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A Dhaka court on Sunday issued a warrant for the arrest of 169 BNP leaders and activists, including its chairperson's adviser Amanullah Aman, in a violence case filed in 2017. Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Kazi Md Ashrafuzzaman passed…
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George H.W. Bush, who in one term as president reasserted the U.S. as the world's lone superpower, rallying an international coalition against Iraq's Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War and presiding over the fall of the Berlin Wall and…
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US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in relation to the Russia inquiry. Cohen admitted misleading lawmakers on talks during the presidential race about a Trump property deal in…
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Kenyan police have fired warning shots at anti-corruption officers to help two colleagues accused of bribery to escape from detention, Kenya's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) said. The detained officers were being…
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A polio vaccine that can be stored as a dried powder at room temperature is a new opportunity to help eradicate the disease, researchers at the University of Southern California say. The vaccines usually require a cool and stable…
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stressed there is "no military solution", after Ukraine's leader urged Nato to send ships to the Sea of Azov. Petro Poroshenko's request came following a naval confrontation with Russia in waters off…
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There has been outrage in India after the management of a shopping centre in the eastern city of Kolkata told a mum wanting to breastfeed her baby not to do such "home chores" in the centre. The comments were made on Facebook after the…
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Kenyan police have fired warning shots at anti-corruption officers to help two colleagues accused of bribery to escape from detention, Kenya's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) said. The detained officers were being investigated…
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People of African descent are facing "widespread and entrenched prejudice and exclusion" across the European Union, a study suggests. Race-related violence, discriminatory police profiling, and discrimination in the search for jobs and…
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U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday claimed that a lawyer for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who is currently on trial in Brooklyn federal court, helped arrange unauthorized contact between the accused Mexican drug lord and his wife, Emma Coronel.…
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