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A satellite image shows Hurricane Milton progressing before its expected landfall in Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico October 8, 2024. Photo: CIRA/NOAA/Handout via REUTERS

Hurricane Milton: What's a Category 5 storm and why is it so dangerous?

Category 5 Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall in Florida over the next 24 hours

Cars sit in traffic as they flee the southern villages amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes, in Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. Photo: Mohammed Zaatari / AP

What to know about the growing conflict between Israel and Lebanon

Illustration: TBS

Rumours run amok in the first hours of newfound freedom

Illustration: TBS

The three reasons stated by govt for banning Jammat-Shibir

A Julian Assange supporter holds a sign. London, Britain, March 26, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Toby Melville

Who is Julian Assange, founder of secret-spilling website WikiLeaks?

A recent IIT-Delhi study found Kolkata to be the second cleanest city among the 11 metropolitan cities in the world in terms of PM2.5 concentration. Dhaka, as usual, came out as the worst. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, Rajib Dhar

What Dhaka can learn from Kolkata on cleaning up its air

File Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain/TBS

How extreme heat threatens health and safety

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un visit the Vostochny Сosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, September 13, 2023. Photo: Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo

Why Putin may visit North Korea

Russian and US state flags fly in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, Russia March 27, 2019. Photo: Reuters

What next after new US sanctions on Russia's financial system?

Palestinians put out a fire at the site of an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced people, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 27, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

What is the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict?

FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, 3 January 2023. Atef Safadi/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Why ICC prosecutor seeking arrest warrant against Netanyahu and what it means for Israel

People attend an anti-draft demonstration to protest the Vietnam War, in Central Park, New York City, US, in 1968. Library of Congress/Bernard Gotfryd/Handout via REUTERS/ File Photo

How US campus protests over Gaza differ from Vietnam war era

Shivaraj N, a sub-inspector in Tamil Nadu police signs his declaration form before casting his vote at a polling station a day ahead of the first phase of the election, in Tiruvannamalai, India, April 18, 2024. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

India's Lok Sabha election 2024: What are the key issues?