TikTok removal email ‘sent in error’

GBNEWS24DESK// Amazon has said an email sent to employees asking them to remove the video-sharing app TikTok from any mobile device that can access their company email was sent in error. An internal memo sent to staff earlier on Friday…

Sahara Khatun’s body reaches Dhaka; janaza at 11am

GBNEWS24DESK// The body of Awami League Presidium member and of former home minister Advocate Sahara Khatun reached Dhaka from Thailand at early hours of Saturday. A special flight of US Bangla Airlines, carrying the body, reached…

Australia’s Melbourne begins new shutdown

GBNEWS24DESK// Five million Australians in the country's second-largest city Melbourne woke up under strict stay-at-home rules on Thursday (July 9) as the authorities struggle to contain a coronavirus outbreak in the city. Three…

Statue of Melania Trump set on fire in Slovenia

GBNEWS24DESK// A wooden sculpture of US first lady Melania Trump was torched near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, on the night of July Fourth, as Americans celebrated US Independence Day, said the artist who commissioned the sculpture.…

UK to reopen visa centres in Bangladesh from July 12

GBNEWS24DESK// The United Kingdom is going to reopen visa application centres in Bangladesh in phases from July12, the British High Commission in Dhaka said in an announcement on Wednesday. British High Commissioner Robert Dickson, in…

Journalist Rashid Un Nabi Babu passes away

GBNEWS24DESK// Senior journalist AKM Rashid Un Nabi Babu passed away on Wednesday night at a hospital in the capital. He was 64. Confirming the matter, his colleagues said that the veteran journalist breathed his last at 8:25 pm at the…

Brazil President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

GBNEWS24DESK// Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he tested positive for the novel coronavirus, adding in a television interview that he was in good health despite running a fever. The right-wing populist, who has played…

UN: US will leave WHO

GBNEWS24DESK// The United States will leave the World Health Organisation (WHO) on July 6, 2021, the United Nations said on Tuesday, after receiving notification of the decision by President Donald Trump, who has accused the agency of…

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