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Source: BBCBangla.com | মূল পাতা

US stocks declined in a volatile session on Friday but were able to partially recover from a sharp drop spurred by news the FBI will review more emails related to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private email use.
The US election is scheduled to take place in 11 days, on Nov. 8.
The benchmark S&P 500 index [...]

Lithuania has updated its civil defence booklet telling citizens what to do in the event of a Russian invasion.
It includes large sections on survival techniques and warns that Russia would not hesitate to use military force against its neighbours.
Tens of thousands of copies of the 75-page guide have been distributed.
The government has also launched a [...]

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a transgender rights case which could determine whether schools let students use bathrooms based on gender identity.
The case concerns a Virginia public school district trying to prevent a female-born 17-year-old transgender student from using the boys' bathroom.
The justices are expected to rule on the case before the [...]

A construction worker was electrocuted at Ghoshbag in Ashulia area of Savar upazila on the outskirts of the capital on Friday night.
The deceased was identified as Mojaffar, son of Abdul Gafur Miah, a resident of Dimla upazila in Nilphamari district.
Sub-inspector of Ashulia Police Station Ahiduzzaman said Mojaffar came in contact with a live electric wire [...]

An American Airlines plane has caught fire on the runway of Chicago's O'Hare airport while taking off on Friday.
The Boeing 767 bound for Miami blew a tyre and damaged an engine, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said.
The pilot aborted the take-off and evacuated everyone on board via emergency chutes as black smoke billowed from the [...]

The FBI is investigating more emails as part of a probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email system, it said on Friday, in a new twist that could damage the Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential race, reports Reuters.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said in a letter to senior lawmakers that [...]

Two suspected robbers have died in a so-called gunfight with police in Kushtia's Mirpur.
The duo, killed early on Saturday, could not be identified immediately.
Mirpur Police Station OC Gazi Jalaluddin told the bdnews24.com they went to Gobindapur on hearing that a group was robbing people on Mirpur-Bherhamara road around 1:00am.
"Police came under bomb attack after reaching [...]

A farmer, who was injured in a clash between two groups of people in Shailkupa upazila of the district on October 20 over a trivial matter, died at Faridpur Medical College Hospital on Friday.
The deceased was identified as Jahangir Alam Sikder 38, a resident of Shapkhola village in the upazila.
Officer-in-charge of Shailkupa Police Station Tariqul [...]

A row over jurisdiction has stalled the creation of an authority to administer skills improvement to support country's productive and development activities on a higher scale, officials said.
Two key ministries, they said, are at loggerheads over the matter. The tussle between finance ministry's finance division and the ministry of labour and employment has generated frustration [...]